Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Logistics

Nimble Robotics•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Nimble is an AI robotics company building the autonomous supply chain to power fast, efficient and economical commerce. We’re training robot AGI to power a proprietary generalist supply chain superhumanoid, the first robot in the world capable of performing thousands of tasks across the supply chain. We’ve raised over $220M at over $1B valuation and formed a strategic alliance with FedEx to build a national network of autonomous warehouses capable of generating many billions in annual revenue. We are a hardcore and obsessed team of the world’s best engineers and operators. If you are obsessed with your craft, enjoy a high-intensity and fast moving high impact environment, are super high agency in getting hard things done and want to be part of building the world’s most legendary robotics company at the most pivotal moment in history, we want to work with you. We are on a mission to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial. We will accomplish this by training robot AGI to invent and build the Autonomous Supply Chain – everything from the inside of factories and warehouses to your front door – powered by generalist superhumanoids. Our founding team comes from the AI labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon and our board of directors include famed robotics and AI legends including Fei-Fei Li (Chief Scientist of AI at Google and Director of Stanford’s AI Lab), Marc Raibert (founder of Boston Dynamics), and Sebastian Thrun (founder of GoogleX, Waymo; Stanford Professor and considered the father of autonomous vehicles). Let’s be legendary. Nimble's Cloud Logistics software team builds the in-house suite of cloud-native solutions that drive Nimble’s operations and customer integrations. Nimble has developed an all-in-one platform of next-generation solutions, including Warehouse Management System (“WMS”), Transportation Management System (“TMS”), Order Management System (“OMS”), Inventory Management System (“IMS”), and Returns Management System (“RMS”). The entire software stack is native, in-house developed and streamlines customer onboarding through a single integration that eliminates reliance on third-party providers. As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will be both a technical anchor for product development, and mentor for junior engineers. You will play a critical role in working with our world-class cross-functional team to help develop and build the world’s most advanced robotic fulfillment system! Nimble Cloud Logistics is a lean, 10-person team that is core to delivering effective solutions to Nimble’s customers. On occasion, the team is expected to work extended hours, including weekends, to launch large revenue opportunities for the company. This role is approximately 70% backend, 30% frontend focused. Please note, no robotics or logistics experience required for this role.

Requirements

Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
4+ years of industry experience
Basic understanding of cloud security practices
Experience building full stack cloud applications (both frontend and backend)
Experience with REST, SQL, CI/CD, AWS, Kubernetes, message brokering, and Docker
Experience with SQL query/schema optimization
Experience debugging and fixing performance issues
Strong technical documentation skills (architecture diagrams + sequence diagramming)
Strong leadership mindset
Strong self learning and improvement mindset

Nice To Haves

AWS EKS
Terraform
Gitlab CI
GoLang
GraphQL
React
Vite
Typescript
Argo
PostgreSQL

Responsibilities

Set technical direction by wearing both tech lead and architect hats
Own larger initiatives with technical design creation, technical design reviews, and delegating development tasks to others. Examples: Introducing Temporal.io into more parts of the stack, solving optimization problems related to customer order routing and splitting, etc. (1) optimizing performance bottlenecks and (2) designing and implementing complex architecture changes
Influence the overall technical roadmap for the team
Drive feature development and launch
Support sprint planning, and cross-disciplinary hand-offs with operations, customer success, and hardware, AI/ML, and robotics engineering teams.
Challenge product requirements and drive consensus to improved solutions
Hands on execution: Take full ownership of landing features with tweaking existing frontend, backend, tooling, CI, and infrastructure.
Perform hands-on coding, code reviews, on-call production support for live production, debugging on production incidents and performance bottlenecks in a suite of microservices, product design review and technical design reviews.
Continuous improvement: Uphold high bar for best practices and suggest changes to coding standards style guides
Serve as a mentor for junior engineers