Bird is a last-mile electric vehicle sharing company dedicated to bringing safe, low-cost, environmentally-friendly transportation solutions to communities across the world. We provide a fleet of electric, shared scooters that can be accessed via smartphone. Bird is headquartered in Venice, California and is rapidly expanding across the country and the world.

Responsibilities:

• Develop complex software systems scaling to millions of users with production quality deployment, monitoring, and reliability
• Manage and mentor a team of software engineers, encouraging career progression and skills development
• Build a collaborative team, focused on inclusion and respect
• Own your team’s deliverables and ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly-available products
• Maintain a balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects and shipping features quickly
• Resolve vague product requirements and ensure stakeholders are in agreement
• Lead processes to increase the team’s efficiency and quality of work, such as team meetings, sprint planning, and code reviews
• Set performance expectations, recognize achievements, and provide actionable feedback to team members

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 3+ years of management experience
• 5+ years of experience as a technical individual contributor

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 3+ years of management experience
• 5+ years of experience as a technical individual contributor
• Proven leadership ability, especially in hiring, training, and mentoring software developers
• Experience developing complex, scalable features crucial to product success
• Experience in mobile apps or database development
• Self-starter with the ability to turn ambitious ideas into actionable team goals
• Experience managing technical project planning, prioritization, and execution
• Excellent communication skills, capable of connecting with technical and non-technical audiences
• Functional programming experience a plus

Technology we're working with:

• Kotlin
• Swift
• Dropwizard
• Freemarker
• Dagger
• RxJava/RxKotlin
• ReactiveSwift
• Retrofit

Bird Rides Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer, and we welcome everyone regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or genetics. We are dedicated to providing an inclusive, open, and diverse work environment.