Senior Software Engineer, Backend

San Francisco💼 Full-time💰 $156,000–$156,000🗓 2026-09-10 → 2026-09-25

Core

Backend engineer building APIs, internal services, and web apps for a car-sharing marketplace, focusing on high-scale code, architecture, and search/streaming technologies.

Role type

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Builds

APIs, internal services, and web applications for a car-sharing marketplace

Domain

Mobility / Car-sharing marketplace / Backend infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

High-scale code development, AI-enabled development and tooling, distributed systems, search technologies, streaming technologies, database concepts, data structures, algorithms

Preferred skills

Java, Python, Ruby, Go, C

Technologies

Java, Python, Ruby, Go, C

Responsibilities

Collaborate with product management and design to develop product features, produce and review high-quality maintainable code, identify areas to improve and scale architecture, develop diagnostic tools and utilities, ensure technical design and documentation

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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About turo

Turo is the world’s largest car sharing marketplace where you can book the perfect car for wherever you’re going from a vibrant community of trusted hosts across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and France. Whether you're flying in from afar or looking for a car down the street, searching for a rugged truck or something smooth and swanky, Turo puts you in the driver's seat of an extraordinary selection of cars shared by local hosts.