Nuro aims to solve the business problem of efficiently and safely delivering goods and services through autonomous vehicles by developing and scaling the backend systems and onboard modules for their Routing team, which calculates efficient routes, delivers accurate ETAs, and manages scalable traffic.
Requirements
- You have at least 3-5 years of building and scaling realtime server-side applications.
- You have worked on large-scale complex algorithm problems, and know how to balance correctness and performance.
- You are proficient in C++ programming
- You know how to choose the right storage technology for the job.
- You have experience with a wide-range of databases, including relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL), non-relational (BigTable, Cassandra, Redis, etc), and data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, etc).
- You know your way around RPC frameworks (gRPC, Thrift) and pubsub systems (Kafka, Cloud PubSub, Celery, etc).
- You have extensive experience working with cloud providers (GCP, AWS, etc).
Responsibilities
- You will work on building and scaling both the backend systems and onboard modules for the Routing team.
- This includes everything from designing microservices, optimizing our routing algorithms, understanding road network graphs, building monitoring and analytics infrastructure, optimizing our deployment pipeline, and more.
- You will work with product, strategy, and operations teams to design and build new, magical user experiences, and define our product strategy and roadmap.
Other
- You have a wide-range of technical skills, you love learning new technologies and you’re a quick learner.
- You have a passion for making lives easier for developers.
- You have the knack for making the right tradeoffs.
- You care about users.
- You are a great communicator, and you regularly chat with PMs, UXRs, other engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders on product requirements and designs.
