Fullstack Software Engineer, Coco
$100-140k
Office located in Santa Monica, CA
15-minute last-mile delivery robots
Job no longer available
15-minute last-mile delivery robots
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$100-140k
Office located in Santa Monica, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create a frictionless, reliable, consistent, and sustainable delivery experience for merchants and their customers in cities everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with TypeScript (2+ yr)
- Experience with microservice frameworks & best practices
- Experience with React - Functional components & Context API (1+ yr)
- Strong SQL database fundamentals (You’ve designed schemas before)
- Experience architecting business-critical features and managing them in production
- Strong communication skills (You enjoy design reviews, creating timelines, and brainstorming)
- Experience developing locally with docker
Desirable
- Experience with MapboxGL, Websockets
- Experience working across our stack
- Experience working with CI/CD managing k8s/Helm deployments
What the job involves
- Consumer and Merchant Products: We build products to create a frictionless, efficient, and delightful end-to-end delivery experience for our users - merchants and their customers. We design each robot interaction - loading the robot, tracking the delivery, unlocking the robot, etc. around user pain points and moments of delight
- Order Ingestion: We build and manage the software partnerships that allow Coco to receive orders from all major ordering platforms including DoorDash, UberEats, and GrubHub and custom systems. Work on various integrations and enjoy “Test Orders” from some of your favorite restaurants!
- Delivery Management: We build backend services that make automated decisions based on user behaviors, supply/demand, government regulations, sidewalk conditions, and more
- Logistics: Delivery is an expensive problem. We partner with other Coco teams (e.g., Merchant Operations, Consumer Experience, Field Operations, TeleOperations, and Autonomy), acting as a thought partner to tackle some of Coco’s most pressing efficiency and profitability initiatives
- Internal Tools: Our software enables human operators to manage a fleet of delivery robots. We maintain a mobile native app for our Field Operations team and a web app for our remote Pilots to manage assigned deliveries
- Device Infrastructure: To operate as efficiently and reliably as possible, the above systems all need access to low latency, accurate robot telemetry. We architect and build backend services that communicate with devices and track information such as health, battery status and location
Our take
Demand for rapid home delivery continues to grow, but traditional gig-economy drivers are in too short a supply (and are too costly) to meet it. So top tier companies and startups alike have been racing to develop last-mile delivery robots. Coco is one of them, and has been making pretty strong strides.
Following a successful LA pilot, the company has begun launching its fleet of delivery robots to Dallas, Houston, and Miami to help companies deliver food faster and more cheaply to their customers.
This is a good start for the relative newcomer - but the delivery robot market is getting crowded. Major enterprises like Amazon and Fedex, as well as well-resourced startups Starship, Nuro, and Yandex (among others) are all seeing strong uptake. Many of them are also developing fully autonomous vehicles, where Coco’s robots are human-piloted.
This makes Coco’s deliveries competitively fast, and far more reliable - for now at least, whilst autonomous technology is still a work in progress. However, there are some suggestions that relying on remote human pilots has created similar gig-economy employment issues as we’re seen with more traditional courier companies. It may hamper Coco’s progress in future as rival refine their product
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2025
$80m
LATE VC
Aug 2021
$36m
SERIES A
Total funding: $121.5m
Company benefits
- Coco provides a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible spending accounts, unlimited PTO, and catered meals
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Flexible spending accounts
- Unlimited PTO
- Catered meals
Company HQ
Wilshire Montana, Santa Monica, CA
Leadership
Zach Rash
(CEO)A UCLA computer science graduate with experience in deep learning, infrastructure engineering, and autonomous vehicles.
Brad Squicciarini
(CTO)Graduated in computer science from UCLA, with a focus on robotic learning and autonomous vehicle research.
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