Senior Software Engineer - Sustainability

Samsara; London; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in London is seeking a skilled software engineer to join its Sustainability team. In this role, you will develop innovative solutions to optimize fleet operations and enhance customer experiences. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of industry experience and strong programming skills. This position is remote, open to candidates residing in the UK, and offers opportunities for personal growth within an engineering-first organization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Professional experience working with a team to develop customer-focused products.
• Experience operating, maintaining, and enhancing large-scale application services.

Responsibilities

• Work with product managers, designers, firmware, and infrastructure engineers to design, build, test, and deliver products.
• Coach, mentor and guide engineers in the team.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and outage investigations.

Skills

Strong programming/coding fundamentals

Experience with Java, Python, Golang, or Javascript

Experience designing, building and maintaining large-scale systems

Ability to estimate, communicate, and deliver upon project milestones

Experience with Go, JavaScript, TypeScript

Job description

About the role:

The Sustainability team is dedicated to helping customers reduce fuel consumption and emissions, while also supporting their transition to electric vehicles (EVs) and ensuring efficient EV fleet operations. This is achieved through a comprehensive portfolio of features that includes fuel management tools, electrification planning capabilities, operational support for Electrical Vehicles, and driver efficiency metrics. As a product team, we work across the backend, web, and mobile platforms—owning the entire technology stack to deliver a seamless, end-to-end experience for our customers.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the United Kingdom. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software, firmware, and hardware you build will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You want to build for scale: With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers, you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the world's physical operations.
• You are a life-long learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies, challenges, and customers that push us to learn on the go.
• You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews, collaborate with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
• You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win—together.

In this role, you will:

• Work with product managers, designers, firmware, and infrastructure engineers to design, build, test, and deliver end-to-end products
• Develop skills and knowledge across multiple technologies - Go, GraphQL, Typescript, JavaScript, React, and React Native are some of the components of our technology stack. Direct experience with these technologies is not required
• Solve real life problems and optimize fleets globally
• Coach, mentor and guide engineers in the team, playing a part in their growth and development. Also, receive support on your own personal development
• Maintaining the production systems that your team owns and provide operational support
• Grow as an engineer - Samsara engineers are constantly learning. We’re an engineering-first organisation with ample room for progression
• Participate in the on-call rotation and outage investigations in the team’s domain
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on customer success, build for the long term, adopt a growth mindset, be inclusive, and win as a team) as we scale globally and across new offices

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience
• Professional experience working with a team to develop customer-focused products
• Strong programming/coding fundamentals in a language such as Java, Python, Golang, or Javascript
• Experience designing, building and maintaining large-scale systems
• Experience operating, maintaining, and enhancing upon large-scale application services
• An ability to estimate, communicate, and deliver upon project milestones with your team

An ideal candidate also has:

• Experience with Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar programming languages.
• Familiarity with multiple tiers, like React Frontends and Microservices
• Contributed heavily to driving significant value to their customers
• Curiosity about our customers, and is eager to improve their day-to-day experience
• Seeks to iterate on new products based on customer feedback