Senior Engineer, Back Platform

Zum • Redwood City, CA

79d • $180,000 - $240,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Zum is a rapidly expanding Series E startup backed by industry leaders Sequoia Capital, SoftBank, Spark Capital, and GIC, with a bold mission to transform the stagnant school transportation industry. Operating in over 15 states across the United States-with flagship hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle-we are actively extending our reach to the East Coast and Midwest regions. As a technology-driven company, we deploy cutting-edge solutions to manage and operate school district transportation systems while also launching our own charter platform and developing proprietary SaaS offerings. Additionally, we are spearheading a nationwide initiative to electrify school transportation fleets, simultaneously supporting local utilities by feeding much-needed energy back into the grid. We have been recognized as a CNBC 50 disruptor, Financial Times 500 fastest growing companies, and Fast Company's World Changing Ideas. This is a hybrid position based out of our headquarters in Redwood City, CA. You will be required to be on-site a minimum of 3 days per week (Monday - Thursday). We will only consider candidates already located in the Bay Area.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent degrees.
• 5+ years of industry experience as a Software Engineer.
• Experience in building enterprise software platforms.
• Hands-on architecture design and coding skills.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases.
• Excellence in one or more programming languages - Node.js, Java, Python.
• Hands-on experience with deploying and managing apps on the cloud - AWS/Google.

Nice To Haves

• Passionate about working for a mission-driven company.
• Experience working in the transportation industry.
• Strong experience with NodeJS and Typescript.

Responsibilities

• You will be the owner of one or more backend platform verticals.
• Build customer-facing product features and expand platform capabilities.
• Build microservices with the latest technologies like Kubernetes, Kafka, Postgres, gRPC, etc.
• Contribute towards establishing good engineering practices - write high-quality, maintainable, testable, and scalable code, and perform code reviews.
• Develop applications to improve visibility and traceability across the system using tools like Datadog, Rollbar, Segment, etc.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)
• Holidays
• Wellness
• Vacation
• Stock options

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees