Senior Backend Software Engineer

Palo Alto, CA

Wing offers drone delivery as a safe, fast, and sustainable solution for last mile logistics. Consumer appetites for on-demand services are increasing, but current delivery methods are inefficient, costly, and contribute to road accidents and air pollution. Wing's fleet of highly automated delivery drones can transport small packages directly from businesses to homes on-demand, in minutes. We design, build, and operate our aircraft, and offer drone delivery services on two continents. Our technology is designed to be easy to integrate into existing delivery and logistics networks, offering a scalable drone delivery solution for a broad range of businesses. Wing is a part of Google's parent company, Alphabet, and our mission is to create the preferred means of delivery for the planet. If you're ready to do the greatest work of your life, come join us.

Wing is looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our Ground Systems Engineering team based in Palo Alto, CA. This role will directly contribute to building and scaling the systems that enable safe and efficient drone operations worldwide, specifically focusing on our commercially-facing services and uncrewed air traffic management. You'll work on complex challenges at the forefront of aviation and technology, helping to get Wing's drone delivery into the hands of more partners and customers. Our mission in Ground Systems is to build safe, reliable, and scalable systems with a detail-oriented mindset, allowing our business to expand while always delivering a customer-first experience. This position seeks highly-motivated individuals who enjoy working in a highly dynamic and collaborative team environment. A successful candidate will be able to identify areas in need of investment, set solution strategy, influence team direction, and have direct impact through their technical contributions, cutting through ambiguity, and designing and building complex systems. We're looking for people who are intrinsically driven to collaborate on hard problems, drive simple solutions, and take pride in their team's work.

• Engineering Design: Set engineering design strategy for yourself or a limited number of peers, cutting through ambiguity, and pre-empt complicating factors ahead of time.
• System Design & Development: Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain large-scale, distributed software systems including asynchronous pipelines, database systems, RPC handlers in collaboration with frontend engineers and backend engineers, in a privacy and security conscious ecosystem.
• Navigate Ambiguity: Investigate and build software in areas with limited expertise and make an immediate impact.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner directly with business partners, product managers, designers, and program managers to design, implement and launch new features.
• Incident Response & On-Call: Participate in an on-call rotation to address urgent production issues, troubleshoot complex problems, and implement long-term solutions.
• Team Culture: Contribute to a team culture of support, engagement and quality, ensuring Wing can scale as a business.

• 8+ years of experience designing and developing backend software.
• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a similar degree (or equivalent experience).
• Excellent written and verbal skills and experience working in a collaborative team.
• Ability to identify and independently solve challenging problems. Demonstrates high accountability and ownership over the implemented solutions.
• Experience developing backend systems involving database schema design, and synchronous/asynchronous systems.
• Proficiency in C++, or ability to quickly pick up C++ with experience in similar languages like Java, or C.

Salary Range $222,000-$236,000 USD

Wing is an equal opportunity employer and it is Wing's policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity. Employment at Wing is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. Wing does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. If you have a need that requires accommodation during the interview process due to a disability or special need, please let us know by completing our Candidate Accommodations Request Form.