Staff Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• High quality code practices: Set the standard and demonstrate high quality coding practices for major features and system changes.
• Architectural Leadership: Provide high-level architectural direction to ensure scalability, performance, and reliability across the Core API, Developer Experience and OEM engineering teams.
• Async Streaming & Core API Guidance: Provide technical direction for the Core API team to build reliable, scalable systems that enable efficient utilization of OEM integrations for REST, real-time data streaming and event-based interactions for our customers.
• OEM Adapter Guidance: Work with the OEM Adapter Engineering team in creating efficient, secure, and robust integrations with vehicle manufacturers (OEM’s), ensuring compatibility and smooth operation with our platform.
• Customer-focused Developer Experience: Work closely with the Developer Experience team to design tools, documentation, and workflows that improve the onboarding process and overall experience for external developers integrating with the Smartcar API platform.
• Mentorship & Leadership: Mentor engineers across teams, fostering technical excellence and a customer-first mindset. Help guide team members through complex engineering challenges while promoting best practices.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to enhance development workflows, architecture, and customer-facing processes, with a focus on reducing friction for developers using our API platform.
• Performance & Scalability of our Infrastructure: Drive initiatives that improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our APIs and services, ensuring they meet the evolving needs of our customers and business.
• Innovation & Best Practices: Stay updated on the latest technologies and industry trends, and advocate for the adoption of tools and techniques that improve both engineering efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Who You Are

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with a strong background in distributed systems, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Proven experience as a technical leader, providing architectural guidance and influencing cross-functional teams.
• Expertise in building and maintaining high-performance, scalable APIs and streaming systems.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, microservices architecture, and asynchronous communication patterns.
• Hands-on experience with programming languages such as Javascript and Python with proficiency in other relevant languages.
• Experience working with event-based architectures (Kinesis, SQS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar), streaming platforms, and RESTful APIs.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across multiple teams and disciplines.
• Proven track record of mentoring engineers and guiding teams through complex technical challenges.

Bonus

• Familiarity with automotive or IoT integrations is a plus.
• Experience with OEM vehicle data integrations and automotive protocols.
• Strong background in improving developer onboarding and API utilization for external customers.
• Experience with cloud platforms specifically AWS and CI/CD pipelines.
• Prior experience working in high-growth B2B SaaS companies.

Manager

• Ashwin Kumar, Sr. Director of Engineering

Your Team

• Steve Peck, CTO
• Robert Simari
• Adrian Garcia
• Bharath Gunasekaran
• Aytekin Ozdemir
• Brandon Rothweiler
• Edward Kelly
• Nathan Bryant
• Mantej Dheri
• Jacob Smith
• Josh Bowers
• Haig Hovsepian
• Mike Hertz
• Edwin

Compensation and Benefits Package

• Base salary determined by years of experience: $180,000 - $225,000.
• Equity.
• Remote work within the United States.
• Health, Dental and Vision covered at 90% for all plans and 80% coverage for dependents, which amounts to approximately 11 thousand dollars a year.
• 401K matching at 4%.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Wellness stipend of $50 a month.
• Cell phone and Internet stipend of $50 a month.
• $300 yearly learning and development stipend.
• $350 work-from-home stipend.
• 8 weeks of 100% paid parental leave with an additional 4 weeks unpaid, 1-week half day ramp back time and a 5 week Factor subscription.
• 10 days of paid bereavement leave.

Expected Hours

• You are free to work standard work hours for your time zone. One important note: Most of the team is based on the west coast therefore please expect to be available between the hours of 9AM and 4PM PT for outreach or meetings. We will do our best to ensure meetings are not late in your evening, but will not always be able to do so

Sponsorship

• We do not currently support any new sponsorship opportunities or sponsorship transfers for this role

Recruiter For This Role

• Jackie Leary