Roadie, a UPS Company, is a logistics management and crowdsourced delivery platform. Founded in 2014, Roadie offers businesses fast, flexible and asset-light logistics solutions for last-mile delivery. Roadie enables local delivery to more than 95% of U.S. households by providing access to more than 200,000 independent drivers nationwide – allowing businesses to offer their customers delivery optionality for almost any industry, from airlines to artisans.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will design and build systems to solve large-scale logistics challenges. You will work across teams to evolve the architecture of Roadie’s platform to meet the ever-increasing scalability and performance requirements. The ideal candidate has deep technical knowledge and experience architecting high-scale distributed systems.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the design and implementation of the next generation of the Roadie platform
- Identify system bottlenecks, propose solutions, and implement performance improvements
- Work across the engineering org to refactor existing systems and architect new features and solutions for high-scale
- Partner with engineering leadership to scope and define work
- Mentor engineers across teams, establish coding standards, and drive architectural decisions
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Data Science to deliver features that meet business and technical needs
- Research and evaluate new technologies to improve system performance and solve industry challenges
Technology We're Using Now
- Golang, Ruby on Rails, Python
- Postgres, Redis, Kafka
- AWS
- Docker, Kubernetes
- git, GitHub, CircleCI
What You Bring
- At least 8+ years of software architecture and software development experience
- Strong understanding of service-oriented architecture, distributed systems, and API design
- Expertise in Golang
- Experience in decomposition of a legacy monolith
- Strong communication skills with the ability to distill complex problems into digestible insights
Why Roadie?
- Competitive compensation packages
- 100% covered health insurance premiums for yourself
- 401k with company match
- Tuition and student loan repayment assistance (that’s right - Roadie will contribute directly to your existing student loans!)
- Flexible work schedule with unlimited PTO
- Monthly 3-day weekends
- Monthly WFH stipend
- Paid sabbatical leave- tenured team members are given time to rest, relax, and explore
- The technology you need to get the job done
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What We Do
Roadie is the nation’s first “on the way” crowdsourced delivery platform. Roadie works with consumers, small businesses and big global brands across virtually every industry to provide a faster, cheaper, more scalable solution for scheduled, same-day and urgent delivery. With more than 200,000 active drivers nationwide, Roadie reaches more than 11,000 cities and 20,000 zip codes – the largest local same-day delivery footprint in the nation.
