Scout Motors is looking for a Software Engineer to build, maintain, and test software solutions that help change the way we understand people. You will join a team focused on leveraging AI-assisted development to build scalable and robust features.
What You'll Do
- Write, maintain, and test code.
- Leverage LLMs and AI coding assistants to accelerate development while maintaining high quality standards.
- Identify and resolve issues, bugs, and requests efficiently with AI-augmented debugging.
- Collaborate with product managers and designers to build engaging user features.
- Collaborate with your team to design, develop, and maintain scalable, robust, and efficient software solutions leveraging 3rd party APIs.
- Build and integrate AI agents and agentic workflows into the platform and development processes.
- Support internal teams with engineering expertise.
- Collaborate with other engineers to improve the codebase, architecture, and systems.
- Contribute to and refine AI-first development practices and tooling.
- Work with other engineers to build complex features.
What We're Looking For
- 3-5 years of professional software development experience.
- 3+ years of proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript.
- 2+ years of proficiency in one of the following: Python, Ruby, Java, Go, or Rust.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, or similar).
- Ability to effectively prompt and collaborate with LLMs to accelerate development.
- 2+ years of experience with common web technologies, frameworks, and paradigms.
- 2+ years of experience applying fundamental software engineering concepts, conventions, and best practices.
- 2+ years of experience with unit tests and testing best practices.
- Strong critical thinking skills to evaluate and refine AI-generated code.
- Experience developing on one of the following cloud platforms: Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure.
Nice to Have
- 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- Experience building, deploying, or integrating AI agents and agentic systems.
- Experience with Python and Django.
- Experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
- Experience with React.
- Understanding of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) patterns and vector databases.
Technical Stack
- JavaScript, TypeScript
- Python, Ruby, Java, Go, Rust
- Django, React
- Kubernetes, Docker
- Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure
Team & Environment
You will join a cross-functional team of product managers and engineers, which also collaborates with Go-to-market teams at times. The team size is between 10 to 50 employees.
Benefits & Compensation
- Base salary range: $150K USD to $170K USD + equity: Remesh Equity
- Four Day Work Week (4DWW)
- Sabbatical Leave Available
- Medical/dental/vision coverage
- Work from anywhere in the US
- 28 days of PTO annually
- 401k Retirement Plan
- $500 one-time use work from home allowance
- $150 monthly WFH stipend
Work Mode
This position is local-country. You can work remotely from anywhere in the United States, or from our hubs in San Francisco or New York City.
Scout Motors is an equal opportunity employer.
