Scout Motors is looking to revolutionize the electric pick-up truck & rugged SUV marketplace by developing digital solutions for their customers and business partners, including order management, customer management, marketing, production, inventory and planning optimization, loyalty, merchandise, servicing and repairs, mobile app, and vehicle connectivity.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
- Building and scaling software products and backend systems, providing technical leadership and direction for development, preferably with a focus on ecommerce, payments, digital products, and back-end platform development.
- Hands-on system design skills, comfortable with navigating codebases with different languages and familiar with devops practices.
- Knowledge of security best practices, potential system vulnerabilities and how to prevent them.
- Experience operating in start-up settings, launching 0 to 1 product, supporting early low-code tools, and driving graduation to highly customized applications.
- Experience as a technical lead for large projects (12+ months in length), including defining the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions.
- Experience integrating with 3rd party platforms and partnering with external service providers.
Responsibilities
- Partner with cross-functional and cross-organization partners (product, design, IT, marketing, vehicle connectivity, etc) to produce digital products engineering strategy and execution plans to support systems and product requirements.
- Lead engineers & technical leaders across the company to ship interoperable core products and systems - including yard management, fleet management, tasks, authorizations, payments, scheduling, charging, navigation, data and AI, and more – al built on robust core infrastructure and platform that will support customer interactions inside and outside of the vehicle.
- Assess and recommend key tools and technology decisions that will power the digital product ecosystem.
- Develop technology and support engineering culture through building best processes, policies and practices that enables scalable, functional, and reliable software products.
- Develop and lead team to execute against both short-term and long-term goals for the team, prioritize roadmap and lead the team to execute.
- Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale, and taming complexity and shoring up reliability of existing systems
- Champion software engineering and operational excellence, establishing and improving metrics and processes.
Other
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field.
- Ability to internalize the best ideas from across the organization, humbly setting a vision that others are excited to get behind.
- 5+ years in leading and managing high-performing software engineering teams.
- Direct evidence of the ability to guide, motivate, and inspire a team towards the successful completion of complex projects.
- This role is based out of a Scout Motors location in Fremont, CA.
