Nimble Ai

Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Logistics

Nimble Ai San Francisco, CA 29 days ago
engineering
About Nimble

Nimble is a frontier robotics and AI company building the next era of autonomous logistics. We design, manufacture, and deploy intelligent robots that enable fast, efficient, and sustainable commerce at global scale. Our team is building generalized robot intelligence and developing the world’s first generalist super-humanoid robots capable of performing all core warehouse workflows with superhuman performance.

We recently closed a $106M Series C at a $1B valuation, and we are continuing to grow our world-class team. Our long-term vision is to create the Autonomous Supply Chain—reinventing how goods move through factories, warehouses, and last-mile distribution using next-generation intelligent robotic systems.

Nimble was founded out of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon’s top AI labs and is backed by the world’s most prestigious investors. Our board includes iconic leaders in AI and robotics such as Marc Raibert (Founder of Boston Dynamics), Fei-Fei Li (Former Chief Scientist of AI at Google, Director of Stanford’s AI lab), and Sebastian Thrun (Waymo, Founder of Google X, Kitty Hawk, and Udacity).

Join us and leave your mark on the future of robotics, AI, and global commerce.


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 conventions and overcome constraints.
Be legendary - Pursue excellence and craft work that inspires.
Be humble - Prioritize growth, learning, and the mission over ego.
Be dependable - Take ownership and deliver with integrity.

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
  • 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!

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    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