Staff Software Engineer, Traba

Applied AI

$240-300k

+ 0.13% – 0.2% equity

TypeScript

Python

Kafka

Node.js

Postgres

RabbitMQ

Senior and Expert level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

5 days a week in office

Marketplace for matching industrial workers with open shifts

Be an early applicant

Marketplace for matching industrial workers with open shifts

201-500 employees

B2BMarketplaceRecruitmentHRAutomation

Be an early applicant

$240-300k

+ 0.13% – 0.2% equity

TypeScript

Python

Kafka

Node.js

Postgres

RabbitMQ

Senior and Expert level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

5 days a week in office

201-500 employees

B2BMarketplaceRecruitmentHRAutomation

Company mission

To empower both businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

An applier who sets the bar. You wire frontier models and existing agents into real product across the stack—and set the standard for how the team does it. You don't need to own the orchestration internals; you make them real in production, and you know which corners are safe to cut at an early stage
Voracious learner. You move easily from API design to deployment infrastructure
Deep full-stack experience. You've designed performant, scalable applications with real expertise in APIs, data modeling, query optimization, and distributed systems
7+ years with TypeScript/Node.js or Python, PostgreSQL, and messaging (Kafka or RabbitMQ)
A track record of shipping and leading projects at scale with high velocity
Experience building or integrating AI/LLM systems in production is a plus—what matters most is the judgment to lead the team into it
Comfort owning ambiguity and direction in an early-stage environment

What the job involves

You'll build Traba's product on top of AI agents—and set the standard for how we do it
You'll put frontier models and existing agents to work across our staffing marketplace to automate the pipeline that sources, vets, matches, and places workers on millions of shifts—and own the core backend services and platform it all runs on. (Our AI Agents team builds the agent platform; you make it real across the stack.) This is a platform-engineering role first, so you'll go where the priorities are: the infrastructure an agent needs one quarter, a matching, data, or scaling problem the next
You'll join the founding team, partner with our CTO on key architectural decisions, iterate on the roadmap, and build the foundational platform that scales over the next several years
Set the standard for how we apply agents across the stack to automate the staffing pipeline—and for how the team builds with AI-assisted tooling
Architect and lead core systems—from real-time matching to autonomous vetting pipelines powered by ML and agents
Own architecture for the platform, thinking ahead to what the company will need a year or two out
Drive backend performance, reliability, and scale

Our take

Traba aims to revolutionize the gig economy within the warehousing and events sector by addressing current shortcomings. While the gig economy has provided flexibility elsewhere, it has struggled in these industries, often leading to disengaged workers and exploitative practices.

Trada distinguishes itself by verifying worker credentials and setting a minimum wage to ensure fair compensation, which helps mitigate issues seen in other short-term staffing solutions. The platform offers benefits like instant pay-outs and automation features for invoicing and reporting, enhancing efficiency for both workers and employers.

With significant funding secured in 2022 and 2023, Treaba is in the midst of expanding it operations across the US, prioritizing states like Texas with robust light industry sectors. Future developments include enhancing the platform with new apps and tools to streamline communication and further improve user experience.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

91% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.6)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Oct 2023

$22m

SERIES B

Jul 2022

$20m

SERIES A

Total funding: $45.6m

Company benefits

Early stage start-up equity
Competitive salary
100% paid health, dental & vision coverage
Dinner Provided via DoorDash, free DashPass & stocked kitchen for NY employees
One Medical Membership
Flexible PTO
Parental leave
Commuter benefit
HSA via Optum
Mental health benefits: Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health
Wellhub (Gympass) Membership

Company HQ

Tribeca, New York, NY

Leadership

Mike Shebat

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Prior to Traba, Mike spent 5 years at Uber as a Founding Team Member of UberEats, then he worked as an International Launch & Expansion Lead before finally moving into the role of Global Product Lead.

Akshay Buddiga

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Akshay previously spent 5 years at Fanatics, joining as a Software Engineer before holding various roles including Senior Engineering Manager.

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