Senior Backend Software Engineer

Senior Backend Software Engineer - Paren Canada

Paren tracked over 100 million public fast charging sessions in the U.S. in 2024 and expects over 1 billion charging sessions by 2030 at which time a projected 7.5% of vehicles in operation will be battery powered. Access to rich data sets, including EV charging station reliability, is key to realizing this expansion. As a neutral platform, Paren synthesizes fragmented data across the ecosystem into a unified model, addressing the limitations of closed-loop systems, and enabling more powerful applications to be built on top of our datasets.

Our solutions are designed to empower automakers, map makers, fleet operators, and other enterprise customers to elevate the EV driver experience. With a $3M Seed Round led by San Francisco’s Base10 Partners, we are now expanding our team to support our growth.

Paren is based out of the San Francisco Bay Area and has recently opened a new office in Quebec, Canada. Learn more about culture, values and benefits on our website.

Opportunity - Senior Backend Software Engineer

Required Experience

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer building real-time data capture and analysis systems with a focus on performance, scalability, security, and reliability.
• Strong expertise in Golang and backend architecture.
• Strong SQL and NoSQL experience (Column base database or other analytics-oriented databases).
• Experience designing and developing REST API infrastructure.
• Write and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure system reliability.
• Enjoys analyzing distributed systems and the impact that design choices have on their reliability, availability, and performance.
• Comfortable working in a fully distributed team environment
• Strong English language reading and writing skills

Preferred Experience / Additional Qualifications

• Experience in distributed systems
• Ability to read and understand Python code
• Experience with MySQL and Redis
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana/Opensearch, or similar)
• Experience with CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Terraform, ansible
• Experienced working with any cloud provider such as AWS, GCP or Azure

Working At Paren

As we push the boundaries of electric mobility, we welcome bold and analytical minds to make a difference. Our values are our driving force: Growth and innovation, empowerment, collaboration, reliability and trust.

Benefits

Because a great workplace is about more than just coffee and snacks. At Paren, we believe in providing benefits that truly make a difference in your life, both inside and outside the office. Here are some of the benefits and perks currently offered to our team members:

• Location: Work from our office in Quebec or work from home
• Flexible workplace policy: Our policy allows anyone to work from the office or remotely within a reasonable time zone. Want to explore the other side of the world? No problem. At Paren, you can take up to 2 weeks to work from anywhere in the world!
• Health care benefits: We offer top tier coverage for health, dental, vision, and life insurance. We cover it all for our employees and have a generous policy to cover family members.
• Paid vacations: From day one, each team member receives personal days and accrues personal time off. We encourage everyone to take time off and recharge. We also observe a one-week soft close policy during the winter holidays.
• Your choice of equipment: We will get you the best laptop, monitor, and accessories to run all your apps lightning fast!
• Electrify your commute: Of course, we’re all about moving around powered by electricity. We subsidize your lease of an electric vehicle. You don’t need a car? We’ll subsidize your e-bike too!
• Annual retreat: Throughout the year, you will get a chance to connect with our team members, and once a year, we’ll all unplug for a few days for a retreat. Our next retreat will take place this April in Mexico!

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected.