archer56 · San Jose, California, United States
Skills: AWS
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Archer is a leader in the next-gen aerospace sector building an end-to-end advanced air mobility platform that delivers air taxis, unmanned aircraft systems (“UAS”), aviation-related physical artificial intelligence (“AI”) solutions, and other technologies to customers worldwide across the commercial aerospace and defense sectors. Our sights are set high and our problems are hard, and we believe that diversity in the workplace is what makes us smarter, drives better insights, and will ultimately lift us all to success. We are dedicated to cultivating an equitable and inclusive environment that embraces our differences, and supports and celebrates all of our team members. Archer is best known for Midnight, our electric aircraft — this role isn't on that program. The AI Products Org builds consumer software for the general aviation industry. There's a lot we're not ready to talk about publicly yet, so this posting stays vague on purpose. What we can say: the products are real, they ship, and people use them every day. As a Lead Backend Engineer here, you'd own the backend behind a mature consumer product, one that's been featured in the app stores multiple times and has a large, loyal user base on iOS and Android. The backend handles high-volume, real-time data and serves both the apps and a commercial API with paying customers. It works. It has also been around a while, and it's moving to new infrastructure and you'd lead that migration. What You’ll Actually Do: Own the backend end to end: architecture, reliability, cost, on-call, and its roadmap Migrate the existing production stack to new infrastructure without users or API customers noticing. Plan it, sequence it, and know when to roll back Learn the current system well before replacing any of it. Some of it is worth keeping Design and build what comes next: new data pipelines, new APIs, and the backend for features that don't exist yet Keep the commercial API fast, sta…
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