Software Engineer

Conduit•San Francisco, CA

5h•Hybrid

About The Position

Conduit is building the operating system for shipping and receiving, systemizing the planning and execution of work on loading docks and in yards. Their software orchestrates tasks across docks, gates, and yards with connected workflows and a unified data layer, bridging the gap between WMS/TMS and the physical dock. This delivers real-time visibility, accountability, and automation to increase throughput and reduce loss. The platform generates clean, structured data essential for AI, which is unique to Conduit. They are building full-stack AI for warehouses underserved by legacy systems. Conduit recently secured a $6M Seed round, boasts near-zero churn, and achieved 172% net revenue retention this year. The team comprises experts from Flexport, Motive, Flexe, and Convoy, and is rapidly growing to transform a critical, underinvested segment of the supply chain. The role is for the third software engineer, a critical hire offering broad ownership and a fast-paced environment with minimal bureaucracy. This position is distinct due to its AI-first approach, emphasizing rapid prototyping, AI-driven operational data analysis, and accelerated customer discovery. The engineer is expected to push the limits of individual output, utilizing all necessary tools. Weekly activities may range from customer calls with warehouse managers, to whiteboarding architecture with the CTO, to proposing and shipping end-to-end features, and visiting 3PL sites to observe code in production. The role requires covering extensive ground, maintaining organization, and being ambitious about output, working directly with the CEO, CTO, Head of Product, and founding engineer.

Requirements

You're product-minded. You care about whether the thing works for the user, not just whether it ships. You've designed UI yourself when speed mattered. You've pushed back on product decisions when you thought they were wrong.
You're a clear communicator. Whether it's a design doc, a PR description, a customer-facing release note, or a Slack message, your thinking is organized and your writing is strong.
You're not afraid of hard work in any direction. Customer calls in the morning. A big migration after lunch. A prototype by the end of day. None of it is beneath you.
You push through walls. When something is stuck you don't wait for someone else to fix it.
You're ambitious about your own output. You want to ship more things with more impact than people think one engineer can. The tools exist to make that possible now, and you're excited about that.
You're an AI power user (or want to be). You are already in Claude Code, Codex, or similar tools. You are constantly exploring how AI can help you prototype, analyze data, and move at a speed that surprises people. You believe the best engineers in the future will spend their time in fundamentally different ways from the best engineers of the last decade, and you want to be at the front of the pack.
You're a team player. You make the people around you better. You don't optimize for your own visibility.
5+ years or equivalent shipping production software, with meaningful time at an early-stage startup
You've built customer-facing software end-to-end
You've worked in environments where you had to figure out the process, not follow one

Nice To Haves

You've been a founder, even if it didn't work out
You've built or shaped AI-powered product features, as well as built the foundation to capture and structure the data that can enable them.
Experience in workflow technology and/or software for the physical world

Responsibilities

Ship features end-to-end. Backend, frontend, the API layer, the rough edges. You'll own features from initial customer insight through launch and adoption.
Build the AI layer. Our system of record is the data foundation. The AI workflows on top are the next frontier. You'll build agents and features on top of structured operational data that doesn't exist anywhere else.
Talk to customers directly. You’ll sit in on strategic discovery calls, complicated onboardings, and brainstorm sessions, plus the occasional visit to a loading dock. You'll develop an independent point of view on what operators actually need, and your code will reflect that understanding.
Make product decisions without layers of approval. You'll have real judgment calls to make every week, and we trust you to make them. If you wait for a PRD before writing code, this isn't the job.
Shape the technical foundation. Architecture, tooling, deployment, how we scale the team. Our stack is Python, Django, Svelte, and Postgres. You'll have a major voice in future technology choices.
Help set the culture. You're one of the first software engineers. How this team works in two years is largely what you make it now.