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, while respecting the environment, past, and future.
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 integrating with 3rd party platforms and partnering with external service providers.
- Experience as a technical lead for large projects (6+ months in length), including defining the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions
- Ability to internalize the best ideas from across the organization, humbly setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
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.
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering and scaling software products, providing technical leadership and direction for development
- 3+ years in leading high-performing software engineering teams.
- Ability to convene with Scout colleagues in person and travel to participate in events on behalf of the company from time to time
- 1 day per week attendance in office with in-person meetings and events regularly
