Senior Software Engineer Full-Stack
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Job Location:
Lancaster, NE - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
20 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Kodiak Robotics Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous 2024 Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense.
We are looking for a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer with a background in creating reliable and scalable web applications and web services. This person must understands the fundamentals of modern web technologies and cloud technologies. The person in this role will be designing implementing testing and deploying services and/or features for web based applications and APIs. The role will work collaboratively across multiple teams to gather requirements validate designs and implementations and test the resulting deliverables.
This role will require to be in office at least 3 days per week.
In this role you will:
- Optimize and enhance existing applications and APIs to incorporate new features and user feedback.
- Design new features and user experiences including UI elements and layout through mockups (e.g. Figma) and implement such features in React TypeScript.
- Research and design new APIs for new use cases and implement such APIs and backend logic using Python JavaScript/TypeScript C.
- Utilize a variety of AWS technologies such as API Gateway AWS Lambda Amazon AppSync DynamoDB and Terraform.
- Interact with a variety of data sources including documents databases raw and/or processed sensor data and other APIs.
- Collaborate with Software Engineering Software Quality and Operations to understand end user requirements.
What youll bring:
- Strong technical background as evidenced by BS MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline
- 5 years of experience building backend services and/or intuitive web applications with significant scale and performance
- Solid understanding of HTML CSS and related web technologies
- Recent experience with JavaScript TypeScript and React
- Experience with using internal and external facing APIs
- Experience with app profiling and performance tuning.
- Experience with service performance measurement observability and tuning.
- Familiarity with web sockets and Typed Arrays
- Bonus for experience Web Workers protobuf
- Bonus for experience in designing UIs using collaborative tools
- Bonus for experience with C creating tooling for robotics / timeseries data
- Bonus for experience with AWS PaaS technologies and services
- Great communicator; you must be capable of writing clear concise and detailed documentation.
- Passion; you must be passionate about autonomous vehicles and their potential impact on humanity.
What we offer:
- Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses
- Excellent Medical Dental and Vision plans through Kaiser Permanente Cigna and MetLife (including a medical plan with infertility benefits)
- MetLife Legal Services Identity & Fraud Protection Hospital Indemnity Insurance Accident Insurance & Critical Illness Insurance
- Flexible PTO 10 paid holidays and generous parental leave policies
- Office perks: free catered lunch a fully stocked kitchen
- Long Term Disability Short Term Disability Life Insurance
- Wellbeing Benefits - Headspace through Cigna Calm through Kaiser One Medical Gympass Spring Health through Cigna Rula (mental health navigation)
- Fidelity 401(k)
- Commuter FSA Dependent Care FSA HSA
- Various incentive programs (referral bonuses patent bonuses etc.)
At Kodiak we strive to build a diverse community working towards our common company goals in a safe and collaborative environment where harassment of any kind is strictly prohibited. Kodiak is committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race ethnicity religion gender identity sexual orientation age disability or veteran status or any other basis protected by applicable law.
In alignment with its business operations Kodiak adheres to all relevant statutes regulations and administrative prerequisites. Accordingly roles that carry more sensitive requirements may be limited to candidates that can satisfy additional scrutiny and eligibility for such positions may hinge on verification of a candidates residence U.S. person status and/or citizenship status. Should the position require and Kodiak determines that a candidates residence U.S. person status and/or citizenship status necessitate an export license bar the candidate from the position or otherwise fall under national security-related restrictions Kodiak will consider the candidate for alternative positions unaffected by such restrictions under terms and conditions set forth at Kodiaks sole discretion or as an alternative opt not to proceed with the candidates application. If applicable Kodiak may provide visa sponsorship for eligible candidates.
We use a third-party AI tool (Endorsed) to assist in the initial screening of applications. As part of the evaluation process we provide Endorsed with job requirements and candidate-submitted applications. Final hiring decisions are made by our human recruitment team and no automated system makes the ultimate decision regarding hiring. Certain features of the platform may qualify it as an Automated Employment Decision Tool (AEDT) under applicable regulations. We began using Endorsed on January 1 2026. You can review the independent bias audit report covering our use of Endorsed here( By submitting your application you acknowledge that your application may be processed by AI systems as part of the screening and selection process. If you have any questions or would like to request a separate review of your application please contact with Separate Review Request in the email subject line.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
