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UP.Labs is a first-of-its-kind venture lab unlocking the future of transportation and mobility.
The Role
Design, build, and scale backend systems, ensuring reliable APIs and services while collaborating on cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices.
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UP.Labs Summary
UP.Labs is a dynamic venture studio dedicated to building innovative startup companies from the ground up. Our team thrives on solving complex problems, driving technological advancements, and creating impactful digital products. We’re seeking a highly skilled professional to join our growing team and contribute to our mission of launching the next wave of successful startups.
You will design, build, and scale backend systems that power new venture products, translating business needs into reliable APIs and services. You will strengthen delivery by partnering on cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices to improve performance, security, and operational excellence.
- Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs that support product features and integrate with internal and external systems.
- Build and optimize data models and queries to ensure consistent performance, reliability, and data integrity.
- Contribute to DevOps and cloud infrastructure practices, including deployments, automation, monitoring, and incident response.
- Collaborate closely with product and engineering partners to scope work, ship iteratively, and uphold quality through code reviews and testing.
- Strong backend engineering experience delivering production services with clear ownership for reliability, maintainability, and performance.
- Proficiency building services with Node and Typescript, including modern API design and service-to-service communication.
- Proficiency building services and automation with Python.
- Experience using PostgreSQL in production, including schema design, query optimization, and troubleshooting.
- Experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure and automation with Terraform.
- Familiarity running and maintaining workloads on Kubernetes.
- Experience working with GCP.
- Experience building services with .NET Core.
We build high-growth technology startups that enable faster, cleaner, and safer movement of people and goods. Our vision is to transform the moving world by pairing leading corporations and entrepreneurs with a proven methodology for launching and scaling software and hardware companies.
We work with corporate investors over a multi-year period to launch a portfolio of mobility-focused ventures. Our team is dedicated to the first year of a new venture’s life cycle, from ideation to minimum viable product build (and beyond) to recruiting and hiring the full-time team who will scale the business.
Location: Remote
Skills Required
- Backend engineering experience delivering production services
- Proficiency building services with Node and Typescript
- Proficiency with Python for services and automation
- Experience using PostgreSQL in production
- Experience with Terraform for cloud infrastructure
- Familiarity with Kubernetes
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The Company
What We Do
We work with global corporate partners to identify the most pressing challenges that they, and broader society, face. Inspired by these complex problems, we launch startups built by proven entrepreneurs, product leaders and technologists that use their agility and talent to develop transformative solutions. After these companies have matured and proven market fit, our corporate partners are able to acquire them, reaping strategic value while enriching their culture and core business. We believe this to be the shortest road to a faster, cleaner, safer, and more accessible future.
Why Work With Us
We launch and innovate 6-8 portfolio organizations a year where no day is the same.
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