About the position
Wing is looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our Commerce Engineering team. This is a hybrid role based in Palo Alto, CA. In Commerce, our mission is to get Wing's drone delivery into the hands of partners and customers. Our team builds APIs and tools, enabling Wing drone delivery for businesses. We build safe, reliable, and scalable systems, with a detail-oriented mindset, delivering a customer-first experience. This position seeks highly-motivated individuals who enjoy working in a highly dynamic and collaborative team environment. The successful candidate is able to identify areas in need of investment, set solution strategy, influence team direction, and have direct impact through their technical contributions, cutting through ambiguity, and designing and building complex systems. We're looking for people who are intrinsically driven to collaborate on hard problems, drive simple solutions, and take pride in their team's work.
Responsibilities
- Set solution and/or architectural strategy for yourself or a limited number of peers, cutting through ambiguity, and pre-empt complicating factors ahead of time
- Design and build solutions that utilize asynchronous pipelines, database systems, RPC handlers in collaboration with frontend engineers and other backend engineers, in a privacy and security-conscious ecosystem
- Investigate and build software in areas with limited expertise and make an immediate impact
- Collaborate cross-functionally with business partners, product managers, and program managers to design, implement, and quickly launch new features for partners and end consumers, on time
- Mitigate, root cause, and resolve urgent, time-sensitive issues, in both familiar and unfamiliar software, as part of an on-call rotation, or other escalations
- Contribute to a team culture of support, engagement, and quality, ensuring Wing can scale as a business
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing and developing backend software
- A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Excellent written and verbal skills and experience working in a collaborative team
- Ability to identify challenging problems and potential solutions with limited guidance, launch, and successfully land the solution without any complications
- Experience developing backend systems involving database schema design, and synchronous/asynchronous systems
- Experience developing in C++, or ability to quickly pick up C++ with experience in languages such as Java, Python, or Go
