Senior Full Stack UX Engineer
Aurora develops and commercially operates AI-powered self-driving freight technology through its Aurora Driver system.
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About Aurora Innovation, Inc.
Aurora is a public autonomous-vehicle technology company focused on self-driving freight. Its Aurora Driver combines hardware and AI software to operate trucks and underpins its driver-as-a-service trucking product.
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About the Role
You will lead the full feature lifecycle of the mapping system, from architecture to backend services and user interface. You will build geospatially distributed backend services and data pipelines, develop responsive web applications, mentor engineers, review code, and partner with cross-team and operations stakeholders. In office at least 3 days per week.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Full-stack expertise including scalable backend services and WebGL-based applications using React or Angular
- API design, geometric algorithms in Python, cloud infrastructure and DevOps (AWS, Kubernetes, Buildkite, CI/CD, monitoring)
- Strong UX sensibility and attention to detail
- Communication and collaboration skills with product ownership
- Sound judgment and bias for action
- Desirable: UX design for safety-critical applications; autonomous vehicles or robotics experience; scaling workflows and pipelines
Responsibilities
- Lead the feature lifecycle for the mapping system from architecture to backend and UI implementation
- Architect and develop geospatially distributed backend services and data pipelines for map data
- Build responsive web applications that turn complex datasets into intuitive products
- Influence the team's technical direction and roadmap and mentor engineers
- Participate in code reviews for web and backend codebases
- Partner with cross-team and operations stakeholders to deliver software that improves mapping efficiency
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Equity compensation