Senior Software Engineer

Roadie, a UPS Company, is a logistics management and crowdsourced delivery platform. Founded in 2014, Roadie offers businesses fast, flexible and asset-light logistics solutions for last-mile delivery. Roadie enables local delivery to more than 95% of U.S. households by providing access to more than 200,000 independent drivers nationwide – allowing businesses to offer their customers delivery optionality for almost any industry, from airlines to artisans.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work to create technology solving real-world problems in the crowdsourced delivery space. This person will work directly with the Intel development team who are focused on building custom algorithms that solve challenges in the crowdsourced delivery space and directly impact company goals. The ideal candidate has expert-level Python experience, an interest in machine learning, and wants to do more than write code. 

What You’ll Do

  • Play an integral role in the development, design, testing, and maintenance of Roadie’s platform APIs and services
  • Work across the engineering team to refactor existing systems and architect new features and solutions at scale
  • Partner with Engineering leadership to scope and define work across the team
  • Apply experience and knowledge of industry best practices to support and continuously improve the performance, efficiency, and maintainability of existing applications
  • Lead by example and mentor developers in all aspects of planning, development and testing
  • Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Data Science team members, providing a voice in backend architectural design decisions
  • Contribute to establishing and improving software engineering best practices

Technology We're Using Now

  • Backend: Go, Python, Ruby on Rails
  • Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Redshift
  • AWS
  • Docker, Kubernetes
  • git, GitHub, CircleCI

What You Bring

  • 5+ years of software architecture and software development experience
  • Strong expertise in Python, required
  • Exposure to microservices design and architecture
  • Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly
  • Proven track record of providing stable and secure code in production environments
  • Desire for continuous improvement of processes, code, and efficiency
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to distill complex problems into digestible insights

Why Roadie? 

  • Competitive compensation packages 
  • 100% covered health insurance premiums for yourself
  • 401k with company match
  • Tuition and student loan repayment assistance (that’s right - Roadie will contribute directly to your existing student loans!) 
  • Flexible work schedule with unlimited PTO 
  • Monthly 3-day weekends
  • Monthly WFH stipend 
  • Paid sabbatical leave- tenured team members are given time to rest, relax, and explore
  • The technology you need to get the job done

Roadie provides a crowdsourced delivery platform that facilitates urgent, same-day, and next-day delivery of various items across the U.S. by connecting senders with drivers utilizing their unused vehicle capacity.

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