metropolis

Staff Software Engineer, Visit Experience

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At a Glance

Location
New York, United States
Experience
10+ years
Posted
2026-02-25T13:38:18-05:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

JavaScala

Domain Knowledge

  • Engineering

Requirements

Metropolis is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead our Visit Experience team. At this level, you make work happen quickly and simply, ensuring upfront alignment on priorities and decision-making criteria for major initiatives. You solve technical problems that few others can and play a critical role in setting the technical direction and goals for the team in terms of both project impact and engineering craft. You are capable of leading major initiatives involving more than one team and leading rollouts of major initiatives like shared airport exits. You influence the engineering culture in your org and advocate for higher product quality and engineering efficiency.

10+ years of experience building customer-centric applications and products

Experience initiating and driving technical direction

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, Java, or a related language

Responsibilities

Provide technical direction that influences the entire company by formulating and implementing a technical vision and roadmap

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 a collaborative environment where the best products and technical ideas are nurtured and come to life

Create competitive advantages for our customers through their use of our global platform

About the Company

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, making everyday experiences of living, working, and playing remarkable and giving us back our most valuable asset, time.