Senior/Staff Backend Engineer
Why Standard Fleet?
Standard Fleet is building the next generation of Fleet Management software. With Standard Fleet, electric vehicles are first-class citizens and fleet operators no longer need to install cumbersome "dongles" in their vehicles to track or manage their vehicles. Our mission is to accelerate the commercial adoption of electric vehicles by setting a new standard in fleet management.
Every member of the Standard Fleet team is fueled by an unwavering passion for transportation and electrification and is deeply committed to making our products better. We come from companies like Apple, Uber, Tesla, Stripe, Robinhood, Yelp, and Embark. In 2024 our revenue grew by nearly 6X.
Standard Fleet is well-funded and backed by some of Silicon Valley’s top investors. Some of our founding team members, including our CEO David Hodge, who founded Embark. At Embark, the team built a popular transportation app used by millions, which the team ultimately sold to Apple.
We’re seeking a backend engineer to help build the software solutions that fleets desperately need to unlock the power of connected and electric vehicles. You’ll be an early hire, helping to define the future of mobility and empowering thousands of businesses to switch to electric vehicles in the process. This is a rare opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the future of a rapidly evolving market with enormous growth potential.
Responsibilities
Build and maintain backend services and infrastructure that support our fleet management platform.
Collaborate with design, customer experience, and sales teams, as well as key customers, to define, design, and ship new backend features.
Work on core infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance across our systems.
Own the deployment and monitoring of backend services, ensuring high availability and uptime.
Identify and address infrastructure bottlenecks, scaling issues, and operational challenges as fleets use our software in their day-to-day operations.
Help drive the technical direction of our backend architecture while balancing trade-offs between development speed and system maintainability.
Understand our customers' needs and the electric fleet market intimately to make informed product decisions.
Qualifications
We don’t believe in qualification checkboxes for candidates. These often cause great candidates to think they’re not qualified. If you think you can help us scale our business, let’s talk and see if we’re a fit.
You might be a good fit if…
You have a passion for the future of transportation.
You enjoy working on both backend features and infrastructure, and can confidently move between these areas.
You have strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on scalability, reliability, and performance.
You have experience working with cloud infrastructure (e.g., GCP, AWS).
You have experience with Go and/or Python.
You have a customer-first mindset and are interested in building robust systems that help fleets operate efficiently.
You’re a self-starter who takes initiative and drives projects to completion.
You’re excited about working in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment.
You’re a team player, with the ability to collaborate effectively with a distributed team.
Our Stack
GCP
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, and more
Go
Python
React, Typescript
Benefits
💰 Competitive salary & equity
🩺 Top notch health, dental, & vision insurance
📈 401(k) retirement plan
💻 All equipment provided by Standard Fleet
🚗 First EV purchase subsidy
Location
This role is based out of San Francisco, CA. Our office is located downtown and is dog-friendly.