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Coco is a venture-backed Series A robotics startup operating hundreds of sidewalk delivery robots across Los Angeles. The company is building the last-mile delivery infrastructure for merchants and consumers, partnering with major platforms like DoorDash, UberEats, and GrubHub.
As a Software Engineer on the Delivery Platform team, you will own products end-to-end—from design through development, testing, and production. You'll work closely with product managers to understand user needs (merchants, consumers, internal stakeholders), propose technical solutions, structure and manage projects for junior engineers, and report on impact. This is an in-office role at the Venice, CA headquarters; Coco is an office-first, highly collaborative company.
The Delivery Platform team is diverse and owns the full stack across several domains:
**Consumer and Merchant Products**: Build frictionless, efficient delivery experiences—designing robot interactions (loading, tracking, unlocking) around user pain points and moments of delight.
**Order Ingestion**: Build and manage software partnerships that allow Coco to receive orders from major platforms and custom systems. Work on integrations and enjoy test orders from partner restaurants.
**Delivery Management**: Develop backend services that make automated decisions based on user behavior, supply/demand, regulations, sidewalk conditions, and more.
**Logistics**: Partner with other Coco teams (Merchant Operations, Consumer Experience, Field Operations, TeleOperations, Autonomy) to tackle efficiency and profitability initiatives.
**Internal Tools**: Maintain mobile and web applications for Field Operations and remote Pilots to manage robot fleets and deliveries.
**Device Infrastructure**: Build backend services that communicate with robots, tracking health, battery status, location, and other telemetry at low latency.
**Tech Stack**: Golang, Typescript, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Datadog.
**Requirements**:
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience
- 2+ years of professional software development experience
- Experience designing and leading implementation of new platform features and services, including AWS deployment
- 1+ year supporting business-critical services in production
- Experience developing backend services in Go (preferred) or strong fluency in Python, Java, Rust, or C++, with willingness to work primarily in Go
- 1+ year SQL database fundamentals
**Preferred Qualifications**:
- Experience with message queues or pub/sub frameworks (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Kubernetes experience
- Startup environment experience
