Staff Software Engineer, Turo
$218-274k
+ Eligible for equity
Car sharing marketplace
Be an early applicant
Car sharing marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$218-274k
+ Eligible for equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Turo's mission is to put the world's cars to better use.
Role
Who you are
- Master’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field)
- Or a related quantitative discipline, and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or in any occupation in related field,
- OR Bachelor’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field)
- Or a related quantitative discipline, and seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in the job offered or in any occupation in related field
- (1) Golang
- (2) Postgres
- (3) MySQL
- (4) Kafka
- (5) Redis
- (6) Ruby on Rails
- (7) Jenkins
- (8) Git
- (9) Java and
- (10) Oracle
What the job involves
- We are looking for brilliant software engineers for our team
- You should have a passion for consumer products and want to help us achieve our goal of bringing Turo to everyone
- We push code daily, A/B test extensively, and have a primary role in experimenting with new ideas from inception to implementation
- Here’s much to do, and you’ll be responsible for making some really cool stuff happen
- Participates in team, guild, and cross functional review processes relevant to their team
- Accountable for feature metrics and understands how the proposed solution addresses business needs
- Recommends solutions by articulating opportunities and tradeoffs concerning both technical and business value
- Estimates and manages project deadlines and mentors the team on priorities
- A acts as the technical lead for complex features in cross-functional teams
- Contributes to defining strategic direction, planning the roadmap, escalating issues, and synthesizing feedback to ensure team success
- Ensures that knowledge is shared amongst the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure
- Advises manager, product, and design with insights and recommendations to improve the team’s productivity
- Participates in the hiring and onboarding process beyond their immediate team (conducting technical interviews, identifying opportunities, and evangelizing Turo)
- Leads and contributes to more significant initiatives on their platform that may require collaboration across engineering, including other platforms and domains
- Proactively identifies opportunities to improve systems’ maintainability, scalability, and reliability
- Telecommuting is an option. Some travel to Turo offices may be required
Application process
- Submit a resume with references using the apply button on this posting (Req.# 24-145714)
Our take
Turo is the world’s largest car rental marketplace. The comparisons with AirBnb are obvious but not unfounded - ‘hosts’ make their cars available to ‘guests’ who benefit from short-term rentals without the cost of purchasing their own automobile.
The startup has reinvented the car-rental marketplace, previously dominated by incumbents like Avis. By allowing users to rent directly from the car owner themselves, Turo is bringing transparency, efficiency, and liquidity to the industry while hosts earn additional income.
Perhaps one of the biggest challenges the company needs to overcome is similar to those that plagued other major sharing-economy companies like Uber - regulation. Specifically Turo faces disputes over bad-faith hosts and from incumbent players, especially regarding airport use. Since its 2022 IPO, Turo has been eyeing further global expansion and targeting a series of strategic acquisitions and partnerships which will expand its product suite for hosts and guests alike.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Feb 2020
$30m
SERIES E
Jul 2019
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $464m
Company benefits
- Dental, and vision coverage
- Time off to volunteer
- Travel credit each month to grab a car and go explore
- 28 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- We’re a great bunch - Our people are our #1 asset, and each team member uniquely invigorates our diverse, international, travel- and car-loving cast of characters
- We’re in it to win it - We tackle thorny problems every day. We tinker, we experiment, we measure, analyze, and optimize, and we work tirelessly to realize our mission and vision
- We’re doing cool stuff - From dynamic web and mobile apps to customer experiences that refresh confidence in humankind, we’re crafting a brand that brings adventure to the logistics of travel
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Andre Haddad
(CEO, not founder)Previously worked for 10 years at eBay, holding various positions such as CEO - Shopping.com & Vice President - User Experience & Design.
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