Remote Staff Software Engineer

Description:

• Smartcar is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their engineering team and provide technical leadership and strategic guidance across multiple engineering groups.
• The role involves collaborating with product, engineering, and architecture leaders to enhance Smartcar’s core platform, focusing on reliability, scalability, performance, and customer-centric developer productivity.
• Responsibilities include setting high-quality coding practices, providing architectural leadership, and guiding the Core API and OEM Adapter Engineering teams.
• The engineer will work closely with the Developer Experience team to improve onboarding processes and overall developer experience.
• Mentorship and leadership are key aspects of the role, fostering technical excellence and a customer-first mindset among team members.
• The position requires driving initiatives to improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of APIs and services.
• Staying updated on the latest technologies and advocating for the adoption of tools and techniques that enhance engineering efficiency and customer satisfaction is essential.
• This role is remote within the United States.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 15+ years of software engineering experience with a strong background in distributed systems, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Proven experience as a technical leader, providing architectural guidance and influencing cross-functional teams is required.
• Expertise in building and maintaining high-performance, scalable APIs and streaming systems is essential.
• A strong understanding of cloud platforms, microservices architecture, and asynchronous communication patterns is necessary.
• Hands-on experience with programming languages such as Javascript and Python, along with proficiency in other relevant languages, is required.
• Experience with event-based architectures (Kinesis, SQS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar), streaming platforms, and RESTful APIs is needed.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills are essential, with the ability to work across multiple teams and disciplines.
• A proven track record of mentoring engineers and guiding teams through complex technical challenges is required.

Benefits:

• The base salary for this position ranges from $180,000 to $225,000, determined by years of experience.
• Employees will receive equity as part of their compensation package.
• The position offers remote work within the United States.
• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance is covered at 90% for all plans and 80% for dependents, amounting to approximately $11,000 a year.
• The company provides 401K matching at 4%.
• Employees enjoy unlimited PTO.
• A wellness stipend of $50 a month is included.
• A cell phone and Internet stipend of $50 a month is provided.
• There is a $300 yearly learning and development stipend.
• Employees receive a $350 work-from-home stipend.
• The company offers 8 weeks of 100% paid parental leave, with an additional 4 weeks unpaid, 1-week half-day ramp back time, and a 5-week Factor subscription.
• Employees are entitled to 10 days of paid bereavement leave.