Staff Software Engineer, Lime
Internal Tools
$190-261k
Offers equity and bonus
Electric bike and scooter rentals
Be an early applicant
Electric bike and scooter rentals
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$190-261k
Offers equity and bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with a focus on building internal tools or B2B applications
- Technical versatility with the ability to operate across the stack. You can spin up a simple, intuitive frontend and build the backend logic to support it
- Experience querying and integrating with data warehouses, specifically Snowflake, and building APIs to fetch and transform that data
- Strong systems thinking skills with the ability to take a high-level goal, like reducing manual ticket escalation, and breaking it down into technical tasks and sprints
- Experience with ServiceNow, Zendesk, or Jira APIs is highly desirable
- Understanding of role-based access control (RBAC) and design principles that protect sensitive data
- Experience operating in an agile sprint cycle environment
- If you want to make an impact, Lime is the place for you. Not sure if you meet all the qualifications? If this role excites you we encourage you to apply. Explore all opportunities on our career page
What the job involves
- Build Custom Tooling: Design and develop internal web applications that allow internal teams to access specific data sets and perform actions without requiring direct, elevated access to sensitive third party, and internal systems
- System Integration: Partner with the Data & Integrations team to architect and build connections between key business platforms, such as Snowflake, Zendesk, and Slack, to automate workflows and visualize trends for non-technical users
- Enhance Security: Champion a "least privilege" approach by building UIs that transform sensitive data into actionable insights, reducing the need for raw data access
- Drive Operational Efficiency: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as Customer Support, to identify manual pain points in their intake workflows and build custom tooling to close process gaps
- Operational Excellence: Participate in sprint planning and prioritization, ensuring high operational efficiency and team health while managing a backlog of feature requests
- Documentation: Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for architecture, configurations, and runbooks
Our take
In recent years, electric-powered mobility companies have attracted an extraordinary amount of interest and funding, in part due to rising eco-friendly sentiment, and in part because of the race to "find the next Uber". Lime is one such company, that has rapidly scaled across multiple geographies to be a key player in the fight for market leadership.
Lime, along with its competitors, has had to grapple with regulation in many of its target markets, but nonetheless has steadily increased its footprint. Since its launch, the company has facilitated millions of trips, making it one of the biggest companies of its kind. Interestingly, the CEO has stated that "cars are our true business rivals—not other scooter companies", suggesting that its biggest business challenge will be to get families to give up their second cars.
With a presence that spans an impressive number of regions - in 2023, Lime began operating in Qatar - the company has cemented itself in the micromobility market and stands to profit from the increasing popularity of these types of services. A substantial increase in ridership enabled Lime to achieve "free cash flow positivity" two years in a row, with suggestions it will pursue a US IPO in 2027.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
17% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2021
$523m
CONVERTIBLE
May 2020
$170m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company benefits
- Disability insurance
- 401(k)
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Toby
(Co-Founder & Board Advisor)Founder and CEO of ZERO&. Was a Marketing Manager at Pepsi for 6 years before doing an MBA at Berkeley. Moved into consulting and VC for 5 years before starting Lime.
Brad
(Co-Founder & Chairman)VP of Business Development at Tencent for 8 years. Managing Partner of a VC firm for 3 years, where he worked with Toby. Has an MBA from Berkeley.
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