Job Description

eIQ Mobility is looking for a Software Architect to lead development of our flagship platform. This is a rare opportunity to take on a key role with an early stage start-up and engage in the exciting, and red-hot, electric mobility market.

As Software Architect at eIQ Mobility, you will spearhead the design, development and launch of our flagship, cloud-based, software platform. You will build your team and ensure that the solution is scalable, reliable, and secure while ensuring achievement of desired business objectives. You demonstrate a strong entrepreneurial spirit, steadfast customer focus, and collaborative mindset. You embrace innovation, challenging work, and get excited about building things from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business/product requirements to define and design the platform architecture and systems integration.
• Design, plan, and manage all development operations related to continuous integration, continuous delivery, and process automation.
• Manage orchestration, configuration, and provisioning automation.
• Build automation tools and frameworks for on-demand deployment environments, application definition, and application monitoring.
• Lead recruitment and hiring efforts for technical team supporting platform development while maintaining a strong individual development contribution.
• Present architecture and design to internal/external stakeholders. Able to communicate complex technologies in a simple manner to all teams, including non-technical.
• Support prototype and proof-of-concept work without losing focus on the big picture architecture.
• Develop and maintain architecture and platform documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field (Masters or PhD preferred but not required).
• At least 5 years of experience as a software architect.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, and leading software developers with a strong professional network, recruiting capability, and ability to limit team turnover.
• Full-stack development experience building scalable web applications.
• Experience building enterprise scale applications on one, or more, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.). Experience with GCP highly preferred.
• Experience with test-driven development practices.
• Ability to work and adapt to aggressive and dynamic objectives.
• An innovator that seeks novel, and scalable, approaches to solve customer pain.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. Ability to communicate the design value and economic value of recommended architectures.
• Strong focus on customer experience with discipline to secure on-time releases.

Bonus Qualifications & Characteristics

• Experience managing software engineering teams both onsite and remote
• Passion for clean-tech

Additional Information

Location: This position will be located in Oakland.

eIQ Mobility is an early stage startup motivated to accelerate the electrification of fleet vehicles. During our incubation we executed 250+ customer interviews to understand their pain in moving to electric vehicles. Our initial product, the electrification planning and decision platform we call EValuate, is a direct outcome of those interviews. Our longer term vision is to provide fleet electrification as a service, allowing our customers to move to zero-emissions with zero risk. We are very proud to have received initial seed funding from Schneider Electric Ventures.

eIQ Mobility: www.eiqmobility.com