Key skills
Distributed SystemsJavaJavaScriptKafkaKubernetesNode.jsPostgresPythonRabbitMQRedisTypeScriptGoPub/SubPostgreSQLCaching
About this role
Role Overview
- Designing and maintaining the TRR backend — ride matching, station queueing, request lifecycle management, and fare calculation
- Building and operating services on top of PostgreSQL, Redis, and RabbitMQ in a Kubernetes environment
- Improving system observability — tracing, metrics, alerting — so we catch problems before riders do
- Collaborating on API design with our frontend, mobile, and operations teams
- Participating in incident response and post-mortems
Requirements
- Deep fluency in at least one backend language (TypeScript/Node.js, Go, Python, or Java)
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL (query optimization, indexing strategies, schema migrations) and Redis (caching patterns, pub/sub, rate limiting)
- Familiarity with message broker patterns — RabbitMQ preferred, but Kafka or NATS experience translates well
- Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency models, failure modes, backpressure, idempotency
- Experience with Kubernetes in production — not just deploying, but debugging networking issues, resource contention, and pod lifecycle surprises
- Strong debugging instincts
Tech Stack
- Distributed Systems
- Java
- JavaScript
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Node.js
- Postgres
- Python
- RabbitMQ
- Redis
- TypeScript
- Go
Benefits
- Equal employment opportunities to all employees
- Prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type