Zoba | backend engineer and more | Boston / Cambridge / Somerville, MA, USA | ONSITE | FULLTIME | competitive salary + benefits + equity
Zoba provides demand estimation and optimization APIs for mobility. Right now, our customers are primarily micromobility companies interested in questions like “where should we place our vehicles,” “how should we rebalance our fleet,” and "which vehicles should we discount?" Our mission is to “improve the efficiency of cities and the lives of people that live in them.”
Presently we’re a team of 10 people who believe hard in the power and importance of cities as engines of human well-being. We’re looking for a backend engineer with a few years of experience to work on our API. Our backend stack is Python, Django, Postgres/PostGIS, and AWS. Other tools we use include NodeJS, React, Julia, and Gurobi. Of course, we’re always looking for talented, thoughtful, kind people, so if you’re an engineer or data scientist interested in what we do, please get in touch!
We work hard to make Zoba an actively great place to work. Perks include:
- Sane working hours (e.g. since I joined last fall, I’ve worked one night and no weekends)
- Unlimited vacation policy, with a suggested minimum number of days (to avoid the slide to people trying to be tough by taking 0 days)
- Roughly biweekly seminars on team members’ interests, typically not directly work related
- Weekly team lunches
- Have plenty of runway and backed by excellent investors including CRV, Founder Collective, Mark Cuban, and Kaggle founder Anthony Goldbloom
To talk about any and all job opportunities or general questions, you can contact our cofounder Joseph at REDACTED_EMAIL. You can also check out a more formal job posting at <a href=". My role at Zoba is lead data scientist and, empirically, team baker [0]. I’m available at REDACTED_EMAIL if you want to chat.
[0] top rated recent work includes tea caramel bonbons, cardamom buns, and everything bagel flavored challah.
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