Bot Auto

Bot Auto

Frontend Engineer, Autonomous Traffic Control

Houston, TX or San Francisco Bay Area

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 28 days ago
TypeScriptPythonJavaGoReactCSSTailwind CSSViteNode.jsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentAWSCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesRESTKafkaWebSocketsData VisualizationRobotics

About the role

  • With the agility of a start-up and the wisdom of seasoned experts, Bot Auto boasts a team that has achieved numerous world-firsts and unparalleled innovations.
  • Join us and transform your dreams into reality.
  • This is a full-stack role with deep frontend domain expertise.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build full-stack features for Autonomous Traffic Control (ATC), enabling controllers to review vehicle state reports and issue Traffic Advice (reroute, wait, retry, dispatch, escalate) in real time.
  • Develop responsive, data-rich web interfaces using modern frontend frameworks (React, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind), with strong attention to UX, real-time data, and operational reliability.
  • Build the backend services, APIs, and event-driven/streaming integrations that power ATC and connect it to the autonomous fleet and external live feeds (weather, DOT/traffic, operator inputs).
  • Partner with product, autonomy, and operations teams to translate operational workflows (SOPs) into intuitive, dependable software.
  • Own features end to end - from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and operation in production.
  • Uphold engineering best practices with clean, maintainable, well-tested code and thoughtful API and component design.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • 0-3 years of full-stack software engineering experience, with demonstrated frontend domain expertise (new graduates with strong fundamentals are welcome)
  • Proficiency with modern frontend frameworks and tooling (React, TypeScript, and a build system such as Vite
  • Experience with geospatial/mapping visualization (e.g., Mapbox, deck.gl, Leaflet) and large-scale data visualization
  • Familiarity with event-driven architectures and streaming (WebSockets, MQTT, NATS, Kafka)
  • Experience with containerized deployment (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS)
  • Experience collaborating closely with operations teams and turning workflows into product
  • Proficiency with modern frontend frameworks and tooling (React, TypeScript, and a build system such as Vite; CSS frameworks such as Tailwind)
  • Required
  • CSS frameworks such as Tailwind)
  • Strong eye for UX, performance, and building reliable real-time interfaces
  • Familiarity with backend skills in one or more of Python, Go, Java, or Node.js, including building and consuming REST and streaming APIs
  • Preferred
  • Experience building real-time, operations-critical, or mission-control style applications (live dashboards, monitoring, command-and-control)
  • Interest in autonomous systems, robotics, or transportation

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