Job description
About Alto
Alto is on a mission to redefine the rideshare experience for passengers, drivers, and employees alike. Through our business model of professional employee drivers and a dedicated fleet of luxury vehicles, we are turning rides into exceptional experiences by delivering industry-leading safety, consistency, and personalization. As the first vertically-integrated fleet manager and ridesharing service, we are also committed to leading the industry by transitioning our entire fleet to electric vehicles. We are rapidly growing and accelerating towards a nationwide expansion. Today, we operate in Los Angeles, Dallas, Washington D.C., Miami, San Francisco, and Houston.
Alto is a destination for innovative, intellectually curious, and forward thinking people. Learn more about us here.
As a Backend Engineer, you will contribute to and own the design and development of the best-in-class Cloud Native applications that are the backbone of our Driver Experience.
What you’ll do:
- Participate in the design, development, deployment, and operation of our microservices, APIs, and other applications used by various new and existing mobile and web applications
- Build web portals and integration services using modern technology platforms and frameworks such as Node, Kubernetes, Serverless Functions, and Typescript
- Play an active role in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of architecture, design patterns, platforms, and tools
- Collaborate with other team members across engineering, product, customer support, operations, and others
- Become part of a team that values culture, camaraderie and inclusion at all levels
What you bring to the table:
- 3-4 years of software development experience or relevant transferable skills
- Experience in modern development technologies used to design, deliver, debug, and maintain back-end software systems
- 1-2 years of experience writing backend JavaScript applications using Node and Express (or similar technologies)
- Experience with APIs and microservice patterns using Kubernetes a plus
- Experience with modern relational and non-relational database platforms
- Experience with Git
- Excellent communication skills, a positive attitude, and self-motivation
- Ability to operate in an agile, entrepreneurial start-up environment
- Experience with Firestore and Istio a plus, as well as operations research and optimization
What's In It For You
- Salary, bonus and equity in an innovative startup
- Monthly credit to ride Alto, plus membership!
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- 401k with 100% company match up to 4%
- Professional development reimbursement up to $1,000
- Unlimited PTO
** Alto does not partner with external recruitment vendors, agencies or firms on any searches. **
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