Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend

What you’ll do

• Work with engineers & technical leaders across the company to ship interoperable products and systems on strong foundations that manage customer interactions inside and outside of the vehicle.
• Partner with cross-functional partners (from product and design) to produce how and when plans to support systems and product requirements. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
• Assess and recommend key tools and technology decisions that will power the digital product ecosystem. Influence decisions on build/buy/partner, contemplating today’s needs, and future enterprise requirements.
• Develop technology and best practices capable of supporting scalable, functional, and reliable software products and their associated integrations.
• Develop and lead the team to execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps. Design, code, deploy and operate technical architecture and systems.
• Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale, and taming complexity and shoring up reliability of existing systems.
• Champion software engineering and operational excellence, establishing and improving metrics and processes. Set a high bar for engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Assist in calibrating and developing the software engineering team.
• Recruit and manage a team of software engineers, setting the bar for quality software development.

Location & Travel Expectations

• This role will be based out of a Scout Motors location in Fremont, CA.
• The responsibilities of this role require attendance in the office with in-person meetings and events regularly.
• Applicants should expect that the role will require the ability to convene with Scout colleagues in person and travel to participate in events on behalf of the company from time to time.

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and scaling software products, providing technical leadership and direction for development, preferably with a focus on ecommerce, payments, digital products, and back-end platform development.
• Experience building comprehensive understanding of APIs, microservices, and other complex backend systems.
• Strong coding skills, navigating codebases with different languages (GoLang, Java, Kotlin and Swift) and tools, building and managing CI/CD pipelines supporting both web and mobile releases.
• Knowledge of potential system vulnerabilities and how to prevent them.
• Experience operating in start-up settings, launching 0 to 1 product, supporting early low-code tools, and driving graduation to highly customized applications.
• Experience as a technical lead for large projects (6+ months in length), including defining the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions.
• Ability to internalize the best ideas from across the organization, humbly setting a vision that others are excited to get behind.
• Experience integrating with 3rd party platforms and partnering with external service providers.
• 4+ years in leading high-performing software engineering teams. Direct evidence of the ability to guide, motivate, and inspire a team towards the successful completion of complex projects.

Preferred

• Experience building data pipes, AI/ML and web/mobile analytics.
• Experience building systems in auto industry
• Full-stack development