Staff Software Engineer, Backend

The role

You will own and drive products from design to development to testing to production. You will work with product managers to propose technical solutions, manage projects for junior engineers, and report on impact.

What you will do

• Own and drive products from design to development to testing to production
• Work with product managers to understand user needs
• Propose technical solutions
• Structure and manage projects for junior engineers
• Report on impact

Required qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience
• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience designing and leading the implementation of new platform features and services, including their deployment in AWS
• 3+ years experience supporting business-critical services in production
• Experience developing backend services in Go or strong fluency in a comparable ecosystem like Python, Java, Rust, or C++
• 3+ years strong SQL database fundamentals
• 2+ years experience with message queue & pub/sub frameworks such as Kafka or RabbitMQ

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes resources & Helm charts
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with Typescript
• Experience working in a startup environment
• Experience developing backend services in Go

About the company

Coco is a venture-backed, Series A stage startup that operates hundreds of sidewalk robots across Los Angeles. The company is dedicated to perfecting the last-mile delivery experience through robotics.