TrashLab - Sr. Software Backend Engineer

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senior

$75k–$100k

H1B: no

Silver Senior Software Backend Engineer at TrashLab responsible for designing, building, and maintaining backend services for real-time vehicle tracking, route optimization, billing, and dispatch. Own infrastructure reliability, observability, and backend architecture decisions with a focus on scalability and operational software.

Responsibilities

Own the infrastructure that keeps fleets running
Design, build, and maintain backend services for real-time vehicle tracking, route optimization, billing, and dispatch — systems haulers depend on from first route to last invoice.
Build for reliability and scale
Own the reliability and observability of our platform. Set up monitoring, alerting, and on-call practices that give the team confidence to ship fast without breaking things.
Design data systems that handle complexity
Model and evolve our Postgres schema, manage migrations, and build integrations with third-party systems — billing providers, telematics APIs, and customer communications platforms.
Shape backend architecture long-term
Work closely with the founding team to define decisions that will compound over time. You'll have outsized influence on what we build and how.

Qualification

Strong backend fundamentalsInfrastructure experienceOwnership mindsetYou can take an ambiguous problemComfort with operational softwareAI multi-agent expertInterview ProcessSilver Screening interviewTake home challengeClient resume review + take home reviewExperience with billing providers

Required

Strong backend fundamentals
You've built and shipped production Node.js services. You understand API design, database performance, and distributed systems tradeoffs.
Infrastructure experience
You've managed cloud infrastructure — ideally on AWS or GCP — and are comfortable with containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and defining infrastructure as code (Terraform).
Ownership mindset
You can take an ambiguous problem, scope it, and ship a solution without needing everything defined upfront.
Comfort with operational software
AI multi-agent expert
Interview Process
Silver Screening interview
Take home challenge
Client resume review + take home review