Senior Software Engineer (Ride-Hailing Product)

• A rider taps “request ride” and within seconds, an autonomous vehicle is matched, dispatched, and on its way. The On-Road Experience team owns the systems that make that moment happen

• The On-road Experience team builds the real-time distributed system behind Nuro’s ride-hailing product. This is foundational infrastructure where correctness and performance have consequences on a real road

• This is the perfect role if you love architecting performant, reliable distributed systems, processing real-time vehicle data, and building the foundational APIs that enable seamless product experiences

• The position demands technical excellence, a deep understanding of system design, and a knack for solving tough problems. Come join us in defining the future!

• Backend services for ride planning, vehicle matching, and real-time trip execution

• Partner API integrations (Uber and others) routing ride requests to Nuro vehicles

• Telemetry pipelines surfacing live vehicle state to riders and operations

Benefits

• Free Caltrain pass and commuter benefits

• Company stock options

• Work from home opportunities

• Health insurance- Solid hands-on experience with GCP (CloudSQL, BigQuery, Redis, or equivalent)

• End-to-end product ownership — from requirements through launch and iteration

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems where reliability isn’t optional

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with strong Go proficiency

• A track record of technical leadership: setting the bar, mentoring others, making hard trade-offs

• Great to have: dispatch, fleet, location, or delivery/ride platform experience. Even better if you’ve built systems where the physical world is the end user

• Domain Expertise: Experience with backend services related to vehicles, location, dispatch, inventory, or order/ride/delivery

• Product and Business Acumen: A keen interest in the “why” in addition to the “how.” You are eager to understand and contribute to product and business requirements, capable of identifying high-impact projects from a list of potential initiatives