Backend Engineer, SpotHero
Integrations Squad
$116.8-145k
+ Discretionary bonus & stock options. Salary reflective of candidates in Illinois.
More information about location
1 day a week in office
Off-street parking marketplace
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Off-street parking marketplace
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$116.8-145k
+ Discretionary bonus & stock options. Salary reflective of candidates in Illinois.
More information about location
1 day a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify finding and booking off-street parking for stress-free travel experiences.
Role
Who you are
- You have strong coding skills, with multiple examples of successful projects you have worked on and a few failed projects that taught you not to build a “perfect” ivory tower that no one wants to use
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 4+ years of professional experience in software engineering
- Proficiency in Kotlin or Java would be a distinct advantage
- Experience in building and maintaining scalable backend services
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and tools like Docker and Kubernetes
- Knowledge of microservices architecture and asynchronous communication using Kafka
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and experience with related tools (e.g., Bitrise, ConcourseCI)
- Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and caching solutions (e.g., Redis)
- Experience with unit and integration testing and understanding TDD/BDD practices
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
- Problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment
- Strong communication skills to effectively convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Passion for continuous learning and staying updated with industry trends and advancements
- Experience with Agile development methodologies
What the job involves
- SpotHero is seeking a Backend Engineer to join the Operator League for the Integrations Squad. We build services that make Drivers’ experiences seamless as they enter each Facility!
- The backend engineer will contribute to the codebase by following set standards and successfully completing stories, having the ability to provide support for any part of the codebase, and also being able to understand the codebase with minimal direction from others
- You will own code standards, unit and integration testing practices, and a technical roadmap
- You will work with the Product Management team to correctly define requirements
- You must also be able to successfully design sophisticated systems and collaborate with other engineers to ensure proper design implementation
- Identify, design, develop, test, and release high-quality functionality as efficiently as possible
- Build and maintain tools and services related to the product/engineering squad’s goals
- Ownership of a codebase, maintaining it and ensuring it runs consistently
- Collaborate with teammates on setting technical guidelines, system design, and best practices
- Contribute to the codebase by adhering to set standards and completing tasks efficiently
- Assist in understanding various parts of the codebase and provide support when needed
- Partner with the Product Management team to accurately capture requirements
- Engage actively in the engineering ecosystem, collaborating with senior and staff-level engineers
- Help innovate and optimize within the squad environment
- Play an active role in product and feature design across the tech stack
- Maintain and nurture a specific codebase, ensuring its consistent operation
- Stay updated with new and evolving technologies and apply them when beneficial
- Our Backend stack is a monolith using Django/Python/PostgreSQL. When relevant, we extract specific domains to Services currently using Java, Kotlin and GoLang. We also use Docker to deploy our apps via Kubernetes. We use Kafka for asynchronous service-to-service communication
Application process
- Please include any GitHub account, LinkedIn profile, and any project that you’re particularly proud of. We love seeing work that others loved working on
Our take
Finding a parking spot is an ever-increasing challenge, that is being solved by SpotHero, a platform which helps people find and book off-road parking across Canada and the US.
SpotHero is evolving with current trends by offering car-sharing and commercial fleet options, alongside partnering with Android Auto to increase its reservations and joining up with the navigation app Waze. It offers services to corporations too, and brings standardization to the otherwise fragmented and often confusing parking industry.
As the only independent off-street parking marketplace in North America, SpotHero has established a robust infrastructure and is expanding its services and coverage. Part of this is in its recent partnership with Google, to integrate marketing reservations into Google Maps. This, along with its existing partnerships with platforms like Apple Maps, puts SpotHero in an exciting spot going forward.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2019
$50m
SERIES D
Sep 2018
$10.1m
SERIES C
Total funding: $117.6m
Company benefits
- Career game changer – A truly unique experience to work for a fast-growing startup in a role with unlimited potential for growth
- Flexible PTO policy and great work/life balance – We value and support each individual team member
- Annual parking stipend – we help people park!
- The opportunity to collaborate with fun, innovative, and passionate people in a casual, yet highly productive atmosphere
- Up to 95% of Medical Premiums, 50% of Dental & Vision Premiums, company-sponsored Life Insurance, 401K, and generous parental leave 🇺🇸
- Medical (prescription drug and paramedical coverage), Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, STD, and LTD 🇨🇦
Company HQ
Chicago Loop, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Mark Lawrence
(Co-Founder & CEO)Having studied Finance and Spanish at Bradley University, they spent 2 years as a Financial Analyst at Bank of America, before leaving in July 2010. That October, they founded SpotHero as CEO.
Larry Kiss
(Co-Founder & Chief Architect Officer)Having started their career at Advanced Micro Devices, they then worked at Motorola for 3 years and also as a Freelance Developer. They co-founded SpotHero with Mark, before co-founding iNotary in March 2011, where they worked as CTO for a year.
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