Software Engineer, Digital Products Engineering

Digital Products Engineering is responsible for Tesla's customer facing website www.tesla.com which serves customers in over 60 countries, helping users understand and purchase our groundbreaking products, and keep track of their orders through delivery.

Tesla's Digital Product Engineering team is seeking an exceptional software engineer, with experience in backend development, who will be responsible for building information systems to support Tesla's rapid growth while providing a seamless and intuitive customer experience. Candidate will be part of core services team at tesla, which owns backend orchestration of entire vehicle journey from order, purchase, delivery and ownership on tesla mobile app.

The ideal candidate is flexible, motivated and a self-starter with a strong desire to improve efficiency, scalability and make an impact with contributions to a cross-functional team. This is a fast paced, highly rewarding opportunity to make a direct impact on our mission of transitioning the world to sustainable energy.

• Design, develop and support applications and systems under the team's scope, including vehicle order processing, inventory vehicle purchasing, vehicle delivery experience, Tesla account login, software upgrades, and features accessible through mobile app, etc.


• Write clean, maintainable, performant, and well-tested code to implement new features and fix bugs.


• Write unit tests, integration tests, and work with QA to coordinate timely regression for new features.


• Monitor live system metrics, respond to alerts, and troubleshoot production issues.


• Investigate and understand existing system technical functionality and propose technical improvements.


• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders to plan and prioritize new feature development.


• Communicate changes in project estimates, dependencies, and blockers with affected stakeholders quickly.


• Own feature development and projects through design, development, testing, release and production.


• Understand and improve the scalability, maintainability, availability, and visibility of applications.


• Be flexible and quick to respond to changing business priorities and requirements.


• Document newly implemented technologies and application functionality.


• Learn new technologies, practices and business concepts to solve new problems as Tesla grows.


• Work with technologies such as Go, C#, .Net core, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Mongodb, Redis, GraphQL, Php, Python, Javascript, React, Angular, Docker, Kubernetes.


• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience.


• Expert knowledge of REST APIs.


• Experience with microservices, or service oriented architecture.


• Experience with databases (either SQL or NoSQL)


• Good unit testing and integration testing practices.


• Experience with message queue architecture.


• Good communication skills with positive attitude.


• Knowledge in the best code practices including design patterns across different languages/frameworks

Good to have

• Experience writing code in C#, Go, Java, Python, Javascript, or Php


• Working with open source technologies such as Kafka, Debezium, Elasticsearch, etc


• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes


• Experience with Mysql, PostgreSQL


• Knowledge of GraphQL, GRPC, React or any other Javascript frameworks


• Experience working in an Agile/SCRUM Software Development Process

Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

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