Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

at  Hertz

A DAY IN THE LIFE

Come join us in our on-going digital transformation at Hertz!
The Hertz Telematics Platform was built from the ground up to be an AWS cloud native application, using AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) to dynamically generate templates & deploy resources.
This infrastructure as code is used to describe the complete ingestion, processing, data export & APIs for the entire Hertz fleet, worldwide.
It filters, processes & evaluates millions of distinct events a minute, from hundreds of thousands of vehicles, from many OEMs, in several countries, with multiple consumers internally and externally through a variety of streams, queues and REST APIs.
Our teams are small, agile, and there is a startup feel to the work we do, with plenty of room to innovate.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

We are looking for an experienced Full Stack Software Engineer to join our team, working on uses cases related to vehicles (ICE, Hybrid & EVs) connected to our Hertz Telematics Platform and other Hertz APIs.
You’ll be involved in varied integration initiatives for Telematics, including working with 3 rd -party engineers to help them shape their API designs for our use cases. You’ll also have the opportunity to work on a modern UX driven React web application that is the window into Hertz’ fleet.
This is a senior engineering role with lots of room to grow & take the lead on specific initiatives.
If you enjoy working with the latest technologies, large volumes of data, modern UX & development best practices and robust reliability in production at scale, this could be the role for you.

ESSENTIALS SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• 5+ years of Software engineering experience
• Experience working in an Agile environment, and cooperating with Product Manager & other engineers required .
• BSc/MSc in Computer Science or equivalent qualifications or professional experience.
• A sense of ownership and pride in your work and its impact.
• Organized and effective communicator.
• Critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and time-management skills.

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• AWS & Lambda or ECS or EKS or K8s or similar cloud hosted software experience.
• Strong coding experience required in at least two of these languages or similar OOP language:
• Java or Groovy or Kotlin or Scala
• Javascript or Typescript
• Python
• Experience in modern JS frameworks like React or Vue or Angular & testing technologies.
• A desire & willingness to learn new technologies, language agnostic & versatile.
• Source control experience with Git & ideally GitHub Enterprise.

DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• Big Data processing with Stream or Queue technologies such as Kinesis, Kafka, SQS etc.
• AWS & other professional certifications are a plus.
• Experience communicating with stakeholders, product & UX teams.
• Ability to design solutions & communicate those designs effectively.
• Experience leading a project or owning a solution.
• Linux / OSX knowledge & bash scripting experience.
• Scripting, build & automation tools experience in any one or more of the following a plus:
• Bash & shell scripting
• pip, pipenv, poetry etc.
• npm, node, yarn etc.
• groovy or maven
• Jenkins or Github actions
• CloudFormation, Docker, K8s, EKS, ECS and similar orchestration software experience is a plus.
• Experience monitoring APIs, for health, usage & rate-limiting desireable.Experience automating software testing, versioning, releases, deployments & rollbacks in AWS using Jenkins or GitHub Actions is a plus.

• Work in an Agile environment with Engineering, QA & Product leaders in Sprints
• Collaborate with fellow engineers, product managers, UX & stakeholders to design & deliver innovative solutions to business challenges
• Contribute to all stages of the software development lifecycle from inception to deployment
• Design, document and implement new innovative solutions with a wide variety of technologies
• Learn on the job and bring new solutions, ideas & technologies to the team
• Contribute to an environment of cutting edge, high quality, well monitored, reliable cloud native software
• Take ownership of initiatives, inform processes and work with peers with a variety of backgrounds and an eagerness to learn, support and grow professionally
• Peer review code, giving and receiving productive feedback, and sometime challenging and being challenged on implementation decisions