**Backend Software Engineer, Delivery Service**

at Nuro Nuro HQ - Mountain View, CA ****Who We Are****

Nuro exists to better everyday life through robotics. We are an elite team of entrepreneurs, engineers, designers, and scientists. We believe AI and robotics are at the cusp of transforming daily life and we are dedicated to building meaningful products with this technology. Join us and play a critical role in our mission.

****About the Role****

The Delivery Service Team builds products and systems to enable autonomous bot deliveries. Our goal is to build a beloved local delivery service for our partners and consumers using Nuro bots, by providing a magical user experience and operating at maximum efficiency.

This is the perfect role if you love crafting amazing user experiences, building performant and reliable web applications, and launching products that your users love. The position demands technical excellence, customer empathy, and a knack for solving tough problems.

We use the best tools for the job. Our current frontend stack is React, Typescript, GraphQL, and our backend stack uses Go, MySQL, Kubernetes. However, we do not expect experience in these tools just willingness to learn quickly!

****About the Work****

* You will work on building and scaling the backend system for the Delivery Service team. This includes everything from designing interfaces between services, optimizing algorithms for routing and dispatching, scaling distributed systems, building monitoring and analytics infrastructure, optimizing our deployment pipeline, etc.

* You will work with product, design, and business to design and build new, magical user experiences, and define our product strategy and roadmap.

****About you****

* Technical excellence.

You have 2 years of building and scaling server-side applications.

You know how to scale a microservice architecture. You know how to take advantage of the benefits of a microservice architecture while avoiding the pitfalls.

You know how to choose the right storage technology for the job. You have experience with a wide-range of databases, including relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL), non-relational (BigTable, Cassandra, Redis, etc), and data warehouses (Vertica, BigQuery).

You know your way around RPC frameworks (gRPC, Thrift) and pubsub systems (Kafka, Cloud PubSub, Celery, etc).

You have extensive experience working with cloud providers (GCP, AWS, etc).

You have experience working with Docker & Kubernetes, or are willing to learn.

* You have a wide-range of technical skills, you love learning new technologies and youre a quick learner.

* You have a passion for making lives easier for developers. You love working on tooling that will help engineers more easily troubleshoot, debug, and profile their applications.

* You have the knack for making the right tradeoffs. You know when it makes sense to take the quick-and-dirty vs the scalable approach. You can move fluently between the two.

* You are a great communicator, and you regularly chat with PMs, UXRs, other engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders on product requirements and designs.

* You are impact-driven. You care deeply that your work makes a significant impact on the lives of millions of people.

****Bonus points****

* Shown ability to build, launch, and iterate quickly. Youve experienced product development in all of its stages -- from writing requirements to scoping to launch to iteration. You are especially comfortable in the earlier stages of product development -- in getting from zero to one.

* Product and business savvy. You like being involved in the why in addition to the how. Youre eager to understand and contribute to product and business requirements. You can look at a list of potential projects and identify which ones might make a substantial impact (and which ones wont).

*At Nuro, we celebrate differences and are committed to a diverse workplace that fosters inclusion and psychological safety for all employees. Nuro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and expressly prohibits any form of workplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.*

*You must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by your hire date to be eligible to start the role. Proof of vaccination will be required by your start date. Nuro will consider and review reasonable accommodation requests based on medical or religious grounds for qualified candidates.*

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