Senior Back-End Engineer

Byterat (YC W23) is the modern cloud platform for battery data analytics in R&D and production. Byterat directly synchronizes data from lab hardware to the cloud and analyzes it to unlock hidden insights connecting design to performance.

OUR MISSION

• Batteries play a fundamental role in tackling climate change. $73B was invested in US battery plants in 2022, and battery company revenue is expected to grow >5x over the next decade.
• Global carmakers alone are forecast to spend $515B on electric vehicle and battery R&D by 2030. But battery engineers are currently underserved by software, relying on broken legacy products to analyze their data.
• Byterat solves this problem with a modern cloud platform that allows teams to analyze data from thousands of parallel experiments and unlock previously hidden insights connecting battery design to performance.

THE ROLE

• You will have the autonomy to design/implement cornerstones of the Byterat platform, spanning from backend infrastructure for data analysis, to statistical models to correlate battery design with performance.
• You'll also be helping to shape an exceptional engineering culture at Byterat and cultivate practices that will set us up for success.

WHO YOU ARE

• 3+ years software engineering experience, ideally in a “start-up” like environment where you have taken full ownership for projects and taken products from 0-1 and 1-10.
• You care about the problems our customers face and are excited to distil their insights into tangible product improvements.
• You are excited to move and grow fast, take ownership and challenge yourself in ways that are hard to replicate at other places.

WHO YOU'LL BE JOINING

• Penny: PhD in Physics from Cambridge, worked on ML models to analyze battery data and forecast performance.
• Shashank: Stanford CS, formerly AWS
• Enrique: Carnegie Mellon CS, formerly Rivian

OUR CURRENT TECH STACK

• Django with heavy tasks on Lambda.
• Next.js on TypeScript.
• Docker compose for dev, AWS and Terraform for staging / prod.

• Intro call with a founder to get to know each other.
• Coding challenge: we've distilled our platform to ~1k loc; the challenge is to tell us what the distilled platform does and implement a new feature. We usually run this as a take home assignment, though we can be flexible and run live instead. Once you’ve completed the challenge, we’ll discuss your solution and approach to system design.
• Meet our team (anyone you haven't met already in the previous rounds). We're looking for signals on how you'll complement our entire team, in terms of culture and technical strengths.
• Reference check
• Offer!