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ZooxZooxFoster City, CA

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.

219k – 300k/yr
On-site8+ YOEFullstack Engineering

About the role

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

KotlinJavaREST APIsSQLKubernetesDockerSpring BootPostgresElasticsearchKafka
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