Senior Software Developer - Fleet

About the role

SafelyYou’s mission is to empower safer, more person-centered care across senior living through advanced technology. Founded in 2015 by CEO George Netscher, SafelyYou originated from UC Berkeley’s Artificial Intelligence Research Lab and is dedicated to improving outcomes for residents, families, and communities.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend systems in Go to manage device registration, OTA updates, and configuration deployments
• Implement observability and alerting to ensure uptime and performance of our edge infrastructure
• Contribute to internal frontend tools when needed
• Bring strong fundamentals in Linux and networking to production debugging and design
• Drive technical decisions and help define the system architecture
• Partner closely with Product and Ops to align on priorities and operational readiness
• Participate in on-call rotation and uphold high standards of system reliability and SRM
• Mentor other engineers through code reviews and pairing
• Balance pragmatism and maintainability—knowing when to move fast and when to invest

Requirements

The ideal candidate should have:

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering (backend or infrastructure focus)
• Hands-on experience with Go or another modern backend language
• Experience designing distributed systems or working with microservices
• Comfortable navigating Linux and networking-level issues in production environments
• Familiarity with observability tooling and infrastructure-as-code concepts
• A strong communicator and collaborator, especially in a remote-first team
• Curious, humble, and passionate about building systems that last
• Previous experience mentoring others is a plus
• Comfortable making tradeoffs between velocity and maintainability

Qualifications

Qualifications include:

• Strong fundamentals in Linux and networking
• Experience with observability tooling and infrastructure-as-code concepts
• Ability to balance pragmatism and maintainability

Skills

Skills required include:

• Go programming language
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices
• Linux and networking troubleshooting
• Observability and alerting
• System architecture and design

Benefits

At SafelyYou, you can make a difference! We offer:

• A mission-driven company culture
• Full remote work
• Competitive salary and benefits, including fully paid employee premiums for Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Monthly Education, Well-being & WFH stipends
• Non-accrual PTO
• Growth Potential
• Company Retreats
• Medical & Family/Parental Leave

Pay

Competitive salary and benefits, including fully paid employee premiums for Medical, Dental, and Vision.

Schedule

Full-time position, with flexibility for remote work.