# Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Ride and Fleet Services

**Company:** [Zoox](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zoox)
**Location:** Foster City, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $219k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Kotlin, Java, REST APIs, SQL, Kubernetes, Docker, Spring Boot, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Kafka
**Posted:** 2026-01-12

> 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.

## Job Description

# 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**

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