Staff 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 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