Founding Engineer - Last Mile

Relay is a warehouse-to-doorstep delivery network purpose built to scale and adapt to the demands of e-commerce. We help the most important e-commerce retailers in the UK (and one day, the world) to deliver faster, more affordably, and with a smaller carbon footprint than existing solutions.

Our success depends on our ability to build and deploy sophisticated software. Our technology lets us flex the capacity of our logistics network to handle sudden torrents of demand from flash sales and holiday peaks, give end consumers total control over the date and location of their deliveries, and unlock the next generation of marketplaces and peer-to-peer commerce.

We’re looking for a founding engineer to join our team with a focus on our “last mile” – the most operationally complex and critical step in the journey from warehouse to doorstep. In this role, you can expect to…

• Work across the full stack of technology, from mobile all the way down through data infrastructure.

• Take end-to-end ownership over thorny real-world problems, like using machine vision to automatically assess proof of delivery photos.

• Collaborate with team members across the company.

• Regularly spend time in the field learning how the technology you build impacts our couriers and parcel recipients.

  
  

You might be a great fit for this role if…

• You have prior experience with mobile engineering, but don’t just think of yourself as a “mobile engineer.”

• There is truly no job in engineering you would not be excited to take on – and some outside of engineering as well. From fiddling with frontend code to standing up new API endpoints, you want to do it all. We don’t expect you to have done all (or even many) of these jobs before, but we do hope you’ll be curious to learn how to do them.

• You have high agency and take pride of ownership in your work. You naturally take initiative, seeking out the best opportunities for impact.

• You have deep empathy for the humans for whom you build technology, including customers, partners, and your fellow colleagues. You seek out the chance to hear directly from them and go out of your way to incorporate their feedback into your work.

• You are eager to learn new technologies and take on new problem domains.

• You value and practise clear communication, active listening, and intentional collaboration.

  
  

We are looking for candidates who…

• Have worked on high-performing teams building software for at least four years.

• Have broad experience across a variety of technology stacks.

Experience as a startup founder or in early stage teams is a strong plus, but not required.