Technical Lead, Organic User Growth

Why join Jerry?

• Join a pre-IPO startup with capital, traction and runway ($240M funded | 40X revenue growth in 4 years | $2T market size)

• Work closely with brilliant leaders and team mates who have scaled companies like Nvidia, Better, Nerdwallet, Wayfair, Sofi, etc.

• Disrupt a massive market and take us to a $5B business in the next few years

• Be immersed in a talent-dense environment and greatly accelerate your career growth

About the opportunity:

At Jerry, we are building the first AllCar™ super app to help people optimize all aspects of owning a car, an essential expense that costs the average person more than 20% of their income every year. We started with insurance in 2019, and since then we’ve launched loan refinancing, real-time driving insights, car diagnostics, repair marketplace, and a GPT-4 chatbot.

We have aggressive goals to scale our business and grow from 5M to 50M users by 2030, and we need a Technical Lead to lead our small and mighty organic user growth team! You will be the main creator for a powerful backend system and site architecture that will support our ability to dominate search engines, publish mass amounts of articles, and drive our organic traffic. With your guidance, we can reach customers all over the United States and make Jerry a household name. Optimization and speed are your domains, and you will stop at nothing to ensure that code quality across our product is exemplary. Driving innovation in a $2T market is no easy feat but if you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

What you'll do:

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers to help them excel in their roles by continuously providing guidance and feedback

• Proactively resolve or mitigate technical gaps that may negatively impact our SEO metrics like crawlability, site speed, etc.

• Collaborate with PMs, designers, data scientists, and other stakeholders to ensure best SEO practices and optimize for performance and speed

• Be the gatekeeper for code quality by ensuring scalability, readability, and performance

• Foster a culture of continuous learning and growth by sharing knowledge and ideas

Who you are:

• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, engineering, or a related field

• 5+ years of experience in software development and 1.5+ years of experience in people management (preferred)

• Hold an exceptionally high bar for code efficiency and quality

• Have a strong sense of urgency, ownership, and accountability

Our technical stack:

• Language and frameworks: Typescript: Nest.js, Next.js, React, React Native, Expo

• API: GraphQL

• DB: Postgres, DynamoDB, Clickhouse, Redis

• Infrastructure: Built on AWS, microservice architecture with containerized services deployed on ECS and EKS. Asynchronous processing functions running on Lambda

Jerry is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, reproductive health decisions or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other characteristics protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.

Jerry is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at recruiting@getjerry.com

About Jerry:

Jerry is America’s first and only AllCar™ app. We are redefining and radically improving how people manage owning a car, one of their most expensive and time-consuming assets. 

Backed by artificial intelligence and machine learning, Jerry simplifies and automates owning and maintaining a car while providing personalized services for all car owners' needs. We spend every day innovating and improving our AI-powered app to provide the best possible experience for our customers. From car insurance and financing to maintenance and safety, Jerry does it all.

We are the #1 rated and most downloaded app in our category with a 4.7 star rating in the App Store. We have more than 4 million customers — and we’re just getting started. 

Jerry was founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneurs and has raised more than $242 million in financing.

Join our team and work with passionate, curious and egoless people who love solving real-world problems. Help us build a revolutionary product that’s disrupting a massive market.