Backend Engineer

Why Standard Fleet?

Electric vehicles are superior for just about every business use case. Businesses are rapidly adopting them but lack the software infrastructure to unlock their true value. Our mission is to accelerate the commercial adoption of electric vehicle fleets by setting the standard in EV fleet management.

Every member of the Standard Fleet team is fueled by an unwavering passion for the electrification of transportation and is deeply committed to making our products better. We come from companies like Apple, Uber, Tesla, Stripe, Robinhood, Yelp, and Embark. We’ve gained significant customer traction with a small team and want your help to grow faster.

Standard Fleet is well-funded and backed by some of Silicon Valley’s top investors. We were founded by David Hodge, who previously founded Embark. At Embark, the team built a popular transportation app used by millions, which was eventually sold to Apple.

We’re seeking a backend engineer to help build the software solutions that EV fleets desperately need to unlock the power of connected, electric vehicles. You’ll be an early hire, helping to define the future of electric mobility and empowering thousands of businesses to switch to electric vehicles. 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 electric vehicle 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 electric vehicles and 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) and backend systems (e.g., Go microservices, 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 microservices

• 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 is a hybrid role based out of San Francisco, CA