Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Ride and Fleet Services

The role

You will lead the development and scaling of cloud services and APIs that handle ride hailing for Zoox's robotaxi service. Your work covers dispatch, routing, payments, mobile APIs, telemetry and service metrics.

What you will do

• Design and build scalable, efficient and robust backend systems for the ride-hailing service
• Own core functionality such as payments, fleet dispatch and service management
• Make significant contributions to technical roadmaps and development plans and execute on them
• Uphold engineering excellence through design review, code review, software testing and documentation

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of cloud software experience
• Experience running and optimizing production-grade systems for efficiency and resilience
• Extensive experience with design, implementation and operation of backend microservices
• Proficiency with Kotlin or Java, REST APIs and SQL
• Experience running production services on cloud infrastructure such as Kubernetes and Docker

Nice to have

• Experience with Spring Boot based microservice architectures, PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch
• Experience in transportation, robotics, logistics or autonomous vehicles
• Experience with event driven architecture and Kafka

Before you apply

• You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply

About the company

Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem to bring it to market. It works at the intersection of robotics, machine learning and design, aiming to provide next-generation mobility-as-a-service in urban environments.