Staff Software Engineer
About The Position
Traba is building the autonomous future of industrial labor. We are a technology company reinventing how industrial businesses manage labor by developing fully autonomous, orchestrated multi-agent AI workflows to connect businesses with vetted workers to meet their staffing needs. Our mission is to build a world where the global supply chain operates at peak efficiency. We’re proud to be backed by some of the world’s best investors, including Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst. We are seeking an experienced & entrepreneurial staff product engineer to join the founding team to lead the development of our core suite of backend services and platform. You'll partner with our CTO to help make key architectural decisions, iterate on the roadmap, own product decisions, and architect & build our foundational tech platform to enable scaling over the next several years. About You: Voracious learner. You love diving into new areas and exploring new languages, databases, and technologies, and can discuss API design one minute and deployment infrastructure pipelines with tech leads the next. Value clear communication. You recognize the importance of clear communication, documented planning, and transparent, frequent feedback. Sweat the small stuff. You have strong opinions on design patterns, IDEs, tabs vs. spaces—you understand that how you do one thing is how you do everything, so you care about the details. Deep experience building full-stack web applications. You have designed and built performant, scalable applications, and have expertise in developing APIs, data modeling, optimizing database queries, and scaling distributed systems.
Requirements
- 7+ years experience with Typescript/Node.js or Python, RabbitMQ or Kafka, and PostgreSQL or equivalent
- A track record of shipping amazing products and leading projects at scale with high velocity
- Expertise designing APIs
- Experience with Docker, Github Actions, and Datadog
- Experience working in an early-stage engineering team, working through ambiguity, and being a self-starter
- A passion for helping people find meaningful work that works for them
Responsibilities
- Architect and lead the development of our core systems—from real-time job matching algorithms to autonomous worker vetting pipelines powered by ML and AI agents.
- Own architecture decisions for our tech platform and advise key product & infrastructure decisions, thinking ahead for what the company and engineering team will need a year or two from now
- Orchestrate our CI/CD workflows, using Docker & Github, and drive efficiency through automated testing
- Build analytics & monitoring to help understand our user experience & application health
- Drive backend application performance measurement and optimization
- Contribute in a ton of other ways to a scrappy founding team building the future of flexible light industrial staffing!
Benefits
- 📈 Start-up equity
- 💰 Competitive Salary
- 🩺 100% Paid health, dental & vision coverage
- 🍽️ Dinner Provided via DoorDash, free DashPass & stocked kitchen for NY employees
- 🚍 Commuter benefit
- 🏋🏽 Gympass Benefit
- ✚✚ Additional: One Medical Membership, Gympass, HSA via Optum, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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