Principal Software Engineer, Metropolis

• The ideal candidate will have a product-oriented mindset exuding extreme curiosity to explore customer experiences, obsessively finding opportunities for our customers to make technology experience frictionless
• If you are energized by the mission to empower our customers to harness time through remarkable mobility products, this role is for you
• 14+ years of experience building customer centric applications and products
• Experience initiating and driving technical strategy
• Proven track record of designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems and software products in high volume consumer facing applications
• Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills and expert level knowledge of Scala or Java or related language
• Strong experience with data-intensive architectures
• Deep understanding of tradeoffs involved in release engineering and other processes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
• Track record of successful cross-functional collaboration while building customer solutions in B2C and B2B settings
• Preferred local to New York City or Los Angeles area. Remote for the right candidate

Desirable

• We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead our Customer Experience application development group through the next step function growth phase
• As an engineering leader, you will be driving the future of Metropolis products forward, shaping vision and technical strategy that enables us to build top notch customer experiences
• This individual will provide immense technical thought leadership and will shape a strong engineering-led culture
• This leader will play a critical role in the company's success by ensuring that advancing the tech is aligned with customer needs and contributes to the company's overall growth and profitability
• This is a unique opportunity to build an end-to-end mobility platform, that supports high throughput locations, aviation, fleet management and other use cases impacting the everyday experience of millions of people
• Provide technical direction that influences the entire company by formulating and implementing technical vision and strategy
• Establish the technologies and best practices needed to achieve operational excellence in system reliability while enabling rapid experimentation and data-informed decisions
• Through technology, enable step function improvements in developer experience and velocity
• Be a great coach to bring the best out of our engineers and a key driver of hiring top talent
• Empower collaborative environment where best product and technical ideas are nurtured and come to life
• Influence the industry by creating competitive advantages for our customers through their use of our global platform