Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Ride-Hailing Product

Nuro; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 315,000; Full time

Job summary

Nuro is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale cloud services powering our on‑road autonomy platform. You will own backend services, APIs, and integrations with partners, shaping reliable, high‑performing systems for riders and operators.

You’ll lead design discussions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, vehicle engineering, and operations teams to deliver robust, scalable solutions in Go on GCP.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production backend experience
• Strong proficiency in Go and API design
• Experience with distributed systems and scalable services
• Cloud experience on GCP or similar
• Proven product ownership and technical leadership

Responsibilities

• Develop APIs and integrations with partners to connect ride requests and vehicle workflows
• Build services for real-time vehicle telemetry and status updates
• Improve reliability, latency, and resilience with monitoring and diagnostics
• Own implementation, rollout, and iteration based on production behavior
• Lead design discussions and mentor engineers across teams

Skills

Go

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

API design

Cloud platforms

Product ownership

Leadership

Tools

Cloud SQL

Redis

BigQuery

Job description

Who We Are

Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world. Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that’s why we’re building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides.

Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets. Powered by the Nuro Driver™, our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles.

With years of real-world deployment experience and a flexible, partner-led business model, Nuro is working toward a future where millions of autonomous vehicles powered by our technology help make everyday life safer, easier, and more connected. Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and other leading investors.

About The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us build and scale the cloud services that power Nuro’s fleet of autonomous vehicles. The On‑Road Experience team builds the integrations that enable our partners to use Nuro Driver for their use case.

This role combines hands‑on backend engineering with product ownership. You’ll help decide what to build, make the technical trade‑offs, and see the results in how riders and operators experience our vehicles.

What You’ll Own

• Partner and vehicle integrations: Develop APIs and integrations with partners such as Uber, connecting ride requests and rider actions to vehicle workflows.
• Real-time vehicle and trip state: Build services that process vehicle telemetry and provide timely, accurate status to partner platforms and rider and operations applications.
• Production reliability: Improve availability, latency, and resilience. Design for delayed updates, retries, and partial failures, and build the monitoring and diagnostics needed to understand and resolve production issues.
• Product delivery: Work with product, vehicle engineering, and operations teams to turn requirements into working services. Own implementation, rollout, and iteration based on production behavior and user feedback.
• Technical leadership: Lead design discussions, make clear trade-offs, and improve engineering practices through code reviews, knowledge‑sharing, and mentorship.

About You

• Backend engineering experience: 5+ years building production backend services, with strong proficiency in Go.
• Distributed systems fundamentals: Experience designing and operating scalable, highly available services, with a strong understanding of API design, data modeling, asynchronous workflows, and failure handling.
• Cloud experience: Hands‑on experience operating services and data stores on GCP or a comparable cloud platform, using technologies such as Cloud SQL, Redis, or BigQuery.
• Product judgment and ownership: A track record of taking projects from problem definition through launch and iteration. You ask why a feature matters, clarify ambiguous requirements, and focus on work that improves the product.
• Collaborative technical leadership: Experience leading technical projects, mentoring engineers, and explaining design decisions across teams. You’re comfortable setting direction and working through implementation details.

Bonus Points

• Experience with dispatch, fleet management, location services, or ride‑hailing, delivery, and logistics platforms.
• Experience with event‑driven architectures, streaming data, or systems that communicate with vehicles and other connected devices.

At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected base pay range is between $176,000 and $315,00 for the level at which this job has been scoped. Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.

At Nuro, we celebrate differences and are committed to a diverse workplace that fosters inclusion and psychological safety for all employees. Nuro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and expressly prohibits any form of workplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.