Senior Software Engineer, Distru
$120-160k
Seed to sale software for cannabis brands
Be an early applicant
Seed to sale software for cannabis brands
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$120-160k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To be the comprehensive platform for managing inventory, sales, and compliance in the cannabis industry.
Role
Who you are
- Comfort in modern tech stacks — we use React, TypeScript, Apollo, GraphQL, Elixir/Phoenix, and Postgres, but we believe great engineers can learn anything
- Hands-on experience building with AI coding tools — and a point of view on where they help, where they don't, and how to keep quality high
- Worked at early-stage startups
- Fully owned and delivered features end-to-end, with quality and predictability
- Write high-quality code with effective test coverage
- Express complex, involved logic through clean, easy-to-understand code
- Strong SQL/Postgres background — important for an ERP with deep data relationships
- Define timelines and proactively communicate progress with the team and stakeholders
- Raise concerns early about risky changes — data integrity, compliance, irreversible operations
- Clear, concise verbal and written communication
- Bonus: built complex SaaS products (logistics, supply chain, accounting, etc.)
- Bonus: experience in cannabis
- Bonus: worked remotely, ideally on a distributed team
What the job involves
- We're an intrinsically motivated team that works without ego, is constantly learning, and solves real problems for the cannabis industry
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll shape and deliver impactful workflows across the product, working alongside our customers to take ownership of features that have them writing you personal "thank you" emails
- Distru is at an inflection point. We have deep market penetration in cannabis ERP, a new commerce layer (Distru Commerce) live and growing, and a roadmap with a growing AI component
- You'll help build features across all areas of the product, including how and where AI fits into real user workflows
- This is a high-ownership role at a company that ships daily and cares about getting it right
- You'll work closely with engineering, product, design, customer support and our C-suite to set the bar for what great looks like inside Distru, and help us build the operating system for an entire industry
- Own the planning, design, implementation, and testing of mission-critical full-stack features
- Gain deep understanding of the cannabis industry, its supply chain, and our customers' nuanced workflows
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and customer support to shape and deliver projects end-to-end
- Proactively communicate status updates to the rest of the organization
- Balance speed and quality — leaning on AI tooling to move faster while keeping a high bar for what actually ships
- Features you might work on:
- AI-native features — design how AI agents fit into real customer workflows: things like AI-assisted order and purchase intake, smart product matching, and systems that learn from user feedback over time
- Distru Commerce — build out our growing commerce layer: storefronts, ordering, and the workflows that connect buyers and sellers across the supply chain
- Manufacturing — extend production, assembly, and inventory functionality so operators can track product from raw inputs to finished goods
- Distribution — sharpen the order, fulfillment, and logistics workflows that move product between businesses
- Cultivation — improve the tools growers use day-to-day, including our mobile flows for work happening on the floor and in the field
- Compliance — keep customers audit-ready with reporting, traceability, and integrations with state systems (e.g. Metrc) that the cannabis industry runs on
- Engineering Team & Process:
- 1 team with 7 senior engineers
- Half of the engineers are US-based, the other half are based in Europe
- Projects are run by 1-3 engineers depending on project size
- Engineers work closely with product managers and designers during the feature spec phase
- Engineers write a high-level technical spec for mid-to-large projects and get feedback from peers
- Engineers freely organize, plan, and execute the implementation phase
- Most of our code is now written with AI tools. We expect engineers to direct them well — specify clearly, review critically, and own the result
- Engineers continuously improve our AI harnesses — prompts, context, rules, and tooling — to get better, more reliable output over time
- Engineers write thorough automated tests in the backend and perform manual QA in the frontend
- Engineers open small, frequent Pull Requests and provide valuable, non-nit-picky code reviews
- Daily deployments with CI/CD
- ~10% of your time will be spent on meetings, ~90% will be uninterrupted focus time
- No on-call team. The system is very stable, and issues are fixed during regular work hours
Application process
- Intro call — a non-technical conversation to get to know each other, walk through your background, and make sure there's a mutual fit
- Technical call — a deeper technical conversation with our Director of Engineering
- Take-home assignment — a practical exercise you complete on your own time
- Final call — a conversation with our CTO to align on vision, ways of working, and any remaining questions on both sides
Our take
The legitimisation of the cannabis industry has opened up new potential for software developers looking to aid the product’s distribution and sales teams. Distru styles itself as a “seed-to-sales” software for cannabis brands, supplying a comprehensive platform with capabilities from procurement to CRM to a speed harvesting app.
Distru’s offering encompasses an ERP, manufacturing, sales and reporting and cannabis-specific features. By centralising an often disorganised set of tools, this helps cannabis operators manage inventory, orders and customer relationships from one place. And the platform stands out because it is built specifically for this rapidly growing industry.
With $1 billion in transactions annually, the company has positioned itself as a vital resource in the US. It has also raised considerable funding that will fuel expansion to 11 new states. New products are also on the horizon, indicating a promising future for a company that's capitalising on a glaring gap in the cannabis industry.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2024
$6m
SERIES A
Jun 2019
$3m
SEED
Total funding: $9m
Company benefits
- Fully remote work environment (we have teammates in 4 continents!)
- Varied and competitive medical, dental and vision plan options for the employee and their dependents
- 18 days Paid Time Off + 11 holidays (sick days do not count toward these)
Company HQ
Produce and Waterfront, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Blaine Hatab
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Senior Software Engineer at ShakaCode, Founder at High Simple, Founder at Open Minded Innovations and Music Festival Nation.
Johnny Ji
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Web Developer Instructor at RED Academy, Software Engineer at Eight Solutions Inc and Paysavvy.
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