Software Engineering Manager - Fleet Management Backend Services
Zoox
Software Engineering, Other Engineering
Foster City, CA, USA
Posted on Jul 9, 2025
Zoox is seeking a seasoned Software Engineering Manager to lead the Fleet Management team. The team is central to enabling successful driverless robotaxis service, handling business critical and customer centric functions like dispatch, routing, telemetry.
You will be leading a team of software engineers and working in a highly cross disciplinary and cross functional setup interfacing with all aspects of Robot and service enablement.
In this role, you will:
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of individual contributors, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
- Provide technical guidance, establish and monitor key performance indicators to measure the effectiveness of optimization strategies and drive continuous improvement
- Manage the allocation of resources within the team, ensuring that projects are staffed appropriately and that team members have the necessary tools and support to succeed
- Work with partner teams to deliver tested high quality solution that meets the requirements of client services, as well as ensure smooth integration, deployment
- Proactively identify risks (schedule/quality/feature) and put in mitigation measures
Qualifications:
- BS / MS in Computer Science or similar degree and/or 10+ years of relevant experience
- 5+ years Management experience including personnel management, hiring, budget
- Experience successfully shipping large-scale backend services/platforms to production
- Leading & delivering in fast paced and agile environment, in a highly cross organizational setup
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages like Kotlin or Java
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience working Dispatch systems, Routes, Maps
- Experience in Ride Hail / AV Industry