Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Logistics

Company: Nimble Robotics
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: February 18, 2026

Job Description:

Job Description Job Description About Nimble Nimble is an AI robotics company building the autonomous supply chain to enable fast, efficient, and sustainable commerce. We're developing a general-purpose robot AI and a warehouse generalist superhumanoid robot, the first robot in the world capable of performing all core warehouse functions. We recently closed a $106M Series C at a $1B valuation, and we are continuing to grow our world-class team. Mission: to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial. Vision: invent the Autonomous Supply Chain – everything from the inside of factories and warehouses to your front door – powered by industry-generalist superhumanoids to deliver faster, more efficient, and more sustainable commerce. Our founding team comes from the AI labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon and our board of directors include famed robotics and AI legends including Marc Raibert (founder of Boston Dynamics), Sebastian Thrun (founder of GoogleX, Waymo; Stanford Professor and considered the father of autonomous vehicles) and Fei-Fei Li (Chief Scientist of AI at Google and Director of Stanford's AI Lab). Join us and leave your mark on the future of robotics, AI, and global commerce. Link: Nimble Closes $106 Million Series C Funding Round, Scales Fully Autonomous Fulfillment with FedEx Link: FedEx Announces Expansion of FedEx Fulfillment With Nimble Alliance Why Join Nimble? At Nimble, we are committed to building legendary products, a legendary team, and a legendary legacy. Join us and become part of an ambitious, humble, and resourceful culture where your work will leave a lasting impact on the future of robotics and commerce. Nimble's Core Values: Be relentlessly resourceful - Challenge conventions and overcome obstacles. Be legendary - Be the very best and do work that inspires. Be humble - Prioritize growth, learning, and doing whatever is needed to further the mission. Be dependable - Take ownership and deliver with high agency. About Nimble Cloud Logistics Nimble's Cloud Logistics software team builds the in-house suite of cloud-native solutions that drive Nimble's operations and customer integrations. Nimble has developed an all-in-one platform of next-generation solutions, including Warehouse Management System ("WMS"), Transportation Management System ("TMS"), Order Management System ("OMS"), Inventory Management System ("IMS"), and Returns Management System ("RMS"). The entire software stack is native, in-house developed and streamlines customer onboarding through a single integration that eliminates reliance on third-party providers. About the Role As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will be both a technical anchor for product development, and mentor for junior engineers. You will play a critical role in working with our world-class cross-functional team to help develop and build the world's most advanced robotic fulfillment system! Nimble Cloud Logistics is a lean, 10-person team that is core to delivering effective solutions to Nimble's customers. On occasion, the team is expected to work extended hours, including weekends, to launch large revenue opportunities for the company. Responsibilities: Set technical direction by wearing both tech lead and architect hats Own larger initiatives with technical design creation, technical design reviews, and delegating development tasks to others. Examples: Introducing Temporal.io into more parts of the stack, solving optimization problems related to customer order routing and splitting, etc. Influence the overall technical roadmap for the team Drive feature development and launch Manage the team's backlog, support sprint planning, and cross-disciplinary hand-offs with operations, customer success, and hardware and robotics engineering teams. Challenge product requirements and drive consensus to improved solutions Hands on execution: Take full ownership of landing features with frontend, backend, tooling, CI, and infrastructure. Perform hands-on coding, code reviews, on-call production support for live production, and debugging on production incidents and performance bottlenecks in a suite of microservices Continuous improvement: Uphold high bar for best practices and suggest changes to coding standards style guides Serve as a mentor for junior engineers Qualifications: Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience 4 years of industry experience Solid understanding of cloud security practices Experience building full stack cloud applications (both frontend and backend) Experience with REST, SQL, CI/CD, AWS, Kubernetes, message brokering, and Docker Experience with SQL query/schema optimization Strong technical documentation skills (architecture diagrams sequence diagramming) Strong leadership skills Strong self learning and improvement mindset Nice to have: AWS EKS Terraform Gitlab CI GoLang GraphQL React Vite Typescript Argo PostgreSQL $180,000 - $250,000 a year The listed range is for base salary. There will also be generous equity offered. Culture: We embrace challenges and strive to make the impossible possible each day. We're not in this to do what's easy or to be mediocre. We want to create something legendary and leave our mark on the world. We're ambitious, we're gritty, we're humble and we're relentlessly resourceful in pursuit of our goals. If this sounds like you then you might be a great fit! Nimble Robotics, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions based solely on merit. We provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable state, federal or local laws. Nimble's Benefits Unlimited Flexible Time Off Enjoy the time you need to travel, rejuvenate, and connect with friends and family. Health Insurance Nimble provides medical, dental, and vision insurance through several premier plans and options to support you and your family. Paid Parental Leave Enjoy paid bonding time following a birth. Commuter Benefits Take the stress out of commuting with access to fully-paid parking spots. Referral Bonus Get a cash bonus for any friend or colleagues that you refer to us that we end up hiring. 401k Contribute towards a 401k for retirement planning. Equity Be an owner in Nimble through our equity program

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