About the role:
Samsaras Telematics team focuses on building both the product and platform for vehicle telematics data. We build the platform of telematics data that many other full-stack teams interface with to retrieve reliable and consistent data to power cloud solutions that help fleets increase their safety efficiency and sustainability of their operations and also build products for end-users such as real-time vehicle reporting.
As a senior full-stack engineer on the Telematics team you will lead the design and development of products and abstractions based on vehicle telematics data. You will lead technical discussions with teammates to identify gaps in our platform and influence roadmap by setting direction and recommending solutions. You will collaborate with other full-stack teams to make design decisions and understand downstream implications in our product. Given the ownership area of the team which includes the design and implementation of the core object models powering our platform this role is backend-leaning but will involve both web and mobile development.
This is a remote position open to candidates in the UK and Poland. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role.
You should apply if:
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software firmware and hardware you build will result in real-world impacthelping to keep the lights on get food into grocery stores and most importantly ensure workers return home safely.
- You want to build for scale: With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the worlds physical operations.
- You are a life-long learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies challenges and customers that push us to learn on the go.
- You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews collaborate with customer success and product managers and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
- You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission were all racing toward our connected operations vision and we intend to wintogether.
In this role you will:
- Lead technical discussions with teammates to identify gaps in our telematics data platform and influence roadmap by setting direction and recommending solutions
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to make design decisions and understand downstream implications in our product to ensure a seamless customer experience
- Ship features that are immediately used by our customers and iterate based on their feedback
- Deliver full stack features across front-end back-end and mobile. GoLang GraphQL Typescript React and ReactNative are some of the components of our technology stack. Direct experience with these technologies is not required.
- Be responsible for maintaining the production systems that your team owns and provide operational support.
- Champion role model and embed Samsaras cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success Build for the Long Term Adopt a Growth Mindset Be Inclusive Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices
Minimum requirements for the role:
- Demonstrated expertise in establishing data models and contracts in large organizations
- 8 years of experience designing and building products in a skilled software engineering team
- Track record of leading design development deployment and maintenance of distributed highly scalable software systems
- Experience mentoring and supporting engineers and role modeling excellent engineering practices within a technical lead capacity
- Experience taking end-to-end ownership of product feature designs development and delivery of large scale and long running projects
- Proactive growth mindset always looking at ways to improve the status quo
An ideal candidate also has:
- B.S. in Computer Science or related technical discipline
- Experience building products using Machine Learning
- Experience building customer-facing web and mobile workflow applications
- Contributed heavily to driving significant value to their customers
- Curiosity about our customers and is eager to improve their day-to-day experience
- Seeks to iterate on new products based on customer feedback
Required Experience:
Senior IC