Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack Mastermind)

Location: Fully remote anywhere in the US, with occasional travel to the Glendale, Arizona headquarters for team gatherings.

Salary: $200,000–$220,000 per year

Company

RTA provides fleet management software and customer service for fleets operating school buses, emergency vehicles, ambulances, trucks, and public transportation.

What you will do

• Own Fleet360 features end to end, from product ideas through front-end interfaces, APIs, business logic, databases, integrations, infrastructure, and production delivery.
• Design and build scalable Node.js and TypeScript services, APIs, data models, and reliable third-party integrations.
• Build maintainable, responsive user experiences with Vue.js and a strong understanding of the underlying systems and data.
• Use coding agents and AI-assisted development throughout the software lifecycle, and improve AI-enabled engineering workflows.
• Build AI-powered product capabilities using LLMs, retrieval, agents, and intelligent automation where they create customer value.
• Improve performance, security, observability, reliability, testing, and deployment practices while mentoring engineers and collaborating with Product, QA, and Support.

Requirements

• 5–7+ years of professional software engineering experience with ownership of production software.
• Genuine full-stack experience across browser applications, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and third-party integrations.
• Production-scale Node.js and TypeScript experience building well-designed APIs and services.
• Deep relational database experience, including schema design, SQL optimization, performance diagnosis, data integrity, and concurrency.
• Daily AI-assisted development experience with the judgment to constrain, evaluate, test, and improve generated code.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice to have

• Vue.js experience or strong React or Angular experience.
• Browser-side architecture, state management, asynchronous behavior, and front-end performance expertise.
• Systems design, event-driven architecture, distributed systems, messaging, queues, caching, or Redis experience.
• Docker, AWS ECS/EKS, Kubernetes, observability, CI/CD, and automated testing experience.
• Experience with LLM APIs, tool calling, RAG, embeddings, vector search, structured outputs, evaluations, or agents.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, fully remote work within the US with occasional headquarters travel.
• High-ownership environment focused on product outcomes, continuous learning, healthy technical debate, and serving customers.
• 401(k) with a 6% Safe Harbor match, fully vested on day one.
• Flexible PTO, Cigna PPO and HSA medical plans with company contributions, and HRA reimbursement opportunities.
• Dental, vision, EAP, life, short- and long-term disability, legal plan, identity theft protection, wellness rewards, virtual care, and mental health support.

Hiring process

• Conversation with the hiring manager about previous work and AI tooling practices.
• Team conversation covering technical experience, decisions, problem-solving, and mutual fit.