Senior Software Engineer-Backend

Scout Motors • Fremont, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Sales Engineering team, you will be a core contributor to the systems that power our end-to-end customer vehicle purchase journey. From trade-in and vehicle configuration through finance, leasing, and delivery — you will build reliable, well-crafted backend services and work hands-on with the third-party integrations that bring those capabilities to life. You will collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and external partners to ship features that directly impact how customers experience buying a vehicle. You'll take ownership of meaningful pieces of the stack, contribute to technical decisions within your team, and grow your scope over time. This role is ideal for an engineer who writes thoughtful, production-quality code, takes pride in building things that work reliably, and wants to deepen their experience in a complex, high-stakes transactional domain.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
• 5+ years in software development, with a focus on back-end technologies
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, both independently and as part of a team
• Proficiency in one of Go, Node.js, Python, Java, or Ruby
• Experience with both relational and/or non-relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis)
• Experience with identity management systems (e.g., Azure AD, AWS Cognito, LDAP, Okta, Keyclock) and directory services for user authentication and management
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and best practices
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with a passion for finding elegant solutions to complex challenges

Nice To Haves

• Experience building AI/ML platform foundations or developer AI tooling.
• Experience in automotive, mobility, retail, ecommerce, or digital consumer products.
• Experience building multi-tenant platforms and shared enterprise services.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services across the customer purchase journey — writing clean, well-tested, production-quality code that your teammates can rely on and build upon.
• Design and implement APIs, data models, and service logic that are correct, performant, and easy to evolve as requirements change.
• Integrate with third-party providers - valuation services, lender platforms, logistics APIs, and factory systems - building integration layers that are reliable and well-abstracted.
• Apply sound engineering patterns to the challenges of distributed systems: error handling, retries, idempotency, and observability - both within our own services and across external dependencies.
• Take end-to-end ownership of features: from scoping and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring in production.
• Participate actively in code and design reviews: sharing knowledge, catching issues early, and helping maintain a high engineering bar across the team.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and partner teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions that meet real user needs.
• Contribute to improving team practices: documentation, testing standards, on-call processes, and the day-to-day reliability of the systems you own.
• Use AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully to increase your own velocity and share effective practices with teammates.

Benefits

• Competitive insurance including: Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans
• 401(k) program with: An employer match and immediate vesting
• Generous Paid Time Off including: 20 days planned PTO, as accrued
• 40 hours of unplanned PTO and 14 company or floating holidays, annually
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders
• Paid leave for circumstances related to bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave
• Pay Transparency
• Annual performance bonus program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior