About the position
Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract. As a company, we constantly challenge what's possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations. The Vehicle Sales Team within Commercial Technology at Rivian builds software to support the management of Rivian vehicles including sales, delivery, post delivery feature enablement. Our applications are used by customers and internal sales teams. We are looking for a software engineer who is comfortable working in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment, who is obsessed with providing the best experience for our customers, and holds themselves to high engineering standards.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and test customer-facing and internal applications, including frontend and backend distributed systems and micro-services at scale
- Collaborate with UX designers, product managers, and other engineering teams on business and engineering initiatives
- Willing to support on-call rotation as needed for production systems
Requirements
- 2+ years of relevant industry experience as a backend engineer
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
- Experience with Node/Express, Python, Java microservices, web frameworks
- Familiarity with GraphQL and REST
- Strong understanding of object oriented principles
- Solid understanding of databases (Postgres, RDS, DynamoDB, etc.)
- Familiarity with cloud-native technologies and platforms such as AWS
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes
- Unit testing and test-driven development experience
- Experience developing APIs with the care that they deserve - REST with OpenApi/Swagger and GraphQL APIs
Benefits
- Robust medical/Rx, dental and vision insurance packages for full-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26
- Coverage is effective on the first day of employment
