Senior Network Backend Engineer

Role Overview

• Own Backend Services and APIs
• Lead design, implementation, and optimization of backend services that power the RTK Corrections Network and customer-facing APIs.
• Build and evolve API-first services that are clear, well-documented, and reliable for internal and external developers.
• Break down high-level goals into concrete tasks, schedules, and milestones, and hold yourself accountable for delivering against them.
• Drive performance and efficiency improvements across the request path
• latency, throughput, and cost.
• Ensure the service stack is well-structured, maintainable, and built to last as the product and customer base grow.
• Scale the RTK Corrections Network
• Own the ingestion, processing, and distribution of GNSS correction data from reference stations to devices in the field.
• Design streaming and connectivity paths (e.g., NTRIP and similar protocols) that deliver corrections reliably and at low latency.
• Expand network capacity and coverage as new regions, stations, and customers come online.
• Build Reliable Distributed Systems
• Design for high availability, graceful degradation, and recovery under partial failure.
• Own observability
• metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
• so issues are caught and resolved before customers feel them.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks and reliability risks early, particularly as traffic and scale grow.
• Respond to Customer and Market Challenges
• Engage directly with evolving customer needs and translate them into well-designed, durable technical solutions.
• Collaborate with embedded, firmware, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams to deliver reliable end-to-end systems.
• Surface technical risks and tradeoffs early so architecture and delivery decisions reflect real-world constraints.
• Own Testing and Verification
• Design and maintain rigorous testing strategies across backend services and the correction pipeline.
• Treat test coverage as a first-class engineering responsibility
• ensuring the team and customers have confidence in every release.
• Identify gaps in coverage proactively, particularly as new services, protocols, or customer configurations are added.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software development, with significant depth in backend or distributed systems.
• Proven ability to design, build, and operate production backend services and APIs at scale
• from architecture through deployment and on-call ownership.
• Proven ability to decompose high-level goals into actionable tasks, realistic schedules, and clear milestones
• with a track record of delivering on commitments.
• Strong proficiency in a backend language such as Go, Java, or Python.
• Deep understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, TLS, HTTP) and experience building low-latency, high-throughput services.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems
• availability, scaling, and observability.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar), containers, and CI/CD.
• Experience designing and owning testing and verification strategies for complex systems.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Google Cloud Platform
• Java
• Python
• TCP/IP
• Go

Benefits

• Offers Equity