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.
The mission of the Data Science team at Roadie is to optimize automated decision-making across the organization by leveraging machine learning and operations research in concert–decisions at the heart of the business, including route creation, driver assignment, and pricing. We are looking for a Software Engineer to help our team develop, productionalize, and maintain these systems. This is a high impact opportunity to not only implement new features, but to work on near-greenfield projects that deliver direct impact for drivers, senders, and Roadie. The ideal engineer is someone with strong software design fundamentals, an interest in machine-learning or optimization algorithms, and a degree of comfort with creative destruction.
What You’ll Do
- Work closely with machine-learning engineers, operations researchers, and QA engineers to build, test, and scale systems performing automated decision making across the organization
- Collaborate with the broader Technology team to improve reliability of existing systems
- Write and deliver reliable code through integration, test automation, and code reviews
- Apply experience and knowledge of industry best practices to support and continuously improve the performance, efficiency, and maintainability of existing applications
Technologies
- Languages: Primarily, Python. Experience with Go is a plus.
- Data: Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Pinot, Redshift
- Infra & Devops: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CircleCI
What You Bring
- 2+ years of software development experience
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or equivalent
- Experience working with machine learning algorithms and/or machine learning teams, preferred
- Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly
- Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Experience writing clean, stable and maintainable code in high-scale production environments
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
Top Skills
What We Do
Roadie is the nation’s first “on the way” crowdsourced delivery platform. Roadie works with consumers, small businesses and big global brands across virtually every industry to provide a faster, cheaper, more scalable solution for scheduled, same-day and urgent delivery. With more than 200,000 active drivers nationwide, Roadie reaches more than 11,000 cities and 20,000 zip codes – the largest local same-day delivery footprint in the nation.
