Staff Engineer

Posted 23 Days Ago
New York, NY
240K Annually
Automotive • eCommerce • Food • Internet of Things • Logistics
Wonder is revolutionizing home dining and making it better. Pull up a seat to our table.
The Role
As a Staff Engineer at Relay, you will be responsible for backend development to enhance logistics software, focusing on optimizing deliveries per hour and reducing delivery times. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve delivery metrics and build a scalable platform.
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About Us

Imagine: 30 unique restaurants to order from, brought to your door in under 30 minutes. That’s what our customers experience.

At Wonder, we want to make world-class food within reach, no matter where you live. That’s why we’ve created a vertically integrated, new standard of dining that will allow you to enjoy menus from award-winning chefs and iconic restaurants across the country, all in one place. Our elevated brick + mortar locations will offer pick up and dine in options, as well as delivery to your home.

As a food-tech startup backed by top-tier venture capitalists and led by a team of experienced entrepreneurs—including some of the most accomplished leaders in the technology, culinary, and logistics industries—we’re growing. Join us in pioneering a new category of dining called “Fast-Fine”, and revolutionizing the way people eat.

About the role

Relay, a subsidiary of Wonder, is revolutionizing delivery logistics by optimizing courier routing in urban and suburban markets. We have built a robust platform to improve delivery efficiency and accuracy, supporting a key metric—deliveries per hour—while also working to reduce overall delivery times at Wonder but also across all of our client companies, resulting in over 40k daily deliveries.  

As a Staff Engineer, you will be a key member of the core platform team at Relay. Your primary responsibility will be backend development to enhance our logistics software that optimizes deliveries per hour for our couriers. This role is focused on carrying out a platform for our courier operations team to use. You will work closely with geospatial data, real-time location tracking, and delivery-related data to ensure our platform continues to improve both efficiency and delivery times.  

Key Responsibilities: 

  • Develop and maintain logistics software that routes couriers through complex urban and suburban environments.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize our core platform's delivery metrics, focusing on improving deliveries per hour while reducing delivery times.
  • Implement and enhance capabilities around job offers, geospatial data, real-time location tracking, and courier performance.
  • Work closely with other backend engineers to build a robust and scalable platform that ensures smooth operations.
  • Continuously refine system architecture and code to optimize performance and support future growth. 

Tech Stack: 

  • Primary Technologies: Node.js, RabbitMQ, Websockets, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Python
  • Additional Tools/Frameworks: React-native, Terraform, Jenkins 

The experience you have

  • Proven experience in backend development, ideally with Node.js.
  • Strong experience with databases such as MongoDB and PostgreSQL.
  • Understanding of geospatial data processing and real-time tracking systems.
  • Familiarity with DevOps tools like Terraform and CI/CD pipelines like Jenkins.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and tackle complex logistical challenges.
  • Strong analytical mindset, focused on optimizing key metrics such as deliveries per hour. 

Preferred Experience: 

  • Experience working in logistics, delivery routing, or a related field.
  • Expertise in working with message brokers such as RabbitMQ and Websockets for real-time systems
  • Exposure to Python for backend services or automation scripting. 

Why Relay? At Relay, you'll have the opportunity to be part of a cutting-edge logistics platform that's actively solving complex real-world challenges. You'll collaborate with a passionate and dedicated team, leveraging innovative technology to impact delivery systems that power the future of last-mile logistics. 

The way you work

  • You work best under full autonomy; you are curious and proactive at solving meaningful problems.
  • You solve problems and make decisions informed by data, insights, and good judgement.
  • You gain trust through open dialogue, embracing change, and actively seeking feedback.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary package including equity and 401K. Additionally, we provide multiple medical, dental, and vision plans to meet all of our employees' needs as well as many benefits and perks that are not listed.  

Base Salary: $239,500 (plus equity)

A final note 

At Wonder, we believe that in order to build the best team, we must hire using an objective lens.  We are committed to fair hiring practices where we hire people for their potential and advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion.  As such, we do not discriminate or make decisions based on your race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.  If you have a disability, please let your recruiter know how we can make your interview process work best for you.

We look forward to hearing from you! We'll contact you via email or text to schedule interviews and share information about your candidacy. 

Top Skills

MongoDB
Node.js
Postgres
Python
RabbitMQ
The Company
HQ: New York, NY
500 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

Wonder is a fast-growing, food-tech startup that’s raising the bar on the role food plays in peoples’ lives. We’re a team of food-lovers, entrepreneurs, and some of the most accomplished innovators in the culinary, logistics, and technology industries. Backed by top-tier venture capitalists, we’re moving quickly to pioneer the future of food.

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