Metropolis Technologies
Website:
metropolis.io
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/metropolisio
Seniority: Not Applicable
Industries: Software Development
Job details:
Who We Are
Metropolis is an artificial intelligence company that uses computer vision technology to enable frictionless, checkout-free experiences in the real world. Today, we are reimagining parking to enable millions of consumers to just "drive in and drive out." We envision a future where people transact in the real world with a speed, ease and convenience that is unparalleled, even online. Tomorrow, we will power checkout-free experiences anywhere you go to make the everyday experiences of living, working and playing remarkable — giving us back our most valuable asset, time.
Who You Are
Metropolis is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead one of our Customer Experience application development teams through our next growth phase. In this role, you will drive the future of Metropolis products forward, shaping a vision that enables us to build top-notch customer experiences while providing strong technical thought leadership to shape an engineering-led culture. The ideal candidate possesses a product-oriented mindset and extreme curiosity to explore customer experiences, obsessively finding opportunities to make our technology frictionless, aligned with customer needs, and contributing to overall growth and profitability. This is a unique opportunity to realize a large business impact by building an end-to-end mobility platform that supports high-throughput locations, aviation, fleet management, and other use cases impacting the everyday experience of millions of people within a fast-paced, collaborative team environment that challenges the status quo.
What You’ll Do
- Formulate and implement a technical vision and roadmap that provides direction across the entire company
- Establish the technologies and best practices needed to achieve operational excellence in system reliability while enabling rapid experimentation and data-informed decisions
- Enable step-function improvements in developer experience and velocity through technology
- Coach engineers to bring out their best and actively drive the hiring of top talent
- Empower a collaborative environment where the best product and technical ideas are nurtured and come to life
- Create competitive advantages for our customers through their use of our global platform
What we’re looking for
- 10+ years of experience building customer centric applications and products
- Demonstrate experience initiating and driving technical direction
- Design and deliver large-scale distributed systems and software products in high volume consumer facing applications
- Utilize extremely strong fundamental computer science skills and expert level knowledge of Scala, Java, or a related language
- Apply strong experience with data-intensive architectures
- Display a deep understanding of tradeoffs involved in release engineering and other processes
- Communicate complex information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences through excellent written and verbal skills
- Collaborate successfully across functions while building customer solutions in B2C and B2B settings
- Work proficiently with our tech stack, including TypeScript, React, Scala, Java, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, AWS, Git, GitHub, Copilot, Claude Code, and Datadog
While not required, these are a plus
- Advanced degree in a technical field such as computer science
- Bring previous experience working inside innovative, high-growth environments
- Succeed in engineering situations characterized by high levels of ambiguity
- Lead the development of industry altering infrastructure
- Leverage AI technology to streamline engineering activities
Our Stack:
- Languages + Frameworks: TypeScript, React, Scala (principally), Java (limited)
- Datastores: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake
- Cloud: AWS
- Version control: Git & GitHub
- AI Tooling: Copilot on GitHub and Claude Code
- Observability: Datadog
3 Days in Office: Metropolis values in-person collaboration to drive innovation, strengthen culture, and enhance the Member experience. Our corporate team members hold to our office-first model, which requires employees to be on-site at least three days a week to foster innovation, strengthen culture, and enhance the Member experience.
When you join Metropolis, you’ll join a team of world-class product leaders and engineers, building an ecosystem of technologies at the intersection of parking, mobility, and real estate. Our goal is to build an inclusive culture where everyone has a voice and the best idea wins. You will play a key role in building and maintaining this culture as our organization grows. The base salary offered is determined by a number of variables, including, as appropriate, the applicant's qualifications for the position, years of relevant experience, distinctive skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location of residence and/or place of employment.
Metropolis may utilize an automated employment decision tool (AEDT) to assess or evaluate your candidacy for employment or promotion. AEDTs are used to assist in assessing a candidate’s application relative to the required job qualifications and responsibilities listed in the job posting.
As part of this process, Metropolis retains data relevant to your candidacy, including personal information, for a period that is reasonably necessary for the use of the tool. If you are hired for the position, your data may become part of your employee records.
Metropolis Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. We make all hiring decisions based on merit, qualifications, and business needs, without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, or pregnancy), national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law.
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