With Phantom Auto, drivers can work remotely, too. Phantom's software enables people to remotely operate, assist, and supervise vehicles from thousands of miles away -- including forklifts, tuggers, robots, trucks, and more. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel, Phantom serves transportation and logistics customers to increase safety, labor accessibility, and productivity.

At Phantom, every day is a unique adventure. We are an energetic and passionate global team on a mission to build the future of transportation and logistics. As an early team member, you will be instrumental in defining the foundations of our product and culture. If you are determined to take on the world’s most complex challenges and help build an industry-defining company, this is the opportunity for you.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, designing, and implementing teleoperation software for remotely driving vehicles. You will be involved with the server-side communication software, and the internal tools that make it all a reality.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement new features, enhancements to existing features, testing and fixing issues discovered in the existing code base
• Provide reliable solutions to a variety of problems using sound problem-solving techniques
• Serve as a mentor to less experienced software engineers
• Actively participate in development support activities including code reviews, collaborative design sessions, project and sprint planning
• Take part in the system architecture and design decision-making process, including feature analysis and system tradeoffs

Requirements: 

• 4 years of experience in Software Development
• 4 years of experience with JavaScript / Node.js
• Experience with integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Experience with Redis (or other equivalent in-memory key-value databases)
• Experience with NoSQL databases
• Experience developing distributed systems
• Experience with a production environment
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment)
• Writing automated unit and integration tests
• Proven knowledge of data structures
• Clear verbal and documentation skills

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience in a gitflow and CI/CD development environment
• Have worked and developed in a Docker environment
• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS
• Experience with message-brokers and/or stream-processing (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
• Experience in other programming languages (C /Python)