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 Staff Software Engineer, you will design and build systems to solve large-scale logistics challenges. You will work across teams to evolve the architecture of Roadie’s platform to meet the ever-increasing scalability and performance requirements. The ideal candidate has deep technical knowledge and experience architecting high-scale distributed systems.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the design and implementation of the next generation of the Roadie platform
- Identify system bottlenecks, propose solutions, and implement performance improvements
- Work across the engineering org to refactor existing systems and architect new features and solutions for high-scale
- Partner with engineering leadership to scope and define work
- Mentor engineers across teams, establish coding standards, and drive architectural decisions
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Data Science to deliver features that meet business and technical needs
- Research and evaluate new technologies to improve system performance and solve industry challenges
Technology We're Using Now
- Golang, Ruby on Rails, Python
- Postgres, Redis, Kafka
- AWS
- Docker, Kubernetes
- git, GitHub, CircleCI
What You Bring
- At least 8+ years of software architecture and software development experience
- Strong understanding of service-oriented architecture, distributed systems, and API design
- Expertise in Golang
- Experience in decomposition of a legacy monolith
- 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
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.
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