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Base pay range

$175,000.00/yr - $225,000.00/yr

Robotics will have a massive positive impact on the world economy and global human productivity over the coming decade. At Foxglove, we're excited for this future, and we're building powerful open source and commercial tools to accelerate it.

We're an experienced team of independent thinkers, with a passion for creating high quality products. We're looking for self-motivated and fast-learning individuals to join our mission.

About The Role

We are looking for a highly experienced, product-minded Full Stack Engineer to join our small, skilled, and fast-moving team.

We use full stack TypeScript, with React on the frontend and Node.js on the backend. Shipping features will require you to contribute across the stack.

• Take ownership of our REST API, client libraries, and ensure a seamless API-first developer experience
• End-to-end feature ownership, interacting with customers and our community to understand their needs
• Expand your knowledge of the robotics and self-driving industries
• Work alongside an experienced team on a cutting edge product
  
  

Location

We're a small, fully remote, global company with team members primarily in the U.S. and Australia. We maintain Pacific Time hours and hire within ±4 hours of U.S. time zones to ensure effective collaboration.

For this position, we're looking for someone located in San Francisco.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years professional experience in writing high-performance production software
• 3+ years of professional experience in Robotics or Autonomous system
• Significant professional experience using Go or Rust
• Strong experience with a SQL database, query plan optimization, and scaling data workloads
• Experience with one or more cloud object stores and other data storage mechanisms
• Familiarity with SQL-backed REST APIs
• Familiarity with Kubernetes
• Passion for building technical tools with engineers as the primary users
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, small team environment
• Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions
  
  

Bonus points

• Experience with Spark/Databricks (data sources, Spark SQL, query optimization, administration)
• Infrastructure management (IaC/Terraform, k8s, cloud providers, security)
  
  

What We Offer

• Competitive equity grant in a Series A company
• Medical insurance coverage at 90% for employees and 75% for dependents
• 401k matching up to 4%
• 4 weeks vacation, plus holidays and winter break
• All expenses paid company off-sites 2x/year
  
  

Compensation Range: $175K - $225K

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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