Senior Software Engineer, Metropolis
Product Foundations
$150-200k
4+ days a week in office
Autonomous commerce platform for urban mobility
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Autonomous commerce platform for urban mobility
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-200k
4+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To disrupt traditional city infrastructure to empower the future of urban mobility.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of backend software engineering experience with deep focus on distributed systems and platform infrastructure
- Demonstrate expert-level Java proficiency with deep understanding of JVM performance, concurrency, and ecosystem tooling
- Possess production experience with microservices architecture, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and cloud platforms (AWS)
- Exhibit strong systems thinking with a proven ability to design and implement large-scale, high-availability distributed systems that handle significant load
- Demonstrate observability expertise including hands-on production experience with metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting systems in high-load environments
- Utilize database and data systems knowledge including relational databases, event streaming (Kafka, SQS), caching strategies, and data consistency patterns
- Show experience with AI-powered development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar agentic coding tools for enhanced productivity, specifically context engineering
- Maintain excellent technical communication with the ability to design and document complex systems, lead technical discussions, and collaborate across multiple teams
Desirable
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
- Possess Scala experience and security compliance expertise, particularly in authentication, authorization, secrets management, and regulatory compliance for financial transactions
- Demonstrate experience with high-growth environments where you have scaled systems through rapid expansion and increasing load
- Showcase open source contributions or technical blog writing that demonstrates depth of technical expertise in distributed systems
- Exhibit performance optimization experience with profiling, benchmarking, and system tuning at hyperscale
What the job involves
- Metropolis is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for our Product Foundations team to architect and build Metropolis Web Services (MTWS), the composable, foundational services serving as the substrate for all current and future products across the company
- In this role, you will solve complex distributed systems challenges at scale and build the technical foundation enabling us to expand into new markets and support new verticals from the ground up
- Working alongside highly technical hypernerds who live and breathe distributed systems, performance optimization, developer productivity, and reliability engineering, you will collaborate across multiple technical teams including Application Development, Infrastructure, and our Advanced Technologies group to deliver remarkable, checkout-free real-world experiences
- Design and build the core services of Metropolis Web Services, the composable platform that will power multiple mobility businesses including IAM, notifications, message processing, and other critical infrastructure components
- Build and maintain our service mesh infrastructure, enabling secure, reliable, and observable communication between hundreds of microservices at scale
- Create sophisticated developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and platform automation that enables product teams to ship code safely and efficiently while maintaining high operational standards
- Make critical technical decisions about service boundaries, API design, data consistency patterns, and system reliability that affect the entire platform and multiple business lines
- Architect and optimize systems for high throughput and low latency to support millions of transactions across our global platform as we scale to new markets
- Establish monitoring, alerting, and reliability practices that ensure 99.99% uptime for mission-critical mobility infrastructure
- Drive architectural discussions, establish engineering best practices, and mentor other engineers while contributing directly to complex technical implementations
- Our Stack
- Languages + Frameworks: TypeScript, React, Scala (principally), Java (limited)
- Datastores: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake
- Cloud: AWS
- Version control: Git & GitHub
- AI Tooling: Copilot on GitHub and Claude Code
- Observability: Datadog
Our take
Driven by computer vision and AI technology, Metropolis offers a seamless parking and checkout experience by turning cars into wallets. This eliminates the need for physical tickets and pay machines, allowing property owners to maximise the financial performance of their parking assets and offer a modern service to customers.
Metropolis aims to revolutionise parking by integrating future mobility solutions, such as autonomous vehicle deployment, charging stations, and eVTOL infrastructure. Its approach includes dynamic pricing to optimise revenue during demand surges.
Co-founded by Alex Israel, a former ParkMe founder, the company has expanded rapidly following several staggering fundraising rounds and partnerships with Premier Parking and Uber. The company's acquisition of SP Plus Corporation, funded by a $1.8 billion investment, positions it as a leader in AI-driven mobility solutions. As a pioneer in its category, Metropolis continues to push the boundaries of parking and mobility technology.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2025
$500m
SERIES D
Oct 2023
$1.1bn
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.8bn
Company benefits
- Equity options - We offer ownership opportunities through stock options
- Wellness benefits - A wellness program designed to support a variety of needs
- Health insurance - We subsidise high-quality health insurance coverage for full-time and hourly employees
- We subsidize high-quality health insurance coverage for full-time and hourly employees
- 401(k) match - Plan for your future with a 4% company match
- Parental leave - Receive support prior to, during leave, and as you transition back to work
- Time off - Unlimited PTO for salaried employees, and a generous PTO package for our hourly employees
- Paid holidays - We observe major holidays with company-wide closures, and double hourly rates for those who work
- Hybrid environment - Magic happens face to face, but we support a flexible working model
Company HQ
Downtown, Santa Monica, CA
Leadership
Alexander Israel
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Vice President & General Manager at INRIX. Co-founder and former COO at ParkMe. BA in Business & Economics at University of Puget Sound.
Travis Kell
(Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer)Former Senior Vice President at Winton Group. Previously Director of Hedge Fund Solutions at BlackRock. BA in Business at University of Puget Sound.
Courtney Fukuda
(Co-Founder & Chief Integration Officer)Formerly hedge fund solutions group at BlackRock. Managed senior relationships with sovereign wealth fund, central banks and other major institutional investors. BA in Economics at Yale University.
Peter Fisher
(Co-Founder & CCO)Formerly growth equity Investor at Transamerica Investment Management, BA in Political Science at Boston College.
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