Senior Software Engineer, Ride Hailing Product

Nuro•Mountain View, CA

8d•$176,000 - $264,000

About The Position

Nuro is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Ride Hailing Product team. This role focuses on architecting performant, reliable distributed systems, processing real-time vehicle data, and building foundational APIs for seamless product experiences. The position requires technical excellence, a deep understanding of system design, and problem-solving skills. The On-Road Experience team builds the real-time distributed system behind Nuro's ride-hailing product, which is foundational infrastructure where correctness and performance are critical for real-world operations.

Requirements

6+ years of backend engineering experience
Experience designing and operating distributed systems where reliability isn't optional
End-to-end product ownership — from requirements through launch and iteration
Solid hands-on experience with GCP (CloudSQL, BigQuery, Redis, or equivalent)
A track record of technical leadership: setting the bar, mentoring others, making hard trade-offs

Nice To Haves

Dispatch, fleet, location, or delivery/ride platform experience
Experience building systems where the physical world is the end user
Domain Expertise: Experience with backend services related to vehicles, location, dispatch, inventory, or order/ride/delivery.
Product and Business Acumen: A keen interest in the "why" in addition to the "how." Eager to understand and contribute to product and business requirements, capable of identifying high-impact projects from a list of potential initiatives.

Responsibilities

Backend services for ride planning, vehicle matching, and real-time trip execution
Partner API integrations (Uber and others) routing ride requests to Nuro vehicles
Telemetry pipelines surfacing live vehicle state to riders and operations