Senior Software Engineer (IoT)

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Bird launched micromobility. Now were shaping its future.

Were Bird and were on a mission totransform the way the world moves one ride at a time. Our products services and people share one common goal: to make cities more livable by empowering people and communities everywhere to move freely discover new possibilities and create a cleaner more connected future. To cleaner air. To calmer streets. To cities built for people.

Who We Are

Bird is a global leader in micromobility dedicated to shaping the future of urban movement. Our cleaner affordable and on-demand mobility solutions are available in over 200 cities worldwide.

We take a collaborative community-first approach to micromobility. Bird partners closely with the cities in which it operates leveraging our experience and safety-first technology to help them meet their shared mobility and climate goals and provide a reliable affordable and responsible transportation option for people who live and work there.

Our award-winning electric vehicles have empowered more than eighty-seven million rides in cities around the world and helped riders take carbon-free trips in more than 200 cities globally. And our teams are constantly pushing boundaries and challenging the status quo in pursuit of a brighter future.

Job Summary

The Senior Software Engineer plays a pivotal role in designing building and optimizing high-quality software solutions. This position exists to provide technical expertise and ownership of complex features ensuring scalability reliability and maintainability. The engineer is expected to tackle challenging technical problems write clean and efficient code and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. By mentoring junior engineers and adhering to best practices this role contributes to the teams success and the overall delivery of Birds product roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable systems: Design implement and optimize backend and infrastructure solutions to support business growth. Deliver at least one major feature or system enhancement per quarter that improves performance scalability or maintainability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work with product data vehicle and infrastructure teams to design and implement solutions that align with business needs. Provide actionable recommendations and technical feasibility assessments within agreed timelines.
• Ensure system reliability: Monitor and improve system health proactively addressing performance bottlenecks and outages. Reduce system downtime by at least 5% annually through incident resolution and preventative measures.
• Mentor engineering talent: Provide code reviews technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers. Conduct at least one structured knowledge-sharing session per quarter and set individual development goals for mentees.
• Optimize development processes: Improve CI/CD pipelines automate deployments and implement best practices to increase engineering efficiency. Reduce manual operational workload by at least 10% per year through automation.
• Contribute to technical roadmap: Collaborate with the team to propose at least two technical initiatives per year that align with the teams roadmap.
• Lead technical problem-solving: Tackle high-impact engineering challenges conduct post-mortems and implement long-term fixes. Reduce repeat incidents by 10% annually through improved monitoring alerting and root cause analysis.
• Champion engineering culture: Act as a role model for technical excellence collaboration and innovation. Lead at least one technical discussion hackathon or knowledge-sharing event per quarter to strengthen team engagement.

Must Haves

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience in STEM with 10 years of professional relevant experience
• Strong experience with Golang Object Oriented programming and the JVM
• 5 years of experience with Kubernetes and AWS
• Strong proficiency in Golang and JVM-based languages (Java Kotlin Scala) for building scalable backend services.
• Experience working with IoT devices real-time data pipelines and communication protocols.
• Expertise in distributed systems microservices Kafka Kubernetes and AWS for cloud-based architectures.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines automation and debugging using Jenkins GitHub Actions or similar tools.
• Familiarity with observability tools (Datadog Grafana) for system monitoring and debugging.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations for production system support and critical incident resolution.
• Proven ability to reduce system failures through proactive monitoring alerting and post-mortem analysis.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to advocate for technical solutions and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Experience documenting best practices and technical designs to enhance team knowledge-sharing.
• Expertise in debugging and optimizing large-scale connected systems handling high-volume telemetry data.
• Ability to evaluate and implement new technologies that improve system resilience and efficiency.
• Proven ability to work across teams including backend IoT data vehicle and infrastructure to drive technical decisions.
• Skilled in mentoring engineers through code reviews technical guidance and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Ability to contribute to technical roadmaps by identifying system improvements that enhance scalability and reliability.
• Experience implementing best practices to improve system performance maintainability and cost efficiency.
• Ability to travel approximately twice a year

Highly Desired

• Experience in Kotlin Avro and Java
• Extensive experience with Flink Kafka and real-time streaming systems
• Expertise in Hadoop Frameworks
• Extensive experience in Geospatial and IOT systems

Target Hiring Salary Range: $165000 - $190000

Why Bird Matters

Every time you hop on a Bird youre helping build a more livable city. We focus on four core pillars that reflect the impact of every ride:

• Freedom: Were the bridge that connects you to every experiencesimple convenient and stress-free. We give you the freedom to move without limits.
• Exploration: We turn everyday trips into memorable experiences sparking discovery and wonder as you connect with the world around you.
• Community: Taking a Bird is an act of citizenship. We create a sense of belonging and unity knowing that the richer our communities become the richer our lives become.
• Sustainability: Our electric vehicles reduce gas-powered car usage and lower carbon emissions. We enable responsible choices creating tangible impact and driving progress toward a cleaner future.

Culture at Bird

Were an ambitious smart and open-minded team that is passionate about our mission. Each day is unlike the last as were constantly moving forward challenging each other and working together to create the future of micro-mobility.

Perks Up!

We want you to succeed and thrive here so we offer a few sweet perks:

• Plenty of time off to relax and recharge plus a wellness resource to help you wind down.
• A work-from-home stipend.
• An employer-paid healthcare package.
• Of course Bird ride credits to get you where you need to be!

Bird is the world

Bird stands for a culture of inclusion. We celebrate different backgrounds experiences and perspectives encouraging everyone to bring their authentic selves to work. We have a diverse environment that empowers our team to feel comfortable when they voice their opinions.

For these reasons and more Bird is a proud equal employment opportunity employer. We welcome everyone regardless of their race color religion sex national origin age disability veteran status or genetics and we are dedicated to providing an inclusive open and diverse work environment.

Sound like a place youd like to work Sweet. Lets chat.

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Senior IC