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.

In our cars, you’re free to be yourself. It’s the same here at Cruise. We’re creating a culture that values the experiences and contributions of all of the unique individuals who collectively make up Cruise, so that every employee can do their best work. 

Cruise is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, both in our workplace and in our products. 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, come join us. Even if you might not meet every requirement, we strongly encourage you to apply. You might just be the right candidate for us.

The Dispatch team is looking for senior software engineers to lead our development of scalable dispatching services for our commercial ride-hailing and delivery businesses. We are at a turning point in our business where we are close to launching a public product, and we need to build scalable, world-class dispatching services to support multiple products including ride-hail, delivery, research and development, and more. It is quite an exciting time to create new solutions to tackle new challenges of a company coming out of research and development mode and moving into providing a real tangible product for the public.

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: 

• We work on two sides of dispatch; the first matches users with vehicles to serve their needs, and the other aims to optimize vehicle utilization by directing them to various parts of the city to perform jobs such as collecting data, validating data, and serving anticipated demand. Some of the interesting projects include development of very accurate ETA models, efficient matching of rides/deliveries to the AV, automated managing of the fleet to send the AV to the hotspots or wherever the demand is higher to pick up the passengers. 

• Take ownership of quarterly dispatch projects, from design to implementation.

• Own the execution of your projects, including sprint-level planning, delegating tasks to peers, and collaborating with external stakeholders and dependencies.

• Create and maintain design documents, and conduct design reviews for your proposals.

• Test and validate your code via unit, integration, end-to-end, and occasionally road tests with self-driving vehicles!

• Monitor the health and performance of your services / features  collecting relevant metrics and setting up appropriate alerts (tools are already available)

• Review code change requests of peers, and produce well-tested, descriptive code change requests for your code

 

What you must have: 

• You are humble, collaborative, and believe self-driving technology will save the world

• You have 3+ years of production-level experience building backend services

• You have built scalable backend APIs using Node.js, Go, or similar languages

• You have worked with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and caching services (e.g. Redis)

• You have written comprehensive tests and validated of software (e.g. unit and integration testing)

• You produce readable and developer friendly software, and love to advocate for best practices

Bonus points!

• Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React.js, GraphQL

• Experience with building gRPC API

 The salary range for this position is $125,200 - 183,900. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change. 

Why Cruise?

• Our benefits are here to support the whole you:

• Competitive salary and benefits 
• 401(k) Cruise matching program 
• Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and Life
• One Medical membership
• Subsidized mental health benefits
• Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
• Healthy meals and snacks provided for non-remote employees
• Paid parental, jury duty, bereavement, family care, and