2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Scope, design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, enterprise-ready APIs.
- Improve tenancy and isolation boundaries across violations, citations, and payments systems.
- Partner with Product Management to translate business needs into pragmatic technical solutions.
- Make and communicate engineering trade-offs including build-versus-buy and flexibility-versus-simplicity decisions.
- Operate production systems, respond to incidents, and drive root-cause resolution.
- Mentor and coach engineers while raising the quality of technical design and execution across the team.
- Collaborate with Infrastructure, Product, Support, and other cross-functional teams in a distributed and hybrid environment.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating large-scale production systems.
- 5+ years programming with languages such as Go, Ruby, Java, Python, or Kotlin, or similar languages.
- 5+ years of experience designing and building scalable backend APIs or platform services.
- 3+ years of operational experience owning production systems, diagnosing issues under pressure, and improving reliability.
- Strong understanding of API design, security, data formats and interchange, version control, and CI/CD.
- Experience working directly with Product Management to shape solutions.
- Interest in working as a generalist across technology stacks for internal and external customers.
- Pragmatic technical judgment, ownership, communication, collaboration, and mentoring ability.
- Bonus: knowledge of distributed systems.
- Bonus: experience on platform teams building and maintaining foundational services for product engineers.
Benefits
- Work that supports safer streets and improved road safety.
- Fast-moving Series A startup environment with meaningful ownership.
- Competitive compensation and early-stage equity.
- Hybrid and distributed team environment; role is based in San Carlos, California.
About Obvio
Obvio builds solar-powered, AI-assisted camera systems and software that automate traffic-law enforcement at pedestrian-heavy locations for cities and transportation agencies. The company generates revenue by deploying and operating its hardware-plus-software platform under contracts with municipalities. Headquartered in San Carlos, California, this privately held firm reports that early partner cities saw a 50% reduction in reckless driving after deployment.