Software Engineer - Backend at Mothership (Culver City, CA)

We are building the future of freight

At Mothership, we believe in unlocking the world's potential through speeding up the delivery of everything people need. Started in 2017, we’re backed by some of venture capital’s best investors and have already become the logistics backbone for many of today’s most innovative companies.

To accelerate our mission and success, we’re looking for a Software Engineer with a proven track record to build and expand our world class team. If that's you, come help us reshape logistics. Together we'll replace tired and comfortable incumbents with a modern marketplace built around speed, ease of use and fairness.

The ideal candidate for this position should have an established background in building highly scalable systems and system design, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. Enjoyment in working on complex systems and a drive to build quality software is a must. Lastly, this individual should have a client-centered outlook and passion for achieving operational goals via quality software to succeed.

What you'll get to do

• Join a fast-growing engineering team and build backend services to deliver the best freight shipping experience in the universe.


• Build features to enhance our driver mobile app experience and build tools to enhance our sophisticated internal management system to help our operations team succeed.


• Support mobile and web clients through REST APIs, microservices and a realtime database.


• Design, develop and implement optimization algorithms and leverage machine learning and analytics tools to improve our routing and predictions platforms.


• Build for scalability as we quickly grow and expand our network from a few to many cities.

What success looks like in this role

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or equivalent.


• 2+ years in a software engineer role.


• Strong experience with modern programming language, especially Typescript and Node.js.


• Strong experience building scalable REST APIs and microservices to support mobile and web clients.


• Experience writing comprehensive unit and integration tests.


• Experience with databases, especially non-relational, document-oriented DBs (MongoDB).


• Experience with dev-ops tools and SaaS services (Heroku, AWS, Firebase).


• Comfortable with fast-paced, collaborative, iterative environment.

Bonuses

• Experience working at a tech startup.


• Familiarity with machine learning, AI platforms.


• Familiarity with route optimization.


• Familiarity with React, React Native and/or native mobile development.


• Familiarity with dev-ops tools and SaaS services (Heroku, AWS, Firebase).

Technologies we're working with

• NodeJS + Express


• Mongo


• Redis


• Snowflake


• Python


• Pandas


• Flask


• React & React Native


• Redux


• SQS

What you'll get from Mothership

• Highly competitive salary and employee stock options.


• Full health, dental and vision (PPO).


• Unlimited paid time off.


• Work at our bright, window filled, open floor plan office in West Los Angeles.


• Equipped with the latest MacBook and sit / stand desk.

Culture at Mothership

We’re an ambitious, endlessly curious, and open-minded group. Our team is passionate about our mission and eager to produce work at the highest level. The office is upbeat and supportive, because we care about each other and believe positive momentum equals better outcomes.

Sound like a place you’d be a great addition to? Let’s chat.

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