Senior Backend Engineer, Bird

• Bachelor’s in STEM (or equivalent) with 5+ years of professional backend experience
• Professional proficiency in Golang and JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, or Scala)
• Proven track record building distributed systems and real-time data pipelines (Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS) for IoT or high-volume telemetry
• Hands-on experience with communication protocols and interfacing with IoT devices
• Expertise in CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions) and Observability (Datadog/Grafana) to proactively monitor, debug, and optimize large-scale systems
• Experience conducting post-mortems and a willingness to participate in on-call rotations for critical incidents
• Ability to document technical designs, contribute to technical roadmaps, and advocate for solutions to stakeholders
• Ability to travel approximately twice a year

Desirable

• The Senior Software Engineer plays a pivotal role in designing, building, and optimizing high-quality software solutions. This position exists to provide technical expertise and ownership of complex features, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability
• The engineer is expected to tackle challenging technical problems, write clean and efficient code, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. By mentoring junior engineers and adhering to best practices, this role contributes to the team's success and the overall delivery of Bird's product roadmap
• Design, implement, and optimize backend and infrastructure solutions to support business growth. Deliver at least one major feature or system enhancement per quarter that improves performance, scalability, or maintainability
• Work with product, data, vehicle and infrastructure teams to design and implement solutions that align with business needs. Provide actionable recommendations and technical feasibility assessments within agreed timelines
• Monitor and improve system health, proactively addressing performance bottlenecks and outages. Reduce system downtime by at least 5% annually through incident resolution and preventative measures
• Provide code reviews, technical guidance, and mentorship to junior engineers. Conduct at least one structured knowledge-sharing session per quarter and set individual development goals for mentees
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, and implement best practices to increase engineering efficiency. Reduce manual operational workload by at least 10% per year through automation
• Collaborate with the team to propose at least two technical initiatives per year that align with the team's roadmap
• Tackle high-impact engineering challenges, conduct post-mortems, and implement long-term fixes. Reduce repeat incidents by 10% annually through improved monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis
• Champion engineering culture: Act as a role model for technical excellence, collaboration, and innovation. Lead at least one technical discussion, hackathon, or knowledge-sharing event per quarter to strengthen team engagement