Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Smartcar's engineering team as a Staff Software Engineer and provide technical leadership and strategic guidance across multiple engineering groups. Collaborate with product, engineering, and architecture leaders to enhance Smartcar’s core platform, focusing on reliability, scalability, performance, and customer-centric developer productivity. As a technical leader, you will design and architect solutions to improve the engineering team, customer experience, and developer onboarding. This remote role within the United States offers a competitive compensation and benefits package. Smartcar is a leading developer platform for mobility businesses, serving customers such as Uber and Turo. The role involves mentoring engineers and driving initiatives to improve the performance and scalability of Smartcar's APIs and services.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• Set the standard and demonstrate high quality coding practices for major features and system changes
• Provide high-level architectural direction to ensure scalability, performance, and reliability across the Core API, Developer Experience and OEM engineering teams
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Mentor engineers across teams, fostering technical excellence and a customer-first mindset. Help guide team members through complex engineering challenges while promoting best practices
• Identify opportunities to enhance development workflows, architecture, and customer-facing processes, with a focus on reducing friction for developers using our API platform
• 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
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• 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