Back-End Engineer - Fleet Management
CloudKitchens20 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$176k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs for fleet-management products and workflows.
- Develop data models, pipelines, and service integrations for operational and fleet data.
- Own backend systems from architecture and implementation through deployment, observability, and ongoing operation.
- Design for reliability, scalability, debuggability, performance, and clear operational ownership.
- Partner with full-stack and product engineers to define interfaces and enable product development.
- Work with engineering and operational stakeholders to translate real-world requirements into technical solutions.
- Investigate complex production issues across services, data, and system boundaries and drive them to resolution.
- Contribute to technical direction and engineering standards as the Fleet Management platform grows.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production backend systems.
- Experience designing APIs, services, data models, and distributed or data-intensive systems.
- Strong understanding of system design, reliability, performance, and engineering tradeoffs.
- Experience working with databases and complex or high-volume data.
- Generalist engineering instincts and willingness to work beyond a narrowly defined backend scope.
- Ability to operate effectively in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment with substantial ownership.
- Strong communication skills and a track record of driving technical projects from design through production.
- Experience with fleet management, logistics, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other operationally complex systems is preferred.
- Experience with real-time, streaming, telemetry, event-driven architectures, data platforms, AI/ML capabilities, AI-enabled developer workflows, or startup and zero-to-one engineering is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
- Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account options.
- 401(k), equity, sick time, unlimited flexible time off, paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
- Pre-tax commuter benefit plan.
- Team lunch in the SoMa office every Tuesday and Thursday.
- Based in the San Francisco office and onsite five days per week for office-based teams.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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About CloudKitchens
CloudKitchens builds delivery-first commercial kitchen facilities and restaurant software for food and beverage operators. It leases turnkey kitchen space and provides tools for order management, delivery logistics, and multi-brand operations, enabling restaurants and entrepreneurs to expand with lower upfront costs. The company is privately held and headquartered in Los Angeles, serving markets across the U.S. with a mix of owned sites and enterprise solutions.