Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Logistics

San Francisco, CA
Software /
Full Time /
On-site
About Nimble

Nimble is a robotics and AI company inventing and scaling autonomous logistics with intelligent robots to enable fast, efficient, and sustainable commerce. We’re developing generalized robot intelligence and building general-purpose mobile manipulator robots, the first in the world capable of performing all core warehouse functions. We've recently closed a $106M Series C funding round at a $1 billion valuation and we're continuing to grow our all-star team.

Our mission is to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial.

Our long-term vision is to invent the Autonomous Supply Chain – everything from the inside of factories and warehouses to your front door – using next-gen intelligent robotics to deliver faster, more efficient, and more sustainable commerce.

We were founded from the AI labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. We’re backed by the World’s most prestigious investors and Nimble’s Board of Directors includes AI and robotics legends like like Marc Raibert (Founder of Boston Dynamics), Fei-Fei Li (Chief Scientist of AI at Google, Director of Stanford’s AI lab), and Sebastian Thrun (Founder of Google X, Waymo, Kitty Hawk, and Udacity)! 

Join us to leave your mark on the future of robotics, AI, and logistics!

Link: Introducing Nimble – Intelligent Fulfillment Robots at Scale

Why Join Nimble?
At Nimble, we are committed to building legendary products, a legendary team, and a legendary legacy. Join us and become part of an ambitious, humble, and resourceful culture where your work will leave a lasting impact on the future of robotics and commerce.

Nimble's Core Values:
Be relentlessly resourceful - Challenge the status quo. Make the impossible, possible. Do whatever it takes.
Be legendary - Be the best at whatever it is that you do. Leave your mark. Motivate and inspire others.
Be humble - Leave your ego behind. Have a growth mindset. Learn and improve yourself every day.
Be dependable - Take ownership and deliver. Be loyal to your team and Nimble's mission.

About Nimble Cloud Logistics
Nimble’s Cloud Logistics software team builds the in-house suite of cloud-native solutions that drive Nimble’s operations and customer integrations. Nimble has developed an all-in-one platform of next-generation solutions, including Warehouse Management System (“WMS”), Transportation Management System (“TMS”), Order Management System (“OMS”), Inventory Management System (“IMS”), and Returns Management System (“RMS”). The entire software stack is native, in-house developed and streamlines customer onboarding through a single integration that eliminates reliance on third-party providers.

About the Role
As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will be both a technical anchor for product development, and mentor for junior engineers. You will play a critical role in working with our world-class cross-functional team to help develop and build the world’s most advanced robotic fulfillment system! Nimble Cloud Logistics is a lean, 10-person team that is core to delivering effective solutions to Nimble’s customers. On occasion, the team is expected to work extended hours, including weekends, to launch large revenue opportunities for the company.

Responsibilities:

    • Set technical direction by wearing both tech lead and architect hats 
    • Own larger initiatives with technical design creation, technical design reviews, and delegating development tasks to others. Examples: Introducing Temporal.io into more parts of the stack, solving optimization problems related to customer order routing and splitting, etc.
    • Influence the overall technical roadmap for the team
    • Drive feature development and launch
    • Manage the team’s backlog, support sprint planning, and cross-disciplinary hand-offs with operations, customer success, and hardware and robotics engineering teams.
    • Challenge product requirements and drive consensus to improved solutions
    • Hands on execution: 
    • Take full ownership of landing features with frontend, backend, tooling, CI, and infrastructure. 
    • Perform hands-on coding, code reviews, on-call production support for live production, and debugging on production incidents and performance bottlenecks in a suite of microservices
    • Continuous improvement: 
    • Uphold high bar for best practices and suggest changes to coding standards style guides
    • Serve as a mentor for junior engineers 

Qualifications:

    • Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
    • 4+ years of industry experience
    • Solid understanding of cloud security practices
    • Experience building full stack cloud applications (both frontend and backend)
    • Experience with REST, SQL, CI/CD, AWS, Kubernetes, message brokering, and Docker
    • Experience with SQL query/schema optimization
    • Strong technical documentation skills (architecture diagrams + sequence diagramming)
    • Strong leadership skills
    • Strong self learning and improvement mindset

Nice to have:

    • AWS EKS
    • Terraform
    • Gitlab CI
    • GoLang
    • GraphQL
    • React
    • Vite
    • Typescript
    • Argo
    • PostgreSQL
$170,000 - $220,000 a year
The listed range is for base salary. There will also be generous equity offered.
Culture:
We embrace challenges and strive to make the impossible possible each day. We’re not in this to do what’s easy or to be mediocre. We want to create something legendary and leave our mark on the world. We’re ambitious, we’re gritty, we’re humble and we’re relentlessly resourceful in pursuit of our goals. If this sounds like you then you might be a great fit!

Press:

Link: Nimble Closes $106 Million Series C Funding Round, Scales Fully Autonomous Fulfillment with FedEx 

Link: FedEx Announces Expansion of FedEx Fulfillment With Nimble Alliance

Nimble Robotics, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions based solely on merit. We provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable state, federal or local laws.


Nimble's Benefits

Paid Time Off
Enjoy the time you need to travel, rejuvenate, and connect with friends and family.

Health Insurance
Nimble provides medical, dental, and vision insurance through several premier plans and options to support you and your family.

Paid Parental Leave
Enjoy paid bonding time following a birth.

Commuter Benefits
Take the stress out of commuting with access to fully-paid parking spots. 

Referral Bonus
Get a cash bonus for any friend or colleagues that you refer to us that we end up hiring. 

401k
Contribute towards a 401k for retirement planning.

Equity
Be an owner in Nimble through our equity program