Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

Traba is a technology company that enhances the productivity of the light industrial supply chain. We connect businesses with vetted workers to meet their staffing needs by leveraging location monitoring, predictive algorithms, machine learning, AI, computer vision, and other advanced technologies. Our mission is to empower both businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential.

We are seeking an experienced & entrepreneurial staff 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.
• 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.
• 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.

You Will:

• Architect and lead the development of our applications, APIs, and distributed systems
• Own architecture decisions for our tech platform and advise key product & infrastructure decisions
• 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 many other ways to a scrappy founding team building the future of flexible light industrial staffing

You Have:

• 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

Join us in our mission to empower businesses and workers in the light industrial sector!