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A day in the life:

Hertz’s TNC team is leading the charge in integrating Hertz vehicles with the world’s largest ride-sharing platforms. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will drive the technical vision, architecture, and engineering standards for mission-critical systems impacting mobility at scale.

What You’ll Do

+ Technical Leadership: Define and evolve architecture for our backend and full stack TNC systems, ensuring scalability, security, and long-term maintainability.

+ Strategic Influence: Partner with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to set technical direction, roadmap, and priorities for major initiatives and platform investments.

+ Complex Problem Solving: Lead development and delivery of the most complex and high-impact projects, often spanning multiple teams and systems.

+ Mentorship & Culture: Mentor, inspire, and coach engineers at all levels; foster a culture of technical rigor, innovation, and inclusive collaboration.

+ Standards & Excellence: Author and review key technical documents, drive adoption of best practices, and proactively identify opportunities to raise the engineering bar.

+ Technical Advocate: Represent the TNC team in technical discussions with stakeholders, partners, and vendors, advocating for scalable and sustainable solutions.

+ Reliability & Operations: Lead incident response for critical issues, conduct deep technical investigations, and drive initiatives to improve observability and reliability.

+ Continuous Innovation: Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies; assess and introduce new tools, frameworks, or architectural patterns where appropriate.

What We’re Looking For

+ Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience. 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with demonstrated experience at the principal/staff level shaping system architecture and technical direction.

+ Technical Expertise: Mastery in at least one modern backend language (Java, C++, Python, or Go); proven ability to architect and scale distributed systems and microservices.

+ Frontend Skills: Experience mentoring or leading teams building modern web applications (React, Vue, Angular, etc.).

+ System Design: Deep understanding of large-scale distributed systems, database design (SQL/NoSQL), data flows, and API performance/reliability.

+ Cloud & DevOps: Advanced experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and robust DevOps practices.

+ Leadership & Influence: Experience providing technical leadership to multiple teams; ability to influence without direct authority.

+ Collaboration: Exceptional communication, cross-functional partnership, and conflict resolution skills.

+ Growth & Innovation: Demonstrated history of technical innovation, driving adoption of new technologies, and mentoring engineers to achieve career growth.

+ Bonus: Deep experience in mobility, ridesharing, telematics, or integrating large-scale third-party platforms.

We expect the starting salary to be around $155k but will be commensurate with experience.

What You’ll Get

+ Up to 40% off any standard Hertz Rental

+ Paid Time Off

+ Medical, Dental & Vision plan options

+ Retirement programs, including 401(k) employer matching

+ Paid Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance

+ Employee Assistance Program for employees & family

+ Educational Reimbursement & Discounts

+ Voluntary Insurance Programs - Pet, Legal/Identity Theft, Critical Illness

+ Perks & Discounts –Theme Park Tickets, Gym Discounts & more

The Hertz Corporation operates the Hertz, Dollar Car Rental, Thrifty Car Rental brands in approximately 9,700 corporate and franchisee locations throughout North America, Europe, The Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The Hertz Corporation is one of the largest worldwide airport general use vehicle rental companies, and the Hertz brand is one of the most recognized in the world.

US EEO STATEMENT

At Hertz, we champion and celebrate a culture of diversity and inclusion. We take affirmative steps to promote employment and advancement opportunities. The endless variety of perspectives, experiences, skills and talents that our employees invest in their work every day represent a significant part of our culture – and our success and reputation as a company.

Individuals are encouraged to apply for positions because of the characteristics that make them unique.

EOE, including disability/veteran