Roadie, a UPS company, is a leading logistics and delivery platform that helps businesses tackle the complexities of modern retail with unmatched delivery coverage, flexibility and visibility. Reaching 97% of U.S. households across more than 30,000 zip codes — from urban hubs to rural communities — Roadie provides seamless, scalable solutions that meet a variety of delivery needs.
With a network of more than 310,000 independent drivers nationwide, Roadie offers flexible delivery solutions that make complex logistics challenges easy, including solutions for local same-day delivery, delivery of big and bulky items, ship-from-store and DC-to-door.
The Payments and Compliance Engineering team at Roadie is looking for a Software Engineer who is excited to develop backend systems that uphold trust, reliability, and smooth onboarding experiences. In this role, you will collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and partners across the business to strengthen and extend the services that handle payments processing, regulatory compliance, and new account onboarding. Your work will shape the first interactions users have with our platform and support several systems that must operate with a very high level of reliability and accuracy.
You will join a tight-knit team of Engineers who work together on both our long standing Ruby on Rails monolith and our expanding set of Go microservices. A major focus of the team involves shifting core functionality from the monolith into well designed services, and you will help guide this transition as we move toward a more modular architecture.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and maintain APIs and backend services that support product functionality, scalability, and long-term reliability
- Deliver features end to end by writing, testing, deploying, and monitoring code while applying strong observability practices
- Work with core infrastructure components such as SQL databases, and leverage technologies like Kafka or Redis when useful
- Collaborate with engineers across the team to refine existing systems and support the design of new features and solutions
- Partner with senior engineers and tech leads to scope and understand project requirements
- Participate in code reviews, knowledge sharing, and pair programming to support team development
- Apply industry best practices to improve performance, efficiency, and maintainability of applications
- Work closely with Engineering, Product, and Data Science stakeholders to provide input on technical decisions and feature design
- Contribute to evolving and upholding software engineering best practices
Technology We’re Using
- Backend: Ruby on Rails, Go
- Data & Messaging: Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Redshift
- Infra: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
- Tooling: git, GitHub, CircleCI
What You Bring
- 3+ years of software development experience
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent background
- Expertise in Ruby or Go (bonus points if you know both!)
- Curiosity and the ability to pick up new technologies quickly
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience writing clean, stable, maintainable production code
Why Roadie?
- Competitive total rewards package
- 100% company-paid health insurance for yourself
- 401(k) with company match
- Tuition & student loan repayment assistance- yes, we’ll contribute directly to your student loans!
- Remote-first environment
- Unlimited PTO
- Inclusive family leave policy that supports all new parents
- Paid Wellness Days in addition to Company holidays
- Monthly WFH stipend
- Paid sabbatical leave- tenured Roadies are given extra time to unplug, rest, and explore
- The technology you need to get the job done
This role is not eligible for Visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.
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