Senior/Staff Backend Engineer

Standard Fleet is building the next generation of fleet management software. We treat vehicles as first-class citizens—so operators can connect to, track, and manage their fleets without installing cumbersome aftermarket “dongles.” We started with EVs, and now we’re building the platform for every drivetrain: electric, hybrid, and ICE. Our mission is to modernize commercial transportation by setting a new standard for how fleets are connected, operated, and scaled.
Every member of the Standard Fleet team is fueled by a deep passion for transportation and is committed to making our products meaningfully better each week. We come from companies like Apple, Uber, Tesla, Stripe, Yelp, and Embark. We’re growing quickly, having raised $20m in total funding.
Standard Fleet is well-funded and backed by some of Silicon Valley's top investors. Some of our founding team members, including our CEO David Hodge, previously founded Embark, a popular mobility software company that was acquired by Apple. We’ve succeeded before and we’re now back at it and swinging for the fences.

• Build and maintain backend services and infrastructure that support our fleet management platform.

• Collaborate with design, customer experience, and sales teams, as well as key customers, to define, design, and ship new backend features.

• Work on core infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance across our systems.

• Own the deployment and monitoring of backend services, ensuring high availability and uptime.

• Identify and address infrastructure bottlenecks, scaling issues, and operational challenges as fleets use our software in their day-to-day operations.

• Help drive the technical direction of our backend architecture while balancing trade-offs between development speed and system maintainability.

• Understand our customers' needs and the electric fleet market intimately to make informed product decisions.

We don’t believe in qualification checkboxes for candidates. These often cause great candidates to think they’re not qualified. If you think you can help us scale our business, let’s talk and see if we’re a fit.

• You have a passion for the future of transportation.

• You enjoy working on both backend features and infrastructure, and can confidently move between these areas.

• You have strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on scalability, reliability, and performance.

• You have experience working with cloud infrastructure (e.g., GCP, AWS).

• You have experience with Go and/or Python.

• You have a customer-first mindset and are interested in building robust systems that help fleets operate efficiently.

• You’re a self-starter who takes initiative and drives projects to completion.

• You’re excited about working in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment.

• You’re a team player, with the ability to collaborate effectively with a distributed team.

• GCP

• MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, and more

• Go

• Python

• React, Typescript

💰 Competitive salary & equity
🩺 Top notch health, dental, & vision insurance
📈 401(k) retirement plan
💻 All equipment provided by Standard Fleet
🚗 First EV purchase subsidy

This role is based out of San Francisco, CA. Our office is located downtown and is dog-friendly.