Jobs at Slate (slate.auto)

Leads multiple engineering teams building Slate’s commerce platform, including product discovery, vehicle and accessory configuration, checkout, payments, order management, and fulfillment. Responsibilities include technical strategy, architecture, organizational planning, hiring, coaching, performance management, cross-functional collaboration, and delivery oversight. The role establishes engineering standards for reliability, scalability, performance, quality, and operational excellence while guiding complex technical decisions and developing engineering leaders.

Leads the Commerce engineering organization responsible for product discovery, vehicle and accessory configuration, cart and checkout, payments, order management, and fulfillment. Manages hiring, development, technical strategy, architecture, engineering quality, reliability, and execution. Partners with Product, UX, and business leaders to deliver scalable customer-facing software, guide complex technical decisions, and balance business priorities with long-term technical excellence.

Build and maintain performant, reliable customer-facing web and mobile experiences. Own frontend architecture, component design, state management, testing, accessibility, cross-browser compatibility, and production readiness. Collaborate with Product, Design, and UX to translate customer needs into technical solutions, participate in code reviews and design discussions, improve system maintainability, and mentor other engineers.

Owns the architecture, technical direction, and implementation quality of Slate’s React Native mobile application. Leads C++ vehicle communication modules, security and encryption, backend-for-frontend integrations, observability, CI/CD, OTA releases, and iOS/Android certification. The role drives architecture decisions, resolves complex native and vehicle communication issues, mentors engineers, and supports the mobile product through its general availability launch.

Lead the architecture, implementation, testing, and delivery of scalable customer-facing software systems spanning multiple teams. Make technical decisions, drive design and code reviews, integrate third-party SaaS platforms, improve system quality and performance, collaborate with product and UX teams, mentor engineers, and shape company-wide technical objectives.

Leads architecture, implementation, testing, and delivery of major customer-facing software systems spanning multiple teams. Makes complex technical decisions, drives code and design reviews, ensures quality and integration, collaborates with product and UX, mentors engineers, and shapes company-wide technical direction. Builds scalable distributed systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and third-party integrations while simplifying ambiguous problems and delivering reliable customer experiences.

Design, build, test, and deliver complex customer-facing software features and services for Slate’s digital platform. Own technical approaches, quality, APIs, cloud-based web services, integrations, and trade-off decisions. Collaborate with product and UX teams, conduct code and design reviews, identify risks, coordinate work, and mentor teammates while delivering reliable, scalable solutions.

Build and ship customer-facing digital platform features for Slate’s direct-to-consumer EV brand. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, reviewing, and owning the quality of software components; integrating third-party APIs; collaborating with product and UX teams; solving problems independently; and supporting teammates through knowledge sharing.

Lead UX strategy and design for vehicle products and experiences. Establish UX processes, collaborate with Brand, HMI, Engineering and Software, validate designs with research, and present actionable recommendations to executives.

Build and operate Slate’s hybrid Kubernetes platform across AWS EKS and self-managed clusters. Develop Python and AWS CDK infrastructure, maintain CI/CD and GitOps deployment workflows, support production systems, monitor reliability, participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot incidents, automate recurring work, and document operational processes. Partner with digital, data engineering, manufacturing, and enterprise teams to deliver secure infrastructure, environments, access, and deployment pipelines.

Architect and build Slate’s hybrid AWS and on-premises Kubernetes platform, including infrastructure as code, networking, security, CI/CD, GitOps, observability, reliability practices, and self-service environments. Establish SLOs, on-call processes, incident management, and cost controls while partnering across digital, data, manufacturing, IT, and security teams. Lead through architecture, production code, documentation, and mentoring without direct reports.

Lead Slate’s company-wide cybersecurity program across corporate IT, cloud, applications, vehicle systems, manufacturing OT, enterprise platforms, privacy, compliance, security operations, and supply-chain risk. Set strategy, governance, budgets, and risk priorities; mature audit readiness; build and lead the security team; establish vehicle and OT security programs; oversee identity, incident response, threat intelligence, vendor risk, and secure development; and communicate security posture to executives and the board.

Owns warranty and service parts accounting, including journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, roll-forwards, inventory adjustments, close deliverables, and financial disclosures. Supports audits, forecasting, internal controls, SOX readiness, and cross-functional accounting analysis. The role also improves SAP processes and helps establish scalable accounting controls in a high-growth automotive environment.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer responsible for manual and automated testing across web and mobile platforms. The role develops test strategies, frameworks, test plans, regression suites, and AI-assisted tooling; debugs and tracks defects; and collaborates with engineering, product, design, and support teams to improve software quality.

Lead enterprise software architecture and full-stack development across operations, supply chain, finance, commercial, and digital functions. Design scalable cloud-native platforms, API-first and event-driven integrations, and resilient enterprise systems using AWS and modern engineering practices. Advise on technology strategy, improve software quality and operational excellence, and mentor engineers. Partner with business and technical leaders to deliver supply chain, procurement, CRM, ERP, and e-commerce capabilities at scale.

Supports corporate FP&A and G&A business partners through forecasting, budgeting, headcount planning, KPI reporting, variance analysis, and financial decision support. The role contributes to annual planning, monthly forecast cycles, close support, and improvements to planning tools and processes, including Workday Adaptive Planning. It requires translating financial data into actionable insights and building trusted relationships with department leaders.

Designs and improves the legal department’s operating model, including intake, triage, marketing review, contract management, knowledge management, and e-billing. Leads legal technology selection and implementation, develops playbooks and self-service resources, builds performance dashboards, supports budgeting and strategic planning, and coordinates cross-functional initiatives with Finance, IT, Marketing, executives, vendors, and outside counsel.

Manage the end-to-end pre-signature contracting process for commercial agreements across buy-side and sell-side transactions. Review and redline contracts, coordinate stakeholder input, identify risks, and escalate deviations. Maintain templates, clause libraries, playbooks, contract records, and SharePoint resources. Support CLM tools, workflow improvement, change management, process standardization, and contracting metrics while guiding non-lawyers across Legal, Sales, Procurement, Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, and Service teams.

Lead product development for Sales and Service customer experiences in an EV startup. Define multi-year roadmaps, write product requirements, work with engineering/design, gather customer insights, and drive agile, frugal delivery and GTM strategies for B2C mobile and Salesforce-based solutions.

Leads the technical strategy, architecture, implementation, and delivery of a scalable ecommerce platform for vehicle discovery, configuration, checkout, payments, order management, fulfillment, and ownership experiences. Builds and tests distributed systems, drives code quality and technical decisions, partners with product and UX teams, simplifies complex problems, and mentors engineers while balancing customer impact, business needs, and long-term technology excellence.