Senior Software Engineer, HONK
Fullstack
$160-185k
3-5 days a week in office
Tow & roadside assistance app
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Tow & roadside assistance app
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-185k
3-5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To transform the towing and roadside experience for motorists, service providers, insurance companies, and other making roadside assistance a major part of their customer retention strategy.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience building and shipping scalable web applications and distributed systems, ideally with experience preparing platforms for significant (3-5x) scale
- Deep expertise in Ruby on Rails and Java (our core backend languages)
- Strong frontend engineering experience with modern JavaScript frameworks, particularly React and TypeScript
- Demonstrated experience with AWS cloud infrastructure
- Domain expertise in logistics, routing, mapping, or dispatch systems (familiarity with route optimization is a significant plus)
- A proven track record of establishing automated testing frameworks and CI/CD quality gates from scratch, rather than simply participating in an existing testing culture
- Strong systems context awareness, demonstrating the ability to consider downstream effects across adjacent systems to avoid cascading failures
- Experience contributing to operational excellence, including establishing observability metrics, monitoring, and proactive debugging of performance issues
- Strong communication skills with the ability to facilitate discussions, clearly communicate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders, and align teams on technical direction
- Curiosity about emerging technologies and experience leveraging AI tools and workflows to improve development velocity
What the job involves
- HONK is seeking a Senior Software Engineer- Fullstack to help architect, build, and scale our core platform and customer-facing products
- This role works closely with the CTO and engineering team to develop high-performance applications across the stack, including frontend experiences, backend services, APIs, and cloud infrastructure
- This is a hands-on role ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems, shipping quickly, and contributing to product and technical direction in a collaborative startup environment
- This position reports directly to the CTO and is expected to work from our Chicago office 3-5 days per week
- Design, build, and maintain scalable full-stack applications and services
- Develop responsive frontend applications using React and TypeScript
- Build and enhance backend systems using Ruby on Rails and Java
- Architect APIs, real-time systems, and high-throughput microservices, with a heavy focus on optimizing our core dispatch and logistics engine
- Define testing and review practices, introducing automated frameworks into our release process to improve reliability
- Improve platform scalability and reliability by anticipating scaling limits, raising reliability risks early, and improving system observability
- Take ownership of a technical area and its downstream impacts, ensuring decisions align with product goals and do not negatively affect dependent systems or the business
- Collaborate with Product, UX, and Engineering teams to ship customer-facing features
- Support AI-enabled initiatives and automation efforts across internal tools and workflows
- Mentor engineers, provide architectural guidance, and help drive engineering excellence across the team
Our take
HONK Technologies is an industry-leading digital roadside assistance and vehicle transport platform with a digital-first approach.
Providing support to leading insurers, fleets, manufacturers, and retailers by enabling them to deliver roadside experiences and effectively meet the rising need for same-day vehicle transport. Through its digital-first approach, HONK optimizes critical aspects like logistics and fleet maintenance management, enabling businesses to enhance their overall efficiency and productivity significantly.
In recent years, HONK has experienced remarkable growth with the introduction of two new services, one of which emerged as the company's fastest-growing segment. This success was further amplified by securing four major customers through lucrative multi-million dollar deals, which now account for almost one-third of HONK's total revenues. The company is actively engaged in the expansion of its new services, primarily targeting collaboration with the largest auto insurers in the US, while also seeking strategic partnerships.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2018
$18m
SERIES B
Mar 2015
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $31.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Cycle to work incentives
- Generous PTO
Company HQ
Sawtelle, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Corey Brundage
(Founder & Advisor)Founded www.SendLove.to, KorMethod and betterSHIFT. Advisor for several companies including Healthy Surprise and Earbits before founding HONK in 2014.
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