Senior Software Engineer, Ride-Hailing Product

Job overview

The Senior Software Engineer, Ride-Hailing Product role is onsite in San Jose, CA, and compensation is $160,360–$240,540 in base pay per year for the scoped level. The engineer supports Nuro’s On-Road Experience team, which builds the real-time distributed systems behind its ride-hailing product. The role develops reliable backend services and APIs that match and dispatch autonomous vehicles and execute trips in real time. It also supports partner integrations and telemetry pipelines, contributing foundational systems for rider and operations experiences.

What you'll do

• Own backend services for ride planning, vehicle matching, and real-time trip execution
• build partner API integrations that route ride requests to Nuro vehicles
• develop telemetry pipelines that surface live vehicle state to riders and operations
• contribute end-to-end product ownership from requirements through launch and iteration.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior software engineer

ride-hailing product

backend engineering

go

distributed systems

real-time systems

gcp

autonomous vehicles

san jose ca

nuro

$160,360–$240,540/year

partner apis

telemetry

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Competitive benefits package
• annual performance bonus and equity eligibility.

Why this role

Requires five or more years of backend engineering experience, strong Go proficiency, distributed systems experience, and hands-on GCP experience such as CloudSQL, BigQuery, or Redis. The posting also describes annual performance bonus and equity eligibility.

About the employer

Nuro is hiring for this role. Industry: Software Publishers. Sector: 51.