Software Engineer Backend

About the Team

AVRIDE is an autonomous driving company with the mission to make transportation safer and more efficient through cutting-edge technology. We hold a unique position in the market developing self-driving taxis and delivery robots. Our delivery robot division already has production in the US and Japan. Our compact team consists of highly talented engineers with extensive expertise. Joining us means diving into a startup atmosphere and making a significant impact on the companys results and the autonomous industry as a whole.

About the Role

As a Backend Engineer on our Autonomous Delivery team youll build and maintain the core backend systems that connect our cloud platform with autonomous vehicles. Youll develop reliable Go services integrate with internal and external systems and ensure stable performance even over unreliable networks. Youll collaborate closely with infrastructure and robotics teams troubleshoot production issues and help improve the tools and APIs that keep our delivery platform running smoothly at scale.

What Youll Do

• Develop and maintain the backend of the autonomous delivery web service.
• Manage the setup configuration administration and monitoring of this service within our infrastructure ensuring its reliability and performance.
• Develop and maintain integrations with diverse internal and third-party services. Communicate effectively with other teams and external partners.
• Develop and maintain the code and protocols for communication between the web service and the autonomous vehicles.
• Rapidly troubleshoot and debug production issues.
• Mentor new team members.
• Participate in code reviews.

What Youll Need

• Masters degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent.
• At least 5 years of professional experience in software engineering with a strong emphasis on building and troubleshooting network applications.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Proficiency in Go.
• Strong understanding of common network protocols (TCP UDP HTTP).
• 5 years of experience with SQL databases (e.g. PostgreSQL).
• 5 years of experience with Linux and common development tools such as version control (e.g. Git).
• 3 years of experience in development of distributed systems particularly those operating over unreliable network connections (e.g. LTE).
• 3 years of experience with cloud platforms containerization and deployment tools (e.g. AWS Docker Kubernetes Terraform).
• 3 years of experience designing and developing RESTful and gRPC APIs.
• 3 years of experience with Key-value stores (e.g. Redis).
• Experience with web frontend technologies (TypeScript React HTML CSS).
• Experience with C.

Candidates are required to be authorized to work in the U.S. The employer is not offering relocation sponsorship and remote work options are not available.

Avride is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities to ensure they have equal access to employment opportunities. Avride complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) if you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of a job please email .