Senior Backend Software Engineer, Turo
CA$120-150k
+ Eligible for equity
Car sharing marketplace
Job no longer available
Car sharing marketplace
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$120-150k
+ Eligible for equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Turo's mission is to put the world's cars to better use.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience shipping high-scale code to production
- Fluent in at least one language - Java and/or Python
- Possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, database concepts, distributed systems, and search
- Strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you
- Enjoy solving problems and helping others meet their goals
- Experience with logging, monitoring and alerting systems and tools
- Passionate about search, streaming, database or other backend technologies
Desirable
- Bachelor's/Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related field
- Curious about container orchestration systems such as kubernetes and infrastructure as code tools such as terraform
- Experience collaborating with marketing teams or working in a growth engineering environment, particularly in areas like mar-tech, experimentation, conversion optimization or SEO
What the job involves
- Collaborate with product engineering, devops and data teams to develop Turo into a scalable service
- Ensure our engineers have an awesome time developing—help them move faster and smoother from onboarding to launching services and products, with built-in observability
- Generate maintainable, high-quality code, conduct thorough testing, engage in collaborative code reviews, and oversee the shipping process
- Identify opportunities for enhancing and scaling our architecture and application design
- Create tools and utilities for diagnosing and resolving issues within the system
- Ensure proper technical design and documentation
- Operate effectively in a dynamic and expanding environment, adapting to constant change, where fluid processes and creative solutions are valued
- Apply your skills to elevate the technical standards and provide guidance on architectural decisions
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 HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
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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