Senior Software Engineer II, Full Stack, Foundation
Cruise LLCAbout the role
We're Cruise, a self-driving service designed for the cities we love.
We’re building the world’s most advanced, self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.
Cruisers have the opportunity to grow and develop while learning from leaders at the forefront of their fields. With a culture of internal mobility, there's an opportunity to thrive in a variety of disciplines. This is a place for dreamers and doers to succeed.
If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, join us.
What you’ll be doing:
Design and implement full-stack solutions to develop our growing suite of operational tools; enhancing our ability to deploy, monitor, and control our fleet of autonomous vehicles.
Own the quality of development and deployed code to our production services and surfaces.
Raise the bar on engineering excellence by producing best in class of code, documentation, testing, and monitoring
Work collaboratively to establish and execute on large, multi-team programs
Having vision and identifying strategically important problems, inefficiencies, or opportunities for meaningful improvements
Work with our product managers to understand and evolve our suite of products to better serve our customers
What you must have:
5+ years of production-level experience building full stack applications
Strong experience in building, shipping, debugging, and operating full stack web services in a production environment
The ability to make connections across different technical stacks, design patterns and development philosophies to come up with novel solutions.
Serving as a role model and mentor for others on acting with good judgment and responsibility
Broad knowledge of cloud computing platforms like GCP, Azure and AWS, API design and deployment (Real-time, REST, GraphQL), distributed systems, SOA and/or microservice-based architectures, datastores types and their tradeoffs, compute deployment strategies including serverless, common security vulnerabilities and mitigation, and web frontend development tech such as React
Excellent written communication skills. Your ideas, feedback, key decisions, and technical designs will be shared with other senior engineers, partners, and the company's leadership.
Strong product sense. You are aware of the value proposition of the products you are building.You must also have an execution-mindset, looking to deliver the most minimalist MVP, which can deliver the highest value for the company (ala lean product)
A passion for self-driving technology and its impact on the world
Bonus points!
Prior experience of building large scale developer productivity tools and workflows
Prior AV experience
Experience or interest in ML, embedded systems, mobile app development, ROS, or robotics
Why Cruise?
- Our benefits are here to support the whole you:
- Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and life insurance
- Subsidized mental health benefits
- One Medical membership
- Flexible Spending Account
- Monthly wellness stipend
- 401(k) match
- Paid time off: vacation, sick, public health emergency, jury duty, bereavement and company holidays.
- Paid parental, family care and medical leave
- Family care benefits: fertility benefits, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (subsidized by Cruise).
- Non-remote employees: Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan, healthy meals and snacks
- CruiseFlex - a working policy for US-Based Cruisers that lets you and your manager find what working style is best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home or a combination of home and in-office time.
- We’re Integrated
- Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.
- We’re Funded
- GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price & Walmart have invested billions in Cruise. Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry. Our deep resources greatly accelerate our operating speed.
- We’re Independent
- We have our own g
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