Backend Engineer, Vay

Mobility

Salary not provided

+ Stock Options

AWS
Kafka
Node.js
Terraform
RabbitMQ
Golang
Junior, Mid and Senior level
Berlin
Vay

Driverless mobility service

Job no longer available

Vay

Driverless mobility service

101-200 employees

B2CCarsTransportAutomation

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

+ Stock Options

AWS
Kafka
Node.js
Terraform
RabbitMQ
Golang
Junior, Mid and Senior level
Berlin

101-200 employees

B2CCarsTransportAutomation

Company mission

To speed up the rollout of driverless mobility services by using its remote human-assisted driving technologies to build trust in its services.

Role

Who you are

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or STEM
  • Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals (algorithms and data structures)
  • Experience developing backend services and APIs, preferably in Golang
  • Good knowledge of event-driven architectures, e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ
  • DevOps: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring
  • Experience with relational databases, e.g. PostgreSQL

Desirable

  • Domain knowledge in Mobility or Logistics
  • Experience working on mobile-first products
  • Experience with NodeJS, gRPC, AWS or Terraform
  • Experience with NoSQL databases

What the job involves

  • As a Backend Engineer on our Mobility team you will help bring Vay’s remote driving technology to end customers and have a direct impact on scaling our business
  • Some of the challenges you will face will be unique, born at the intersection of the traditional mobility domain with our deep tech
  • Working side by side with product manager, designer and frontend engineers, you will discuss requirements and goals, author and review design documents, design and implement APIs, continuously deploy code and infrastructure to AWS, be responsible for automation and monitoring
  • You will also have the rare opportunity to work with people from various engineering domains like electrical and data engineering to drive outcomes at the company level
  • Above all, you will be crafting magical customer experience by solving problems of fleet and trip state management, dispatch, payments, and more
  • Design and develop Golang-based backend services, APIs and cloud infrastructure as code, incl. CI/CD
  • Contribute to cross-team platform engineering initiatives (shared practices, tools and libraries)
  • Work closely with frontend engineers to create elegant solutions with direct impact on the customers and business
  • Collaborate with product management and design to refine product goals and requirements and steer both sprint and quarterly planning
  • Own quality via automation and continuous monitoring

Otta's take

Xav Kearney headshot

Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Driverless cars are often considered as the future of transport, but the AI-driven innovation is not yet powerful and safe enough to be made publically available. Furthermore, it is anticipated that many people would not trust AI-driven driverless cars regardless of their state of development, preferring to know that a human is behind the wheel.

Vay develops autonomous driving hardware powered by "teledriving", a system in which cars are driven remotely by humans. The German company will begin by providing orderable cars that can be driven manually by the customer but parked remotely by Vay staff, with future use cases including full remote rides, ride-sharing, last-mile delivery, and public transport.

Whilst other companies such as Mobileye have made plans to provide driverless cars to German cities, Vay is standing out with its unique focus on the trust of teledriving. Furthermore, the initial focus on autonomous parking will greatly speed up rollout and give the company a competitive edge.

Insights

Top investors

Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-1% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Dec 2021

$95m

SERIES B

May 2019

$13.4m

SERIES A

Total funding: $108.4m

Company benefits

  • You will be part of a highly committed, experienced, fun and international team from over 25 countries
  • You'll be a part of improving transportation in metropolitan areas around the world - from Europe
  • We offer healthy snacks, drinks and coffee in our modern waterfront office in Hamburg
  • We have a generous, highly employee-friendly stock option plan and pay above industry standards
  • We organize thoughtful & fun team events throughout the year
  • We support highly flexible working policies where possible as well as support for your relocation – it doesn’t matter where you currently live
  • We contribute to a FitX or UrbanSportsClub membership, plus free and all-day use of our Gravity Gym in the Berlin office
  • We contribute to your monthly public transport ticket in Berlin so that it costs you <50% of the regular price

Company values

  • Pioneering change
  • Fuelling collaboration
  • Driving action
  • Building trust
  • Creating magic

Company HQ

Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany

Founders

Thomas von der Ohe

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Experience as Senior Technical Program Manager for Amazon Lab126 between 2014 and 2016. Technical Program Manager for Zoox Inc. between 2016 and 2018. Co-founded Vay as CEO in 2018.

Fabrizio Ugo Scelsi

(Co-Founder & VP of Engineering)

Founded autonomous driving company Mov.ING in 2014, acting as CTO until 2017.

Bogdan Djukic

(Co-Founder)

Experience as a Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft between 2013 and 2017.

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