Starship Technologies is revolutionizing deliveries with autonomous robots. These robots are designed to deliver food, groceries, and packages across college campuses and neighborhoods in minutes. Starship has now completed millions of autonomous deliveries to date, traveled millions of miles, and is currently doing more than 140k road crossings each day. Our contribution to society includes reducing congestion, and pollution, providing zero-emissions deliveries, increasing the quality of life for residents, empowering seniors and disabled people, and enabling affordable delivery for local businesses.

We’re hitting records on an almost weekly basis. Now is an exciting time to join as we grow rapidly around the world!

We're looking for a Software Engineering Team Lead to join the Fleet Orchestration software team and lead a group of 4 software engineers.

Fleet Orchestration software plans what each robot should be doing at any time going forward, at the scale of an entire city. This includes matching robots with deliveries, balancing customer demand with available robot capacity, scheduling wireless charging, calculating accurate ETAs to customers and merchants, and more. Dealing with the complexity and uncertainties of the real world requires a smart mix of data science and software engineering to achieve good results. The team owns their software end to end - identifying and prioritizing the most impactful improvements, implementing them, and analyzing the outcomes.

Your job is to look after the Fleet Orchestration team’s well-being, day-to-day value creation, and long-term productivity.
Your main responsibilities are:

• Managing execution in the team - from data exploration to development to post-rollout monitoring, and everything in between
• Doing code reviews and writing code yourself as needed
• Making good impact and prioritization choices
• Looking after the team’s progress with quarterly goals (OKRs), supporting the goal owner where needed
• Ensuring good tech strategy and sound architecture
• Looking after professional growth and motivation of team members, including mentoring them on technical aspects
• Hiring into the team when needed

What’s in it for you?

• Opportunity to work on industry-leading self-driving delivery robot technology on a uniquely large scale, creating history and making things happen
• You can figure out solutions to complex problems no-one in the world has tackled before
• You will have a chance to work with people with a strong inner burning and motivation. We are self-aware and seek feedback and improvement. We don’t want to wait until we are told what needs to be done but take it as a matter of pride to figure out solutions for topics in various teams and areas
• You’ll have endless opportunities to learn from our inspirational, talented team members across the globe

What we hope you’ll bring to the table:

• Strong technical background in backend development
• Strong quantitative reasoning skills
• Experience working in a well-performing engineering team in a product company
• People management experience
• Experience with TypeScript (there’s also some Go and Rust)
• Data-driven mindset
• Initiative and proactivity, the drive to create impact
• Good communication skills

Want to learn more about our robots and our people? Get in touch and let’s have a chat! Also, have a sneak peek to our blog and discover more about us!