Application Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Application Engineer
Onsite in Foster City, CA | at least 3 days in office

At Zoox you'll design, create, and maintain internal processes, integrations, and applications. You'll develop back-end components to improve existing applications and implement security best practices to existing applications all while creating standards to improve existing architecture to ensure consistency across internal applications and data integrity. You'll also develop applications supporting physical product design, manufacturing, logistics, and inventory systems while driving the design and architecture of internal applications.

Responsibilities:

• Design, create, and maintain processes, integrations, applications and scripts, mostly on the backend with Python
• Deploy cloud resources mostly with Terraform
• Some frontend (JS, React, Typescript)
• Design system requirements for new and existing applications
• Create and implement company-wide tools and methodologies
• Oversee, and often perform, major application installations and upgrades
• Develop applications supporting physical product design, manufacturing, logistics, and inventory systems
• Review peer code
• Contribute to many internal git repositories

Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of Python and web frameworks such as Flask and Django
• API development experience in Python (graphql, REST)
• Experience with SQL/No
  
  SQL databases (MySQL, Postgres, Dynamo
  
  DB)
• Understanding of ORM (object-relational mapping) libraries such as SQL Alchemy
• Excellent python coding skills and understanding of python best practices
• Cloud (AWS) development and deployment experience
• General frontend development knowledge (React, Type Script)
• Good communication skills, and ability to collect requirements from customers
• Great customer service skills as it relates to application support and training
• Experience with docker or similar container based systems

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience with developing internal business applications
• Experience supporting physical product design, manufacturing, logistics, or inventory systems
• In-depth knowledge of Linux systems
• Experience supporting physical product design, manufacturing, logistics, or inventory systems
• Exposure to bill of material management and data integrity
• Experience with authentication, authorization methods and access control
  
  Pay Rate:
  Starts at 90/hr+ based on exp