Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Summary

Join Lime, the world's largest shared electric vehicle company, as a Software Engineer (Backend) on the City Success Engineering team! This critical role directly impacts Lime's global market expansion and revolutionizes urban commutes. You will identify and solve technical problems, architect scalable platforms, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate possesses 4+ years of software development experience, a strong problem-solving mindset, and excellent communication skills. Lime offers competitive salaries, performance-based bonuses, equity, and comprehensive benefits, including health and wellness offerings, flexible vacation policies, parental leave, retirement support, and professional growth opportunities.

Requirements

• 4+ years of industry professional software development experience, and a track record of building impactful products or systems
• Owner’s mindset. You're a self-starter and get things across the finish line, focusing on impact
• Work Cross functionally. Experience leading projects and collaborating with mobile engineers, product managers and data scientists
• Data driven. You have a strong data insight and rely on data to make decisions
• Excellent communication and effective prioritization skills in working with competing priorities
• Passionate. You’re passionate about Lime's mission and micromobility; you want to see cities transform to become people-centric and less polluted

Responsibilities

• Identify, define, and solve strategically essential technical problems, including architecting and building highly scalable foundational platforms, leading new product initiatives, and revamping core application experiences
• Involve in the cross-functional collaboration with PMs, Engineers, Design, Data Scientists, Research, and Operations teams
• Design and build scalable solutions to handle the problems facing micro-mobility tomorrow by collaborating with mobile developers
• Design and build high quality solutions to enable cities to have a good experience with Lime and for Lime and riders to have a safe experience with cities
• Participate, Ideate, develop and shape the future of micro-mobility as we and our industry ventures into new markets and city regulations

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in evolving startups
• Expert on backend programing and scaling systems, leading projects ground up
• Experience in Ruby on Rails

Benefits

• Competitive salaries, performance-based annual bonus and pre-IPO equity
• Health and wellness offerings for all team members starting day one including access to top-tier fitness and mindfulness apps
• Flexible vacation policies with ample paid holidays tailored to country of residence
• Fully-paid leave following the birth or adoption of a child and financial, medical and educational support for Limers pursuing parenthood
• Support for retirement and financial goals with unlimited access to financial advisors
• Unlimited, complimentary use of our vehicles in hundreds of cities around the world
• Professional growth opportunities through quarterly learning days and top-tier tools
• Opportunities to connect across teams and locations to network, socialize and volunteer
• Culture of belonging with Employee Resource Groups that engage and promote cultural awareness and DEI training across all functions
• Consistent recognition of great work through meaningful rewards and career advancements