Dallas, United States

About Alto

Alto is on a mission to redefine the rideshare experience for passengers, drivers, and employees alike. Through our business model of professional employee drivers and a dedicated fleet of luxury vehicles, we are turning rides into exceptional experiences by delivering industry-leading safety, consistency, and personalization. As the first vertically-integrated fleet manager and ridesharing service, we are also committed to leading the industry by transitioning our entire fleet to electric vehicles. We are rapidly growing and accelerating towards a nationwide expansion. Today, we operate in Los Angeles, Dallas, Washington D.C., Miami, San Francisco, and Houston.

Alto is a destination for innovative, intellectually curious, and forward thinking people. Learn more about us here.

As a Backend Engineer, you will contribute to and own the design and development of the best-in-class Cloud Native applications that are the backbone of our Driver Experience.

What you’ll do:

Participate in the design, development, deployment, and operation of our microservices, APIs, and other applications used by various new and existing mobile and web applications
Build web portals and integration services using modern technology platforms and frameworks such as Node, Kubernetes, Serverless Functions, and Typescript
Play an active role in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of architecture, design patterns, platforms, and tools
Collaborate with other team members across engineering, product, customer support, operations, and others
Become part of a team that values culture, camaraderie and inclusion at all levels

What you bring to the table:

3-4 years of software development experience or relevant transferable skills
Experience in modern development technologies used to design, deliver, debug, and maintain back-end software systems
1-2 years of experience writing backend JavaScript applications using Node and Express (or similar technologies)
Experience with APIs and microservice patterns using Kubernetes a plus
Experience with modern relational and non-relational database platforms
Experience with Git
Excellent communication skills, a positive attitude, and self-motivation
Ability to operate in an agile, entrepreneurial start-up environment
Experience with Firestore and Istio a plus, as well as operations research and optimization

What's In It For You

Salary, bonus and equity in an innovative startup
Monthly credit to ride Alto, plus membership!
Medical, dental and vision benefits
401k with 100% company match up to 4%
Professional development reimbursement up to $1,000
Unlimited time off, plus 11 company holidays

** Alto does not partner with external recruitment vendors, agencies or firms on any searches. **

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