Job Description

About Rivian Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract. As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations. Role Summary In this role, you will be a technical lead building Rivian’s Commercial Tech Platform & API services to support partner teams. The sales platform will integrate with existing services and develop new UI experiences for internal applications. The ideal candidate is an experienced leader capable of collaborating with product management, engineering leaders, cross-functional teams, and architects to build a world-class product. You should take ownership of your domain, manage uncertainties, and be driven to solve complex problems, with a strong focus on system scalability and back-end performance. Responsibilities Create client-side applications along the vehicle customer journey, from the moment the customer takes the keys, to their experience when charging, to when their vehicle needs service. Collaborate with UX/UI designers and product designers to build user-friendly, immersive, reactive applications. Collaborate with data systems engineers to help define the endpoint integration needs of your team. Come together with your peers to share ideas, ask why with an open and curious mind, learn from each other’s diverse perspectives, to deliver great work as a team. Develop, unit test, and document performant code, ensuring efficient browser memory usage and fast load time. Help define the architectural vision of the team. Qualifications 8+ years of relevant industry experience, with 5+ years of building large scale enterprise grade systems. Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technology field. Experience building distributed systems at scale which can handle millions of transactions/seconds. Software development experience in Python/Java, Node.js. Proficiency in developing frontend components and single-page applications using technologies like Typescript and React (or similar) with a keen eye for design. Cloud development experience with AWS, GCP or Azure. Comfortable navigating trade-offs to bring the right data structure and algorithms to the problem. Meticulous around visibility of the systems you build – security, metrics, centralized logging, tracing. Dedicated to unit, integration testing and coverage – comfortable using tools of the trade on profiling, source control. Experience developing APIs with the care they deserve with GraphQL/REST. Experience and familiarity with cloud native deployment practices – specifically containers and container orchestration platforms. Experience with publish/subscribe event buses as well as distributed data stores. Strong technical background in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technology field. Solid understanding of databases (Postgres, RDS, DynamoDB, etc.) Familiarity working with AWS Lambdas, Docker and Kubernetes or other serverless and container-based architectures. Proficiency with cloud infrastructures (AWS preferred) Equal Opportunity Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law. Rivian is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at [email protected]. Candidate Data Privacy Rivian may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law. 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