Backend Engineer

Why Standard Fleet?

Standard Fleet is building the next generation of Fleet Management software. With Standard Fleet, electric vehicles are first-class citizens and fleet operators no longer need to install cumbersome "dongles" in their vehicles to track or manage their vehicles. Our mission is to accelerate the commercial adoption of electric vehicles by setting a new standard in fleet management.

Every member of the Standard Fleet team is fueled by an unwavering passion for transportation and electrification and is deeply committed to making our products better. We come from companies like Apple, Uber, Tesla, Stripe, Robinhood, Yelp, and Embark. In 2024 our revenue grew by nearly 6X.

Standard Fleet is well-funded and backed by some of Silicon Valley’s top investors. Some of our founding team members, including our CEO David Hodge, who founded Embark. At Embark, the team built a popular transportation app used by millions, which the team ultimately sold to Apple.

We’re looking for a hungry, early-career backend engineer to help build the software solutions that fleets desperately need to unlock the power of connected and electric vehicles. You'll work alongside experienced engineers who will invest in your development while giving you real ownership from day one. This is a rare chance to accelerate your career at a fast-growing startup while helping shape the future of electric fleet management.

Responsibilities

• Ship backend features and fixes that directly impact how real fleets operate their vehicles day to day.

• Learn and contribute across our backend services and infrastructure, developing a broad understanding of our platform.

• Collaborate with senior engineers on system design, gaining hands-on experience with scalability, reliability, and performance challenges.

• Participate in code reviews, giving and receiving feedback to sharpen your engineering skills.

• Work cross-functionally with design, customer experience, and sales teams to understand what customers need and translate that into backend solutions.

• Own the deployment and monitoring of features you build, developing a strong sense of operational responsibility.

• Progressively take on more complex projects as you grow, with a path toward owning significant parts of our backend architecture.

Qualifications

We don’t believe in qualification checkboxes for candidates. These often cause great candidates to think they’re not qualified. If you think you can help us scale our business, let’s talk and see if we’re a fit.

You might be a good fit if…

• You're curious and love to learn. You pick up new languages, tools, and concepts quickly and enjoy the process.

• You have foundational backend experience — personal projects, internships, bootcamps, open source contributions, or 0–2 years of professional work all count.

• You have some exposure to Go, Python, or similar languages and are excited to go deeper.

• You write clean, thoughtful code and care about doing things well, not just getting things done.

• You're comfortable asking questions, admitting what you don't know, and figuring things out from there.

• You have a bias toward action — you'd rather try something and iterate than wait for perfect requirements.

• You're genuinely excited about electric vehicles, transportation, or sustainability.

• You thrive in environments where the pace is fast and the problems aren't pre-defined.

Our Stack

• GCP

• MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, and more

• Go

• Python

• React, Typescript

Benefits

💰 Competitive salary & equity
🩺 Top notch health, dental, & vision insurance
📈 401(k) retirement plan
💻 All equipment provided by Standard Fleet
🚗 First EV purchase subsidy

Location

This role is based out of San Francisco, CA. Our office is located downtown and is dog-friendly.