Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Wing, a Google company, and become a Software Engineer on the Geospatial Infrastructure team, based in Palo Alto, CA or remotely in the US. This crucial team builds and manages scalable geospatial systems for Wing's drone delivery operations, focusing on data ingestion, optimized indexing, and serving infrastructure for flight planning and navigation. The role requires setting solution strategies, influencing team direction, and making direct technical contributions. You will collaborate with various teams, design and build complex systems, and resolve urgent issues. The position offers a competitive salary, bonus, equity, and benefits. Wing is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing and developing backend software
• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Excellent written and verbal skills and experience working in a collaborative team
• Ability to identify challenging problems and potential solutions with limited guidance, launch and successfully land the solution without any complications
• Experience developing backend systems involving database schema design, and synchronous/asynchronous systems
• Experience developing in C++, or ability to quickly pick up C++ with experience in similar languages like Java, or C#

Responsibilities

• Set solution and/or architectural strategy for yourself or a limited number of peers, cutting through ambiguity, and pre-empt complicating factors ahead of time
• Design and build solutions that utilize asynchronous pipelines, database systems, RPC handlers in collaboration with frontend engineers and other backend engineers, in a privacy and security conscious ecosystem
• Investigate and build software in areas with limited expertise and make an immediate impact
• Collaborate cross functionally with business partners, product managers, and program managers to design, implement and quickly launch new features for partners and end consumers, on time
• Mitigate, root cause and resolve urgent, time sensitive issues, in both familiar and unfamiliar software, as part of an on-call rotation, or other escalations
• Contribute to a team culture of support, engagement and quality, ensuring Wing can scale as a business

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits