Ever wanted to tell people, “Yeah, I helped launch the future of transportation”? Well, here’s your shot. At Vay, we’re flipping the script on mobility with Remote driving—delivering cars to customers with zero hassle and zero driver inside, offering a unique by the minute car rental service. We’re already live in Las Vegas, and trust us, we’re just getting started.
Our journey so far since our launch in 2018:
Revolutionary remote driving tech- We built the world’s first commercial remote driving product.
Breaking boundaries across continents- First to roll out vehicles in both Europe and the USA on public roads without a human being inside & one of only two companies in the States operating a commercial driverless service.
Vegas fleet on the rise- Our vehicle fleet is scaling fast, from 20 to 100 cars in Las Vegas. We’re just getting started!
Watch our CEO, Thomas von der Ohe, deliver a live news segment on CNN - VayDrive
Discover what drives our culture- Explore our core values
Why this role is awesome:
At Vay, we’re revolutionizing mobility with cutting-edge remote driving technology, and we need exceptional engineers to bring this vision to life. As a Backend Engineer, you’ll tackle complex, never-before-solved challenges at the intersection of deep tech and mobility.
You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to build scalable backend services that power fleet management, dispatch, payments, and real-time APIs—ensuring a seamless, safe, and efficient experience for drivers and customers. Every line of code you write will have real impact, shaping the future of transportation.
If you love solving hard problems and want to push the boundaries of mobility, this is where you belong.
What you'll be driving:
- Design & Develop: Build and maintain scalable Golang-based backend services, APIs, and cloud infrastructure as code—leveraging CI/CD to ensure seamless deployments.
- Elevate Engineering Excellence: Contribute to cross-team platform engineering initiatives, shaping shared best practices, tools, and libraries to drive efficiency and innovation.
- Build End-to-End Solutions: Work closely with frontend, mobile, and embedded teams to craft seamless, high-impact solutions that directly enhance the customer experience and business operations.
- Drive Product & Technical Vision: Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to refine goals, define requirements, and actively contribute to sprint and quarterly planning.
- Own Quality & Reliability: Champion clean code, automation, and continuous monitoring, ensuring robustness, scalability, and a world-class developer experience.
What are we looking for:
- Education & Fundamentals – Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related STEM field, with a strong grasp of algorithms and data structures.
- Backend Expertise – Hands-on experience developing scalable backend services and APIs, preferably in Golang (experience in Java or Python is also highly relevant).
- Cloud & Distributed Systems – Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, scalability, and reliability best practices.
- Event-Driven Architectures – Familiarity with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar event-driven messaging systems
- DevOps & Infrastructure – Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and monitoring to ensure robust and maintainable deployments.
- Database Proficiency – Strong knowledge of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), with an understanding of data modeling and optimization.
Nice to Have:
- Industry Experience: Background in Mobility, Logistics, or similar domains.
- Mobile-First Products: Experience working on products with a strong mobile integration.
- Additional Tech Stack: Familiarity with Node.js, gRPC, AWS, Terraform, or NoSQL databases.
- Low-Level Programming: Proficiency with C/C++ for performance-critical components.
Why Vay?
🧠 Genius level team - Work with the smartest minds from over 30 countries around the world in deep tech & automotive
🌍 Huge scope for impact in a fast paced environment
💰 Salary + stock options
🌴 Unlimited Paid Vacation Days
🎫 Subsidised BVG transport ticket (Berlin)
🏋️♂️ Subsidised gym membership
🛍️ Exclusive external discounts
🍎 Snacks & Drinks in waterfront Berlin office
🏦 Pension contributions
🎊 Fun team events throughout the year
Introduction to Vay
For more information regarding Vay's physical demands, working environments, and safety requirements, please review this link for additional details. Please note, details of what pertains to this role will be discussed during the initial interview.
If you want to be part of something groundbreaking, let’s chat! We highly encourage & welcome applicants from all walks of life to help us create a better future for our world 🚗💨
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What We Do
Vay's first commercial service is now live in Las Vegas, Nevada: By-minute rental cars. Delivered driverless.
Vay is the first company to drive a car without a person inside on public streets in Europe and the US, enabled by teledriving (e.g. remote driving) technology. Vay aims to launch a sustainable, affordable, door-to-door mobility service with remotely driven ("teledriven") cars: Teledrivers bring an electric car to the customer and pick it up after the journey is completed, eliminating the time-consuming search for a parking spot for the customer. While in the car, the customers drive themselves.
Vay sees teledriving as an alternative approach to autonomous driving and aims to gradually introduce autonomous functions in its system based on high-quality teledrive data.
Vay was founded in Berlin in 2018 by Thomas von der Ohe, Fabrizio Scelsi and Bogdan Djukic. Vay's team of 150+ people combines the best of two worlds - software & product experience from Silicon Valley and automotive hardware & safety engineering from Europe. The company has offices in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany, as well as in Las Vegas, USA. Vay raised a USD 95m Series B funding round.
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