Application Engineer

Job description

Company is helping an on-demand, autonomous ride-hailing company find an Application Engineer to design, develop, and maintain internal applications, integrations, and backend systems that support critical business operations.

In this role, you'll build and enhance internal tools and applications supporting physical product design, manufacturing, logistics, and inventory workflows. You'll help improve system architecture, data integrity, scalability, and security while collaborating cross-functionally to deliver reliable and efficient internal platforms.

The ideal candidate is technically strong, collaborative, customer-focused, and experienced developing scalable backend applications within fast-paced engineering environments.



As an Application Engineer, you'll:

• Design, develop, and maintain internal applications, backend services, integrations, and automation scripts primarily using Python.
• Develop applications supporting product design, manufacturing, logistics, inventory, and operational workflows.
• Design and implement APIs and backend services using technologies such as GraphQL and REST.
• Deploy and manage cloud infrastructure resources using Terraform and AWS services.
• Contribute to frontend development efforts using JavaScript, React, and TypeScript as needed.
• Define system requirements and architecture standards for new and existing applications.
• Implement security best practices and improve consistency, scalability, and data integrity across internal platforms.
• Support major application deployments, upgrades, and ongoing maintenance activities.
• Review peer code and contribute across multiple internal repositories and engineering initiatives.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to gather requirements, support users, and improve application workflows and tooling.

Ideal candidate profile

Bonus Qualifications : Experience with developing internal business applications Experience supporting physical product design, manufacturing, logistics, or inventory systems In-depth knowledge of Linux systems Experience supporting physical product design, manufacturing, logistics, or inventory systems Exposure to bill of material management and data integrity Experience with authentication, authorization methods and access control.

Daily tasks


At Company you'll design, create, and maintain internal processes, integrations, and applications. You'll develop back-end components to improve existing applications and implement security best practices to existing applications all while creating standards to improve existing architecture to ensure consistency across internal applications and data integrity. You'll also develop applications supporting physical product design, manufacturing, logistics, and inventory systems while driving the design and architecture of internal applications.

Required skills

Responsibilities: Design, create, and maintain processes, integrations, applications and scripts, mostly on the backend with Python Deploy cloud resources mostly with Terraform Some frontend (JS, React, Typescript) Design system requirements for new and existing applications Create and implement company-wide tools and methodologies Oversee, and often perform, major application installations and upgrades Develop applications supporting physical product design, manufacturing, logistics, and inventory systems Review peer code Contribute to many internal git repositories

Business driver of role

Qualifications: Strong knowledge of Python and web frameworks such as Flask and Django API development experience in Python (graphql, REST) Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB) Understanding of ORM (object-relational mapping) libraries such as SQLAlchemy Excellent python coding skills and understanding of python best practices Cloud (AWS) development and deployment experience General frontend development knowledge (React, TypeScript) Good communication skills, and ability to collect requirements from customers Great customer service skills as it relates to application support and training Experience with docker or similar container based systems