Joby Overview: Located in Northern California, the team at Joby Aviation is driven by our goal of creating an affordable, all-electric air transportation system.
Imagine a piloted air taxi that takes off vertically, then quietly carries you and your fellow passengers over the congested city streets below, enabling you to spend more time with the people and places that matter most.
Since 2009, our team has worked steadily to make this dream a reality.
We’ve designed and tested many generations of prototype aircraft capable of serving in a network of electric air taxis.
We’re looking for talented, committed individuals to join our team as we push onwards toward certifying the Joby aircraft with the Federal Aviation Administration, scaling our manufacturing, and preparing to launch commercial service in 2025.
Overview:
We're looking for a highly motivated Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our Air Taxi Product team.
We are seeking an experienced engineer who is passionate about building something exciting and new and wants to help make quiet, emissions-free flight an everyday reality.
As a backend developer you will work closely with product management, design, frontend/mobile, and other backend team members to realize a brand new suite of applications required to power this new era of aviation.
The backend services you will be building power applications for all parts of the customer and operational experience from a customer booking a flight to the behind the scenes operations to serve that flight safely and efficiently.
You will be working on a variety of domains including flight logistics, on demand marketplace dynamics, and physical resource management.
Responsibilities:
Solve complex problems in the real world with scalable technical solutions
Participate in team software processes such as requirement and test plan generation, design doc creation, code reviews and deployments.
Utilize simulation and validation techniques to verify your solutions meet the requirements
Work collaboratively with PM and other teams to define specifications and build the next generation of products
Build a real time system to service every day electric air taxi operations
Understand how to design and implement highly horizontally-scalable architectures
Dive deep into multiple tech stacks across the company to build integrated solutions
Mentor junior engineers
Manage project timelines, implementation design specifications, system flow diagrams, documentation, testing and ongoing support of systems.
Maintain and improve existing code with a pride of ownership.
Write reusable code for components and styles.
Required:
B.
S.
or M.
S.
Computer Science or related field
5+ years of programming experience
3+ years of experience with relational databases and SQL/NoSQL
3+ years of experience with Java, Golang or a similar programming language
Experience with web technologies and frameworks such as Spring and gRPC
At ease with technology, able to quickly pick up new tech stacks and troubleshoot.
Familiar with git and github workflows
Proactive, able to take initiative and work independently.
Desired:
Experience handling sensitive customer data and logs
Experience with real time data processing and streaming
Experience in developing high traffic distributed web applications
Experience with simulation technologies
Familiar with GraphQL and excited about API design.
Experience with cloud environments as well as application deployment and scaling technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, docker, Firebase
Are a pilot or have an interest in aviation and/or new transportation technology
Compensation at Joby is a combination of base pay and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
The target base pay for this position is $106,600 - $171,500/year.
The compensation package will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Joby also offers a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan with a company match, an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, and more.
EEO:
Joby is an Equal Opportunity Employer.