Senior Software Developer (Motion Team) Engineering

• Work with and build complex frontend features using React;
• Provide frontend leadership and guidance to the team;
• Work with traffic, routing, and vehicle routing algorithms;
• Work with a functional language around 25% of your time (Scala);
• Own features end to end, working with customers and other stakeholders, design and product, building the FE and BE
• Be in a high-impact position, empowered to make decisions that lead us to success while building complex products and features;
• Be involved in product and design discussions, talk with stakeholders like growth and customers and be part of the discussion for what to build;
• Collaborate with and mentor engineers of all levels;
• Actively participate in the day-to-day operations of the team, contributing ideas for how the team can better meet the needs of customers;
• Work on a complex distributed system, where real-time data updates and impacts the system every second
• Help us iterate and improve upon current engineering processes, to improve efficiency and to ensure 99.99% uptime and support the team in doing the same;

About this role✨

• Deliver high-quality code. Design, code, test, document, and release new features using a combination of tools and languages (like Javascript/Typescript, React, Scala, Docker, Kubernetes and GCP, for example);
• Improve routing engine for driver application;
• Participate in team agile rituals;
• Uplift the team capacity (collaborating with engineers of all levels, mentoring junior developers, improving code base);
• Demonstrate an unrelenting focus on quality, speed, and overall excellence;
• Provide input for the ongoing improvement of engineering practices and procedures;
• Be part of on-call SRE team, after fully ramping up to the rest of this roles responsibilities;
• Talk to customers to better understand their needs and how to achieve them
  
  

About the Motion team ✨

• Purposeful work: Be a part of a mission-driven company that is solving real-world problems and improving the lives of people around the world. Learn more about the impact we're making in our 2023 Global Impact Report!
• Growth Opportunities: Spare is growing fast and there is uncapped potential for rapid advancement of motivated high performers on our team! 🚀
• Market-competitive pay: We benchmark roles annually to attract and retain top talent. For Growth roles, we also offer a competitive commission/bonus structure that rewards strong performance. 
• Stock options: Enjoy the feeling of ownership. All Spartians are provided stock options, so you can share in the growth and success of Spare!
• Flexible work: Work remotely from anywhere in Canada, in your own time zone. 
• In-office collaboration: If you're in Metro Vancouver, you have the option to work out of our HQ located downtown, close to Waterfront Station. If you're located elsewhere, you'll have access to CA$200/month to spend on a coworking membership to work together with team members in your city.
• Home office allowance: We recognize the importance of a productive home office setup to help you do your best work, which is why we provide a CA$1,000 home office allowance.
• Team offsites & socials: We love the flexibility of remote work, and we also value the importance of in-person connection. Each team has an annual budget for travel and accommodations to get together for a team offsite or hackathon. Plus you have access to a CA$50 monthly budget to socialize with other Spartians in your city - go out for a meal or hit up a karaoke spot!
• Health insurance: We offer a fully-paid health insurance package for you and your dependents that includes prescription drug, paramedical, mental health, dental, life insurance, travel insurance, and Employee Assistance Program.
• Lifestyle Spending Account: We offer CA$500 per year Lifestyle Spending Account (taxable benefit), which you can use to get reimbursed for a variety of expenses including education, wellness, transportation, and childcare/pet care.
• Paid time off: Along with your three weeks of annual vacation, we offer unlimited sick days and have company-wide shut-down days to help you rest and recharge.
• Parental leave top-up: Top up of up to 80% for 15 weeks to help you adjust to the new addition to your family!