CareerPlan

Staff Engineer

LondonFull-time2026-10-29 → 2026-11-10
HybridVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Designing and operating large-scale distributed backend systems and platform infrastructure for a global ride-hailing service.

Role type

Staff Engineer (Platform/Infrastructure)

Builds

Shared tooling, backend systems, and infrastructure enabling the entire engineering organization

Domain

Ride-hailing / Transportation / Distributed Systems

Required skills

Backend architecture, distributed systems, system reliability, scalability, performance optimization, API design, data infrastructure

Preferred skills

Experience with Ruby, migration of monolithic systems, consumer-scale products, marketplace dynamics

Technologies

Ruby, distributed systems, APIs, data infrastructure

Responsibilities

Define technical vision and architecture for backend systems, ensure system reliability and scalability, improve performance and fault tolerance, foster engineering excellence culture, support domain-based team structures

Seniority

Staff, hands-on technical leadership