Teams at Wheely

Staff Engineer responsible for defining backend architecture and technical standards across Wheely’s platform. The role focuses on distributed systems, reliability, scalability, performance, migrations from a Ruby monolith, infrastructure evolution, and low-latency, high-availability systems. This technical leadership position also supports engineering team development and collaborates with product, data, and infrastructure leaders to deliver a resilient global ride-hailing platform.

Build and maintain scalable backend services primarily in Go, develop microservices, migrate legacy systems, and collaborate with product and data teams on technical designs. Optimize systems for latency, reliability, and heavy-load performance while applying clean code, TDD, domain-driven design, and continuous delivery practices.

Build and maintain high-performance backend services for mapping, including road matching, ETA prediction, geospatial processing, and routing. Develop Go microservices, migrate legacy systems, collaborate on technical designs, and optimize latency and reliability under heavy load. The role requires scalable backend experience, database and messaging expertise, and hands-on mapping or geospatial experience. Work involves TDD, domain-driven design, continuous delivery, AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure managed with Terraform.