Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Ride and Fleet Services
Leads development and scaling of cloud services and APIs for ride-hailing in robotaxi service, owning payments, dispatch, and fleet management. Requires 8+ years cloud experience, backend microservices, Kotlin/Java, REST APIs, SQL, Kubernetes.
About the job
Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Ride and Fleet Services
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development and scaling of our cloud services and APIs that handle ride hailing for Zoox’s production-grade robotaxi service. These services include dispatch, routing, payments, mobile APIs, telemetry processing, service metrics and more.
In this role, you will:
- Design and build scalable, efficient, and robust backend systems for Zoox’s ride-hailing service
- Own core functionality such as payments, fleet dispatch, service management
- Make significant contributions to technical roadmaps, development plans and execute on them effectively
- Uphold engineering excellence by demonstrating best practices in software development including design review, code review, software testing and documentation
Qualifications
- 8+ years of cloud software experience
- Experience running and optimizing production-grade systems for maximum efficiency and resilience
- Extensive experience with the design, implementation and operation of backend microservices
- Proficiency with Kotlin or Java, REST APIs and SQL
- Experience running production services using cloud infrastructure such as Kubernetes and Docker
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience with Spring Boot based microservice architectures, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch
- Experience in transportation, robotics, logistics, or autonomous vehicles
- Experience with event driven architecture and Kafka
Skills
Kotlin, Java, REST APIs, SQL, Kubernetes, Docker, Spring Boot, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Kafka
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