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Staff Software Engineer, Backend

AI summary of the role

Coco is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer for the Delivery Platform team to own and drive products from design to production, working closely with product managers and mentoring junior engineers.

What you’ll do

  • Own and drive products from design to development to testing to production
  • Work with product managers to understand user needs and propose technical solutions
  • Structure and manage projects for junior engineers
  • Build backend services for consumer/merchant products, order ingestion, delivery management, logistics, internal tools, and device infrastructure

What you’ll bring

  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience
  • 7+ years of professional software development experience
  • Experience designing and leading implementation of new platform features/services deployed in AWS
  • 3+ years experience supporting business-critical services in production

Technologies

Golang · Typescript · Postgres · RabbitMQ · Kafka · AWS · Kubernetes · Helm · Terraform · Datadog

About Coco Robotics

Builds sidewalk delivery robots and fleet software for restaurants, grocers, and local retailers, combining low-cost urban autonomy with human oversight and marketplace integrations.

Series B · 100–200 people

Source and classification

Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:

structure and manage projects for junior engineers, and report on impact. Note: This is an in-office role. Coco is an office-first, highly collaborative and cross-functional company. We are looking for someone who is excited about the energy, collaboration, and culture-building opportunities of an in-office work environment. About the Team As an engineer on the Delivery Platform team, you’ll build software products that power our delivery operations. This is a diverse team of engineers that owns every part of the stack. Our responsibilities include: Consumer and Merchant Products: We build products to create a frictionless, efficient, and delightful end-to-end delivery experience for our users - merchants and their customers. We design each robot interaction - loading the robot, tracking the delivery, unlocking the robot, etc. around user pain points and moments of delight. Order
More from the job description

At Coco, we’re dedicated to perfecting the last-mile delivery experience through robotics. We believe the delivery service industry in its current state is massively under-serving merchants, and we are committed to creating a sustainable, reliable, and frictionless delivery experience for merchants and their customers. Coco is a venture-backed, Series A stage startup that operates hundreds of sidewalk robots, delivering to thousands of customers every week across Los Angeles. The environment here is high-energy, collaborative, and exciting. Our HQ is located in Venice, CA. About the Role As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for owning and driving products from design to development to testing to production. You will work closely with product managers to understand the needs of users (merchants, consumers, and internal stakeholders), propose technical solutions, structure and manage projects for junior engineers, and report on impact. Note: This is an in-office role. Coco is an office-first, highly collaborative and cross-functional company. We are looking for someone who is excited about the energy, collaboration, and culture-building opportunities of an in-office work environment. About the Team As an engineer on the Delivery Platform team, you’ll build software products that power our delivery operations. This is a diverse team of engineers that owns ev [... source excerpt omitted ...] include: Consumer and Merchant Products: We build products to create a frictionless, efficient, and delightful end-to-end delivery experience for our users - merchants and their customers. We design each robot interaction - loading the robot, tracking the delivery, unlocking the robot, etc. around user pain points and moments of delight. Order Ingestion: We build and manage the software partnerships that allow Coco to receive orders from all major ordering platforms including DoorDash, UberEats, and GrubHub and custom systems. Work on a variety of integrations and enjoy test orders from some of your favorite restaurants! Delivery Management: We build backend services that mak [... source excerpt omitted ...] ices and track information such as health, battery status and location. Our Stack Golang, Typescript, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Datadog Basic Qualifications BS in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience 7+ years of professional software development experience Experience designing and leading the implementation of new platform features and services, including their deployment in AWS Experience supporting business-critical services in production (3+ yr) Experience with Go (3+ yr) Strong SQL database fundamentals (3+ yr) Experience with message queue & pub/sub frameworks such as Kafka or RabbitMQ (2+ yr) Preferred Qualifications E

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