Product Engineer

About Zūm:

Zūm is revolutionizing mass mobility with its Connected Mobility Experience (Zūm CMX™) system that connects and coordinates people, vehicles, and operations in real time. In the $50 billion student mobility market – the largest segment of the mass mobility industry – Zūm CMX  is transforming a daily source of anxiety and disruption into a reliable, transparent, and efficient mobility experience for students and families. Today, more than 6,500 schools rely on Zūm CMX. Recognized globally for its innovative approach and operational execution, Zūm has been named to Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies, CNBC Disruptor 50 and Changemakers, the World Economic Forum, and the Financial Times’ Fastest Growing Companies lists. Zūm is backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital, GIC, TPG, and Softbank.
This role is based at the Company’s headquarters in Redwood Shores, CA and requires you to be onsite 3x/week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday). We will only consider candidates already based in the Bay Area.  

Who You Are:

• You care about the full lifecycle of a product feature, from idea to the customer seeing it in production, and you measure yourself by the business impact you drive.
• You want to lead the technical design of significant product initiatives built on top of Zūm's platform.
• You devise simple solutions to complex product problems and thrive owning outcomes with real business stakes.
• You lead a small group of engineers through execution.

What You'll Do:

• Be a core technical contributor and lead within backend product engineering, architecting the features and services your team builds, not the platform underneath them.
• Work with other backend engineers to deliver high-quality product features, from ideation to deployment.
• Partner with Product and Design to plan and scope new functionality, and represent engineering feasibility and tradeoffs in that planning.
• Improve and extend existing product-facing systems, building on the shared platform primitives (auth, data access, core services) rather than building your own.
• Introduce tools and process improvements that help your team ship faster, in coordination with platform-wide standards.
• Stay hands-on: own your code from design through production, and quickly see the impact of your work.

What You Bring To Zūm:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent experience. 8+ years of industry experience as a Software Engineer, with a track record of technical leadership on product-facing initiatives.