Permanent, Full-time, Hybrid (3 days per week in the office) position
As a Backend Engineer in the Rider Experience team, you focus on our core service - helping the user get to their destination. You help the user find a vehicle, navigate the city and park at their destination, all compliant with local city regulations. You work closely with your multidisciplinary team to identify and deliver on business opportunities within your team’s domain. 

Your core focus is to deliver a highly reliable service for our customers, crafting a delightful end-to-end user experience. You move fast, building on a solid foundation of effective application architecture and clean and testable code. You promote adoption of best practices and contribute new ideas that help shape the future direction of our product and technology stack.

What you’ll do

• Develop our Tier & Dott backend applications in close collaboration with your team of Software Engineers, Engineering Manager, Product Manager and Designer, participating in all aspects of the software development lifecycle
• Ensure stability and scalability of our services by a consistent application of clean architecture and industry best practices
• Deploy and monitor the health of your applications in production, debugging and mitigating issues as they arise, communicating with stakeholders to align priorities, escalate impediments and inform them of progress
• Identify technical opportunities that propel our business forward

What you’ll need

• Passion for technology and Software Engineering
• User centricity - demonstrated ability to identify and truly grasp user problems, building effective and scalable solutions
• Critical thinking - observability mindset, strong ability to reflect on own and team performance, data-driven approach
• Effectiveness as independent contributor - fluency in Typescript and familiar with best practices, able to implement changes independently, meeting architecture guidelines and quality expectations set by the team
• Experience - 3 years developing distributed backend applications at scale (service architecture/serverless)

Bonus points

• Interest in mobile or frontend web development
• Experience with programming languages other than Typescript, runtime environments other than Node.js
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes
• Experience in rapid growth or large scale environments