Senior Backend Software Engineer, Cruise

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in software development, with at least 2 years of experience development using TypeScript
• BS in Computer Science, Math, Physics, etc, or equivalent real-world experience

Desirable

• This role is working on the Ridehail product, helping us meet the company's 2024 expansion goals
• You will work on a full-stack team that owns the entire lifecycle for the customer; onboarding, on-trip experience, payments, user profiles, ratings and review, and much much more
• On the back-end, you will work on the services that power that user experience, including scaling those services to 100x our current scale
• You will have the opportunity to build new services, do load testing, apply distributed data architecture, and use a modern tech stack like K8s, GCP, spanner, and Temporal
• You will be working closely with Infrastructure, Product, SRE, In-Car Experience, and many other cross-functional groups, to build a world-class service
• Forge strong partnerships with Product Managers and Frontend Engineers, blending your backend insights with their feature ideas to design the best solutions for the business
• Work as a team to do load testing, identify scaling bottlenecks, and apply best-in-class practices to scale the Ridehail product to 100x scale
• Apply your existing cloud and scaling experience, and learn new skills, as we build services, implement pub/sub queues, move to Spanner, implement Temporal, and many other massive-scaling initiatives
• Use your amazing communication skills to articulate critical engineering problems and proposed solutions, to get buy-in from leadership
• Lead projects through all stages, from inception to deployment, using agile development, cross-functional engagement, documentation, engineering best practices, and consumer validation
• Mentor other engineers, fostering a high-quality technical standard across the team, and learn from Cruise’s amazing Staff, Principle, and Distinguished engineers
• Write clear and efficient technical documentation to align the business and knowledge-share across engineering
• Efficiently troubleshoot and debug code across our ridehail experiences to ensure a seamless user experience
• Continuously adopt new technologies, tools, and best practices to boost team efficiency and product quality

• Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and life insurance
• Subsidized mental health benefits
• One Medical membership
• Flexible Spending Account
• Monthly wellness stipend
• 401(k) match
• Paid time off: vacation, sick, public health emergency, jury duty, bereavement and company holidays
• Paid parental, family care and medical leave
• Family care benefits: fertility benefits, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (subsidized by Cruise)
• Non-remote employees: Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan, healthy meals and snacks
• CruiseFlex - a working policy for US-Based Cruisers that lets you and your manager find what working style is best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home or a combination of home and in-office time

Total funding: $9.1bn

The taxi industry has seen dramatic changes through mobile vehicle-hailing apps such as Uber, but these services focus simply on ease-of-access to regular taxi services. The automotive industry has seen a vast range of innovations in recent years such as electric cars and self-driving capability, features that are currently not found in existing services.