Backend Engineer

Avionyx S.A. is a software engineering services company based in Heredia, Costa Rica, fully owned by Joby Aviation in Santa Cruz, CA. As an AS-9100D company and in business since 1989, Avionyx provides expert, high-quality, full-lifecycle avionics software and hardware engineering services for eVTOL/UAM, rotorcraft and fixed wing aircraft, complying with the most rigorous software engineering standards in the world.

Avionyx is searching for a Backend Engineer. This engineer will be part of a software team that works closely with product management, design, frontend/mobile, and other backend team members to realize a brand-new suite of applications. The backend services will be building power applications for all parts of the customer and operational experience.

• Solve complex problems in the real world with scalable technical solutions
• Participate in team software processes such as requirement and test plan generation, design doc creation, code reviews and deployments
• Utilize simulation and validation techniques to verify your solutions meet the requirements
• Enjoy working collaboratively with PM and other teams to define specifications and build the next generation of products
• Understand how to design and implement highly horizontally-scalable architectures
• Dive deep into multiple tech stacks across the company to build integrated solutions
• Ability to research and learn new technologies and create a concept independently

• S. or M.S. Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of programming experience
• 3+ years of experience with relational databases and SQL/NoSQL
• 3+ years of experience with Java, Golang or a similar programming language
• Experience with web technologies and frameworks such as React & React Native, Spring and gRPC

• Experience handling sensitive customer data and logs
• Experience with real time data processing and streaming
• Experience in developing high traffic distributed web applications
• Experience with simulation technologies
• Experience with cloud environments as well as application deployment and scaling technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, docker, Firebase
• Are a pilot or have an interest in aviation and/or new transportation technology