Beacon - Senior Backend Software Engineer

Who We Are

Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly to make transportation safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. The Aurora Driver is a self-driving system designed to operate multiple vehicle types, from freight-hauling semi-trucks to ride-hailing passenger vehicles, and underpins Aurora Horizon and Aurora Connect, its driver-as-a-service products for trucking and ride-hailing. Aurora is working with industry leaders across the transportation ecosystem, including Toyota, FedEx, Volvo Trucks, PACCAR, Uber, Uber Freight, U.S. Xpress, Werner, Covenant, Schneider, and Ryder. For Aurora’s latest news, visit aurora.tech and @aurora_inno on Twitter.

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. We are searching for a Backend Software Engineer to join Aurora's Beacon Engineering team and take on a critical role in building Aurora's suite of fleet management tools.

The Beacon Engineering team creates services and web applications that enable commercial operation of autonomous vehicle fleets at scale. Our mission is to build the software that will be used daily by human operators to coordinate the business side of our platform - evaluating route feasibility, assigning work to autonomous vehicles, and managing their operation. As Aurora prepares to massively scale its fleet and integrate with partners on an API level, the tools we build will be critical to the efficient daily operation of our business.

As a Backend Engineer in Beacon Engineering, you will join a team that builds interactive tools, services, and onboard modules used to monitor and interact with active autonomous vehicles and the routes they are operating on. You will add new features to existing products and greenfield completely new ones. Your contributions will have a significant impact on the way fleet operations function at Aurora. 

In this role, you will

• Build backend services running in Aurora’s AWS cloud used to monitor and manage the location and activity of our entire autonomous fleet.
• Integrate with real-time streaming data coming directly from autonomous vehicles. 
• Work with your teammates to establish new technologies and approaches to backend and onboard development as our stack matures.
• Contribute to and evolve our team culture around mentorship, feedback, collaboration, and engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with product and design stakeholders to plan features and build high-quality, extensible, and polished experiences.

You will be a good fit if you have

• Phenomenal communication skills. We build software for people. We build software with people. You know how to write an effective technical spec, provide feedback to others, translate technical concepts into lay terms, and incorporate feedback into your efforts. You value and practice openness, empathy, kindness, and collaboration.
• A preference for action. You will use good judgment to balance speed and quality. You will deliver products that are built in a responsible and sustainable way. You will use a self-starter mentality to thrive in a growing environment where all hands are on deck, and consider no obstacle too big or too small. You will notice where there is a need and will hustle to fill it.
• The drive to make teams stronger. You're excited to work hard and fast to the finish line on new opportunities with a collaborative and integrated team. You will be proactive in engaging conflict with openness, patience and kindness in an environment where it is safe to lean on each other and learn from failures.
• Motivation to own the product lifecycle end to end. You’re happy to engage with our product and design teams and our internal customers to understand their needs and find ways to meet them. You ensure that product development stays on course all the way through release and post-release support.
• Strong backend service engineering skills. We use modern technologies to build our products including Golang, gRPC, GraphQL, Postgres, Kubernetes, and AWS. We’re happy to help you learn and adapt to our stack.
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Desirable experience

• Experience with the underlying technologies that make full stack applications work. Our applications communicate with microservice backends via gRPC and HTTP.