Staff Software Engineer, New Verticals

Lime is the largest global shared micromobility business, operating in close to 30 countries across five continents. They are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to drive core commerce operations and deliver new products and infrastructure for their New Verticals team. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, mentoring individuals, and shaping Lime's engineering culture.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver software to enable new customer initiatives and own the balance between time to launch, ability to pivot, and ability to scale. Seek and utilize knowledge of the Lime engineering ecosystem to find the right solution, or design what's needed
• Learn from our customers by shipping software and understanding the market environment
• Collaborate with coworkers in Product, Design, Data, and Operations. Ensure solutions interoperate well with Lime's full stack of services. The team’s work will span cloud-based backend services, web-based tools, mobile clients, and third-party applications
• Mentor individuals at Lime and participate in learning, growth, and improvement activities
• Participate in the shaping of Lime's Engineering culture

Requirements:

• 7+ years of industry professional software development experience, and a track record of building impactful products or systems
• Team focus: you recognize your team is the source of your success and invest in them. That includes cross-functional collaborators in Product, Design, Data, and Operations
• Owner's mindset: you're focused on outcomes and can solve problems to get there
• Data driven: You instrument your work for decision making, you can reason through data to learn from our customers
• Excellent communication skills and effective management of competing priorities
• Experience shipping Ruby on Rails backend and/or React-based web frontend applications
• Brings a learning mindset to the use of software development tools including AI
• You're enthusiastic about Lime's mission and micromobility; you want to see cities transform to becoming people-centric and less polluted