Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High offer value due to strong employer brand, competitive benefits, and opportunities for meaningful impact on the product.
- Competitive salary with comprehensive benefits.
- Opportunity to shape consumer product in travel tech.
- Requires significant backend tech expertise.
Pros
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits including equity and learning stipends.
- Daily coding and collaboration opportunities in a fast-paced environment.
- Impactful role in shaping a prominent consumer product.
Cons
- Intense workload with expectations for fast results.
- Possible high-stress due to fluid processes in a startup-like setting.
- Require extensive backend tech experience to qualify.
Who it's for
Senior / Lead • Hybrid / Office
Good fit
- Senior backend software engineers.
- Innovative thinkers passionate about technology in mobility.
- Individuals seeking impactful roles in consumer tech.
Not recommended for
- Entry-level developers or those lacking relevant experience.
- Candidates who prefer structured roles with less ambiguity.
- Professionals without strong teamwork or communication skills.
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Turo is the world’s largest car sharing marketplace where you can book the perfect car for wherever you’re going from a vibrant community of trusted hosts across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and France. Whether you're flying in from afar or looking for a car down the street, searching for a rugged truck or something smooth and swanky, Turo puts you in the driver's seat of an extraordinary selection of cars shared by local hosts.
About the team:
We are looking for brilliant software engineers who have a passion for consumer products and want to join an energetic team that is changing the way people think about travel. We ship code daily, A/B test extensively, and have a primary role in creating the product from inception to implementation. There’s much to do, and you’ll be responsible for making some real cool stuff happen.
Our APIs, internal services, and web app are at the core of our stable of software that’s reinventing mobility. Be a member of a small team of talented engineers and designers and play a major role in shaping an exciting app that’s changing how people travel and think about car ownership.
Learn more about our Engineering team here: https://www.beforeyouapply.com/team/engineering-at-turo
What you will do:
- You will collaborate extensively with product management, design, and engineers to develop product features that drive our metrics.
- You will produce high-quality maintainable code, test it, collaboratively review it and ship it.
- You will identify areas to improve and scale our architecture and application design.
- You will develop tools and utilities to diagnose and fix problems.
- Ensure proper technical design and documentation.
- Work efficiently in a constantly changing and growing environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are desired.
Your profile:
- Typically a minimum of 5 years experience shipping high-scale code to production.
- Fluent in at least one language - e.g., Java, Python, Ruby, Go, or C
- Possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, database concepts, distributed systems, and search.
- Enjoy solving problems and helping others meet their goals.
- Passionate about search, streaming, database or other backend technologies.
Bonus if you have:
- Bachelor's/Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related field
- Strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you.
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Benefits
- Competitive salary, equity, benefits, and perks for all full-time employees
- Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (Country specific)
- Retirement employer match
- $2,000 Learning & Development stipend to invest in your professional development
- $1,000 USD Turo host matching and $1,500 USD vehicle reimbursement program
- $100 USD Monthly Turo travel credit
- Cell phone, internet and Fringe benefit stipend
- Paid time off to relax and recharge
- Paid holidays, volunteer time off, and parental leave
- For those who are in the office full-time or hybrid we have weekly in-office lunch, office snacks, and fun activities
- Annual Turbo Week (week-long, company-wide conference)
We are committed to building a diverse team. If you are from a background that's underrepresented in tech, we'd love to meet you.
Aside from an award winning work environment and the opportunity to be part of the world’s largest car sharing marketplace, we are also growing the team quickly - join us! Even if you don't meet every qualification, we are looking for people with enthusiasm for what we do and we will consider you for this and other possibilities.
Turo is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a participant in the U.S. Federal E-Verify program. Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
Turo will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, as applicable.
We welcome candidates with physical, mental, and/or neurological disabilities. If you require assistance applying for an open position, or need accommodation during the recruiting process due to a disability, please submit a request to People Operations by emailing PeopleOps@turo.com.
About Turo
Turo is the world’s largest car sharing marketplace where you can book the perfect car for wherever you’re going from a vibrant community of trusted hosts across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and France. Whether you're flying in from afar or looking for a car down the street, searching for a rugged truck or something smooth and swanky, Turo puts you in the driver's seat of an extraordinary selection of cars shared by local hosts.
Discover Turo at https://turo.com, the App Store, and Google Play, and check out our blog, Field Notes.
Read more about the Turo culture according to Turo CEO, Andre Haddad.
