Scout Motors is looking to revolutionize the electric pick-up truck & rugged SUV marketplace by developing digital products and solutions for customers and business partners.
Requirements
Experience building comprehensive understanding of APIs, microservices, and other complex backend systems.
Strong coding skills, navigating codebases with different languages (GoLang, Java, Kotlin and Swift) and tools, building and managing ci/cd pipelines supporting both web and mobile releases.
Knowledge of 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 (6+ 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.
4+ years in leading high-performing software engineering teams.
Responsibilities
Work with engineers & technical leaders across the company to ship interoperable products and systems on strong foundations that manage customer interactions inside and outside of the vehicle.
Partner with cross-functional partners (from product and design) to produce how and when plans to support systems and product requirements.
Assess and recommend key tools and technology decisions that will power the digital product ecosystem.
Develop technology and best practices capable of supporting scalable, functional, and reliable software products and their associated integrations.
Develop and lead the team to execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps.
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.
10+ years of experience in software engineering and scaling software products, providing technical leadership and direction for development
Ability to internalize the best ideas from across the organization, humbly setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
4+ years in leading high-performing software engineering teams.
Travel to participate in events on behalf of the company from time to time