Senior Software Engineer - Back End

About the role:

Mobile Experience Management (MEM) team owns a solution that enables customers to easily manage their mobile devices and provides functionality and features that are optimized for their operations. Our customers can use the MEM to remotely manage their team's devices, available applications, device access, and device home screens. In addition, they can configure safety modes, such as the in-motion screen, on devices to promote safer driving behavior.

We use Golang for our backend, Typescript and React for our web client, GraphQL to fetch data from our backend, Kotlin for mobile apps.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US except Alaska, Austin metro, California, Chicago metro, Connecticut, Dallas metro, Denver metro, Houston metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Washington, and Washington DC metro.

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, and infra engineers to architect, build, test, and deliver full stack features across front-end, back-end, and mobile. 
• Continuously evaluate and improve the performance, reliability, and user experience of our applications.
• Propose technical solutions and spearhead technical solutioning on some of the team’s initiatives
• Help mentor, develop, and support other engineers on the team
• Maintain a regular feedback loop to allow for implementation iterations and making adjustments
• Champion, role model, 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 we scale globally and across new offices

Minimum requirements for the role:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of relevant industry experience in software development
• Strong programming/coding fundamentals with proficiency in at least one of the following: Go, GraphQL, TypeScript, React, Kotlin.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to manage technical discussions and mentor junior engineers.

An ideal candidate also has:

• AWS knowledge and expertise
• Experience in native Android development
• Proactive growth mindset and improve on the status quo
• Enjoy understanding our users and what would make their day-to-day processes easier to manage
• Love shipping features that are immediately used by our customers