Technical Lead Software Engineer (Routing)

Location: Mountain View, California (HQ)

Base pay: $213,480–$319,720 annually; the range may vary for a different level. Annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits are also available.

Company

hirify.global develops Level 4 autonomous driving technology and a universal autonomy platform for robotaxis, logistics fleets, personal vehicles, and other mobility applications.

What you will do

• Build and scale backend systems and onboard modules for the Routing team.
• Design microservices and optimize routing algorithms for efficient routes and accurate ETAs.
• Work with road-network graphs, mapping infrastructure, and scalable traffic systems.
• Build monitoring, analytics, troubleshooting, debugging, and profiling tooling.
• Optimize deployment pipelines and collaborate with product, strategy, operations, design, PM, UX research, and engineering stakeholders on product strategy and roadmap.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building and scaling realtime server-side applications.
• Experience solving large-scale complex algorithm problems while balancing correctness and performance.
• Experience selecting and using relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL, non-relational databases such as BigTable, Cassandra, and Redis, and data warehouses such as BigQuery and Snowflake.
• Experience with RPC frameworks including gRPC and Thrift, and pubsub systems including Kafka, Cloud PubSub, and Celery.
• Extensive experience with cloud providers such as GCP and AWS.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, or willingness to learn.
• Broad technical skills, fast learning ability, sound tradeoff judgment, strong communication, and collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Commitment to developer tooling, user-focused product development, and delivering significant impact.

Nice to have

• Routing algorithm experience.
• Proficiency in C++.
• Experience training and inferencing ML models.
• Experience with map data and graph data structures.
• Experience with robotics.
• Experience with ETA modeling.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employee position with base pay, annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, psychological safety, and an equal-opportunity workplace.
• Work focuses on autonomous driving systems intended to improve safety, accessibility, and everyday mobility.