Backend Engineer- Platform
Venice, CA

Job Description

Description

Bird is a last-mile electric vehicle sharing company dedicated to bringing safe, low-cost, environmentally-friendly transportation solutions to communities across the world. We provide a fleet of electric, shared scooters that can be accessed via smartphone. Bird is headquartered in Venice, California and is rapidly expanding across the country and the world.

Responsibilities:

Building backend APIs and documentation

Working closely with various business partners (mobile, firmware team, UI/UX)

Architecture design

Writing functional and integration tests for backend services

Large scale data processing to respond to user behavior and optimize operations

Qualifications:

Experience in Java, Kotlin or other JVM based languages (Scala, Clojure, Groovy, JRuby)SQL experience

Distributed computing experience including multi-region global platform development

Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms

Expertise in object-oriented design methodology and large scale application development

Functional programming experience a plus

IOT experience a plus

Strong dislike of ORMs a plus

Technology we're working with:

Kotlin

Dropwizard

Dagger

RxJava/RxKotlin

AWS

Terraform

Flink

Kafka

Redis

RabbitMQ

Bird Rides Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer, and we welcome everyone regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or genetics. We are dedicated to providing an inclusive, open, and diverse work environment.