Lead Full Stack Engineer, Viam
Fleet Management
$205-235k
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office (Broadway, NY)
AI for the physical world
Be an early applicant
AI for the physical world
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$205-235k
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office (Broadway, NY)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make building, deploying and managing robots more flexible, affordable and easy to use so that builders can do more with robots while getting them to market faster.
Role
Who you are
- Has experience leading a team of engineers
- Is comfortable working in backend and frontend programming
- Worked in strongly typed languages and with modern frontend frameworks
- Has an affinity for complex, sophisticated problems and loves solving them with practical solutions
- Has deep experience in the design and implementation of developer interfaces
- Wants to make our users' lives easier by making their work more efficient
- Is excited to approach new technologies and open-ended problems
- Believes in high-quality, tested, and well-documented code
- Has a degree in software engineering or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- The Fleet Management team is responsible for building our web application that enables remote configuration, management, and operation of a fleet of physical devices.
- Configuring one device manually in a lab is one thing, but the Fleet Management team empowers users to manage a fleet of 1000s+ of machines in the wild.
- As a Lead Engineer, you will be integral to building high-quality, robust software and creating the future of smart machines/robotics and people management.
- Tech stack includes Svelte/Typescript, Golang, Linux, and MongoDB
- Creating a fleet of organizations, locations, and machines
- Providing tools to setup, configure, and connect to an individual machine
- Managing reusable configurations called “fragments” to enable managing device configurations at scale
- Maintaining the registry to create and deploy code to devices, and share it across organizations
- Leading a team of engineers with expertise in web front-end and back-end technologies
- Focused on people management - providing actionable feedback, coaching, and mentorship to their team members and delegating project work to keep engineers engaged
- Contributing at a Senior Engineer level for an application for users to manage their devices with a desire to achieve exceptional usability, accessibility, and performance
- Coordinating with product and technical product managers to achieve team goals
- Collaborating with other team leads on new and unique problems in data, AI, and robotics
- Building and testing on physical devices
Our take
Viam offers an open-source software platform designed for scalable development in industries like IoT, robotics, industrial automation, and smart homes. Its modular, interoperable platform enables developers to manage hardware solutions across various devices and fleets, streamlining workflows and supporting AI-driven innovation.
Initially focused on robotics, Viam recently rebranded to appeal to a wider range of industries, including food processing and marine automation. By broadening its message, Viam has successfully expanded its market appeal and aligned its platform with the needs of diverse industries.
Alongside this success is substantial funding, which will fuel expansion into enterprise partnerships and product development. With growing interest from industries like industrial automation and conservation, the company is well-positioned for future growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
42% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2025
$30m
SERIES C
Mar 2024
$45m
SERIES B
Total funding: $117m
Company benefits
- Learning & development education reimbursements
- Training & mentorship opportunities
- 100% of medical, dental, and vision benefits covered
- Flexible work from home and office balance
- 20 weeks gender neutral parental leave
- Personal prosperity and family planning benefits
- Employee resource groups
- Catered lunch in the office
- Commuting benefits
Company HQ
Upper West Side, New York, NY
Leadership
Eliot Horowitz
(Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded ShopWiki and MongoDB where they served as CTO. They also have experience as a Software Engineer at DoubleClick.
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