Principal Software Engineer

Metropolis is an artificial intelligence company that uses computer vision technology to enable frictionless, checkout-free experiences in the real world. Today, we are reimagining parking to enable millions of consumers to just "drive in and drive out." We envision a future where people transact in the real world with a speed, ease and convenience that is unparalleled, even online. Tomorrow, we will power checkout-free experiences anywhere you go to make the everyday experiences of living, working and playing remarkable - giving us back our most valuable asset, time. 

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead our Customer Experience application development group through the next step function growth phase. As an engineering leader, you will be driving the future of Metropolis products forward, shaping vision and technical strategy that enables us to build top notch customer experiences. This individual will provide immense technical thought leadership and will shape a strong engineering-led culture.   

The ideal candidate will have a product-oriented mindset exuding extreme curiosity to explore customer experiences, obsessively finding opportunities for our customers to make technology experience frictionless. This leader will play a critical role in the company's success by ensuring that advancing the tech is aligned with customer needs and contributes to the company's overall growth and profitability.  

This is a unique opportunity to build an end-to-end mobility platform, that supports high throughput locations, aviation, fleet management and other use cases impacting the everyday experience of millions of people. 

If you are energized by the mission to empower our customers to harness time through remarkable mobility products, this role is for you. We operate in a fast-paced, challenging, and fun environment! We work together as one team to deliver on our commitments. We challenge the status quo every day, internally and externally. 

• Provide technical direction that influences the entire company by formulating and implementing technical vision and strategy. 

• Establish the technologies and best practices needed to achieve operational excellence in system reliability while enabling rapid experimentation and data-informed decisions. 

• Through technology, enable step function improvements in developer experience and velocity. 

• Be a great coach to bring the best out of our engineers and a key driver of hiring top talent. 


• Empower collaborative environment where best product and technical ideas are nurtured and come to life. 


• Influence the industry by creating competitive advantages for our customers through their use of our global platform. 

• 14 years of experience building customer centric applications and products. 

• Experience initiating and driving technical strategy. 

• Proven track record of designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems and software products in high volume consumer facing applications. 

• Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills and expert level knowledge of Scala or Java or related language. 

• Strong experience with data-intensive architectures.  

• Deep understanding of tradeoffs involved in release engineering and other processes. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences. 

• Track record of successful cross-functional collaboration while building customer solutions in B2C and B2B settings. 

• Preferred local to New York City or Los Angeles area. Remote for the right candidate. 

• Advanced degree in a technical field such as computer science. 

• Previous experience working inside innovative, high-growth environments.  

• Experience creating structure within an environment with high levels of ambiguity. 

• Experience with leading the development of industry altering infrastructure. 

• Experience with leveraging AI technology to streamline engineering activities. 

When you join Metropolis, you’ll join a team of world-class product leaders and engineers, building an ecosystem of technologies at the intersection of parking, mobility, and real estate. Our goal is to build an inclusive culture where everyone has a voice and the best idea wins. You will play a key role in building and maintaining this culture as our organization grows. The anticipated base salary for this position is $245,000.00 - 290,000.00 annually. The actual base pay offered is determined by several variables, including, as appropriate, the applicant's qualifications for the position, years of relevant experience, distinctive skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location of residence and/or place of employment. Base pay is one component of Metropolis’s total compensation package, which may also include access to or eligibility for healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a lucrative stock option plan, bonus plans and more.   

Join us in making a difference as we build our future. Metropolis is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to diversity, equality, and inclusion, and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Metropolis prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.