Software Engineer

Who you are

• The ideal candidate will have experience working in an evolving startup environment. You will be an in the moment problem solver with the ability to think about the short term and long term plan. You're energized about building, scaling, observability and being part of a forward-thinking organization
• 1+ years of industry professional software development experience and a track record of building impactful products or systems
• Skilled at writing logical and maintainable code, and providing clear feedback in code reviews
• Customer obsessed. You put the customer first
• Data driven. You have a strong data insight and rely on data to make decisions
• Outcomes oriented. You focus on impact
• Strong collaborator. You understand cross-functional strategies and involve key stakeholders in decision making
• Technical proficiency to understand the design and implementation of projects and ideas
• Excellent communication and effective prioritization skills in working with competing priorities
• Passionate. You’re passionate about Lime’s mission and micromobility; you want to see cities transform to become people-centric and less polluted
• Ability to participate in a shared on-call rotation supporting production systems, including occasional after-hours, weekend, and holiday coverage, with responsibility for responding to critical alerts, coordinating escalations to restore service, and documenting issues to help prevent recurrence
• Experience in Ruby and Go
• Experience with engineers as customers, ensuring efficient use of internal systems
• Experience building and maintaining scalable data ingestion pipelines
• If you want to make an impact, Lime is the place for you. Not sure if you meet all the qualifications? If this role excites you we encourage you to apply

What the job involves

• We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our team and help us revolutionize the way people move around our cities. As a key member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to design and build the core technology that powers our fleet of connected vehicles
• With our rapid global expansion, you’ll play a vital role in crafting backend systems that can process requests from our IoT devices and consumer-facing apps
• You will also have the chance to improve our suite of operational tools that enable our distributed workforce to charge, deploy, and maintain our electric vehicles. And the best part? You get an opportunity to work with a talented group of engineers, data scientists, designers, and PMs who are passionate about creating innovative solutions for urban transportation
• Solve strategically essential technical problems, including building highly scalable foundational platforms, and revamping existing core application experiences
• Scrutinize and reason clearly about the technology and architecture we make
• Building scalable, efficient, and stable software to power our electric vehicles and related features
• Participate in cross-functional collaboration with PMs, Engineers, Design, Data Scientists, Research, and Operations teams
• Contribute to shaping the overall engineering culture at the company
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation, responding to incidents, troubleshooting issues, and contributing to root cause analysis and service reliability improvements
• Respond to and troubleshoot production issues, outages, and critical alerts during assigned on-call shifts
• Escalate incidents as needed and collaborate with team members to restore service
• Document issues and contribute to improvements that reduce recurring incidents
• Be available to provide occasional after-hours, weekend, and holiday support while on call

Benefits

• Disability insurance
• 401(k)