Overview

Senior Software Engineer II (Tech Lead) - Telematics, New Products. This is a remote position open to candidates in the UK and Poland. Relocation assistance will not be provided.

Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness IoT data to develop actionable insights and improve operations. Samsara aims to improve safety, efficiency and sustainability of physical operations across industries such as agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing.

Working at Samsara means contributing to the future of physical operations and being part of a team shaping a range of product solutions, including Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, Equipment Monitoring, and Site Visibility. The Telematics team focuses on building both the product and platform for vehicle telematics data and processes trillions of data points annually with a strong emphasis on a world-class customer experience.

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer II, you will spearhead the design and development of products and abstractions based on vehicle telematics data. You will lead technical discussions with teammates to identify gaps in our platform and influence the roadmap by setting direction and recommending solutions. You will collaborate with other teams to understand downstream implications in our product and ensure a seamless customer experience. This role is backend-leaning but involves both web and mobile development.

This role includes ownership of the design and implementation of the core object models powering our platform.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discussions with teammates to identify gaps in our telematics data platform and influence roadmap by setting direction and recommending solutions
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to make design decisions and understand downstream implications in our product to ensure a seamless customer experience
• Ship features that are immediately used by customers and iterate based on feedback
• Deliver full-stack features across front-end, back-end and mobile. Technologies in our stack include Go, GraphQL, TypeScript, React and React Native. Direct experience with these technologies is not required
• Maintain the production systems owned by your team and provide operational support
• Champion and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as the team scales globally

Qualifications

Minimum requirements for the role:

• Demonstrated expertise in establishing data models and contracts in large organizations
• 8+ years of experience designing and building products in a skilled software engineering team
• Track record of leading design, development, deployment and maintenance of distributed, highly scalable software systems
• Experience mentoring and supporting engineers and role modeling excellent engineering practices within a technical lead capacity
• Experience taking end-to-end ownership of product designs, development and delivery of large-scale projects
• Proactive growth mindset with a tendency to improve the status quo

An ideal candidate also has:

• Curiosity about our customers and eagerness to improve their day-to-day experience
• Desire to iterate on new products based on customer feedback
• Experience building ML-enabled products

At Samsara, we welcome everyone. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, and other characteristics protected by law.

Benefits

Full-time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working, health benefits, and more. See our Benefits site to learn more.

Accommodations

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Flexible Working

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