Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Digital Products)

Description

• 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
• 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
• Develop and lead the team to execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps. Design, code, deploy and operate technical architecture and systems.
• Recruit and manage a team of software engineers, setting the bar for quality software development.
• Assist in calibrating and developing the software engineering team.
• 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.
• The responsibilities of this role require attendance in the office with in-person meetings and events regularly.
• 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.
• Develop technology and best practices capable of supporting scalable, functional, and reliable software products and their associated integrations.
• Champion software engineering and operational excellence, establishing and improving metrics and processes. Set a high bar for engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Requirements

• Experience integrating with 3rd party platforms and partnering with external service providers.
• Knowledge of potential system vulnerabilities and how to prevent them.
• Experience as a technical lead for large projects (6+ months in length), including defining the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions
• 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.
• Residing in New York City: This role is not eligible for remote work in New York City.
• Residing in San Francisco: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Scout Motors will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
• 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.
• Experience building systems in auto industry
• Experience building comprehensive understanding of APIs, microservices, and other complex backend systems.
• 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.
• 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.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field.
• Experience building data pipes, AI/ML and web/mobile analytics.
• Residing in Los Angeles: Scout Motors will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
• Ability to internalize the best ideas from across the organization, humbly setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
• Experience operating in start-up settings, launching 0 to 1 product, supporting early low-code tools, and driving graduation to highly customized applications.

Benefits

• Paid leave for circumstances related to bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders
• Competitive insurance including:
• Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans
• 401(k) program with:
• Generous Paid Time Off including:
• 40 hours of unplanned PTO and 14 company or floating holidays, annually
• 20 days planned PTO, as accrued

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance