Backend Engineer Spin
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

About Spin

Spin operates electric scooters in cities and campuses nationwide, bringing sustainable last-mile mobility solutions to diverse communities. Recognized for its consistent cooperation and collaboration with cities, Spin partners closely with transportation planners, elected officials, community groups, and university administrators to bring stationless mobility options to streets in a responsible and carefully orchestrated manner.

Based in San Francisco, Spin is a diverse team of engineers, designers, urban planners, policymakers, lawyers and operators with experience from Y Combinator, Lyft, Uber, local and federal government, and the transportation advocacy world. Spin was known for launching the first stationless mobility program in Seattle, and has since expanded to become the exclusive electric scooter partner in mid-sized cities like Coral Gables, Florida and Lexington, Kentucky, and one of a few permitted scooter operators in large cities like Denver, Detroit, and Washington, D.C. The team embeds in cities and neighborhoods to understand their specific transportation needs, and hires locally from the community.

Spin is expanding quickly and looking for top-tier talent to help us bring affordable and accessible transportation options to cities and define what future safe streets will look like.

About the Role

We are looking for backend engineers to deal with the challenge of designing and maintaining a fault tolerant system that handles thousands of connected IoT devices and mobile apps at scale.

Our stack is primarily Ruby (Rails, Grape, RSpec), Go, Javascript, RDS, PostgreSQL and Redis.

We're currently hosted on Heroku and AWS, though we are constantly evaluating as we scale.

The Team

Our engineering team consists engineers that are passionate about creating finely polished and intuitive experiences and, at the same time, obsess over performance and reliability of what we build. We challenge the status quo and strive towards finding the best way to solve problems.

We promote being a more well rounded engineer by working on different parts of the engineering stack. We also work in very small groups to keep processes and overhead low, so we have a lot of trust and accountability to perform the work required to build the best product.

Responsibilities

* Collaborate with other teams to build and support server-side logic and interfaces that power our product and features
* Write backend services and APIs
* Build for scale, availability, performance and security across the stack
* Extend our public API so developers and partners can take advantage of our platform
* Deliver quality software through comprehensive code reviews and automated testing
* Push your team forward onto the latest and greatest, be it engineering practices, libraries, tools or products

Qualifications

* Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in backend development (Ruby on Rails, Go)
* You have worked with a team of people to build an entire product end-to-end
* You understand relational database systems and schema design
* You have created and supported APIs
* You have experience with how systems work at scale

Benefits & Perks

* Opportunity to join a fast-growing startup and help shape and establish the company's industry leadership
* Competitive health benefits
* Daily catered lunch
* Unlimited PTO for salaried roles
* Commuter stipend plus pre-tax benefits
* Monthly cell phone bill stipend