Who We Are: 

KeepTruckin is on a mission to modernize the trucking industry. With the leading fleet management platform, we are bringing trucks online and fundamentally changing the way freight is moved on our roads. 

We see our hard work rewarded in tangible ways every day and we believe that intelligence is most powerful when paired with humility. We’re motivated by the opportunity to impact and improve every facet of a trillion-dollar industry that touches everyone’s lives. KeepTruckin is proud to be a Forbes Cloud 100 company and a 2020 Career-Launching Company by Wealthfront and named a Forbes Best Startup Employer 2020. 

About the Role: 

As a Platform Software Engineer, you have the opportunity to work on core engineering problems around scale, resiliency & reliability and help multiple product teams design scalable distributed systems across varied application needs. We are looking for a strong engineer who has experience working with distributed systems at scale. 

Learn more about our work culture and team members on this profile of our team here.

What You’ll Do: 

Identify and work on the highest impact problems within engineering, lead technical discussions and decisions across multiple backend teams and deliver scalable solutions that can be adopted by those teams.  Design and implement high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient core services that can be leveraged by other product teams to build scalable & fault tolerant products  Develop tooling and automate processes to ensure KeepTruckin’s backend works well as a distributed system. Help in debugging & solving critical infrastructure issues across multiple backend services Provide mentorship, both formally and informally to engineers at KeepTruckin across multiple teams. Articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling the backend KeepTruckin systems and the teams running them.

What We’re Looking For: 

5+ years of software engineering experience  Experience in building highly scalable services keeping in mind reliability, resiliency, testability and observability Strong coding skills in one or more languages (like Ruby, Go, Java, Python etc) An eye for solving large cross cutting problems with tooling and abstractions Ability to debug complex systems Mature understanding of making the right trade-offs between ideal and pragmatic solutions 

Core Tech Stack

Ruby on Rails Go Monorepo, Bazel, CI/CD and test automation frameworks Container and container orchestration technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) Service-oriented architectures and related OSS technologies (e.g. Kafka, Nginx, Redis, Postgres, DynamoDB) Cloud-native infrastructure (AWS)

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of KeepTruckin's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.