Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Pallet
Platform
$195-265k
+ Equity
More information about location
3-4 days a week in office (Financial District, SF)
All-in-one transportation & warehouse management
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All-in-one transportation & warehouse management
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$195-265k
+ Equity
More information about location
3-4 days a week in office (Financial District, SF)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build a new operating system for global logistics.
Role
Who you are
- Backend-leaning engineer with 0→1 platform experience and scaling know-how
- Comfortable with enterprise data and growing user bases (100s → 1000s)
- Skilled in APIs, data pipelines, and both new + legacy infrastructure
- Thrives in fast-paced startup environments
- Excited to collaborate in person 3–4x/week in SF’s Financial District (flexible)
- Bonus: Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL (language-agnostic interviews)
- You own the outcome: taking full responsibility to deliver impact end to end, no excuses
- You move fast but with quality: shipping quickly while maintaining sustainable craftsmanship
- You experiment relentlessly: embrace a growth mindset, learn from failures, and iterate faster
- You push beyond limits: no coasting; you raise the bar for yourself and the team
- You thrive in collaboration: value face-to-face teamwork and contribute actively in our in-office culture
What the job involves
- We're hiring Platform Engineers for our founding team. These engineers will create the infrastructure and backbone for our AI agents, build efficient data pipelines, and develop scalable systems that can grow our platform from a few hundred to millions of users
- They'll work directly with Aren (ex-Google), Nilkanth (ex-founder, ex-DoorDash), and Vidhur (lead engineer on Document AI at Scale)
- One of the first Platform Engineers at Pallet
- Building foundational systems and infrastructure to support AI model development
- Opportunity to shape a brand new product in an industry worth trillions of dollars
- Surround yourself with top-tier talent and fast-track your career
- Build and maintain the core infrastructure for our AI agent platform
- Design and implement efficient, scalable data pipelines
- Develop backend systems that can scale from hundreds to millions of users
- Collaborate closely with the engineering team on technical architecture and system design
- Work directly with OpenAI frameworks to power our AI capabilities
- Help shape foundational engineering practices and decisions as an early team member
- Manage end-to-end large scale AI infrastructure projects
- Our tech stack:
- Database: PostgreSQL
- Backend: Node + TS. Encore for robust server-side dev and managed DevOps. Hosted on GCP
- LLMs: Open AI, Anthropic, Google for foundation models, Browserbase for browser automation
- Frontend: React + TS. Hosted on Vercel
Application process
- Intro Chat with Head of Talent (30 mins)
- Technical Screen + Meet and Greet with Hiring Manager (60 mins)
- Executive Chat - Sushanth, CEO and Founder (30-45 mins)
- Final Interview, visit our Fidi office, and deep dive into technical and behavioral interviews (~3.5 hours)
Our take
Bringing the power of AI to logistics, Pallet supplies an all-in-one platform that combines transportation and warehouse management. This union of TMS (transportation management system) and WMS (warehouse management system) software in one place makes for a valuable asset for organisations that are seeking to supercharge efficiency.
By collecting everything in one place, Pallet ensures that it stands out from less broad offerings - delivering order entry, dispatch, warehousing, billing, customer communication and more. Clients are able to put all their teams on one platform, and automate many of their most time-consuming tasks with the help of AI.
With a long list of customers including teams at SpaceX, Google and Apple, it is clear that Pallet has made a space for itself in the market. The company has raised substantial funding towards growing its team, expanding operations and investing in new enterprise product capabilities.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2025
$27m
SERIES B
Oct 2024
$18m
SERIES A
Total funding: $48m
Company benefits
- 🩺 Health, Vision and Dental benefits
- 🏝️ Flexible PTO
- ➕ Life Insurance and Accidental Insurance
- ❤️🩹 Short-Term Disability Coverage
- 💸 Equity for all staff
- 🪜 401k option; helping you save for the future
- 📚 Yearly learning and development stipend
- 🚌 Commuter benefits if you live in SF
- 🚘 Fully covered uber ride home if you ever have to work late in the office
- 🏡 Remote office home stipend
- 🥤 Monthly happy hours; our last one was a Golden Gate Park BBQ
- 🍲 Company paid dinners on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the office
- 🎉 Annual Company Offsites; our last one was in Sonoma Wine Country 🍷
Company HQ
Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sushanth Raman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to founding the company, they were an Engineer at Retool and Product Manager at Google.
Andrew Spencer
(Co-Founder)Previously a Software Engineer at Retool, Product Manager at Toast and worked in Data Analytics and Product Management at Parallel Wireless.
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