Senior Backend Engineer, Nash
Offers the opportunity for equity
Last-mile delivery platform
Open for applications
Last-mile delivery platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
Offers the opportunity for equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To democratize local delivery for business across all industries and sizes.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience building and shipping scalable backend systems
- Strong Proficiency in Python and backend frameworks
- Experience designing and working with RESTful APIs and databases (PostgreSQL, AWS RDS)
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and deployment best practices, including managed services (serverless, databases, queues) and CI/CD pipelines
- Deep knowledge of scalable system design and performance optimization
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment
- Startup experience is a plus, but not required
- Strong preference for Bay Area - Nash operates a hybrid first product team with an office in San Francisco
- Bonus: Experience with AsyncIO, event-driven architectures, or integration-heavy systems
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing and building Nash’s backend systems, services, and APIs
- You’ll work closely with the CTO, co-founder, and engineering and product team to scale our platform, optimize performance, and develop robust, scalable infrastructure that powers seamless logistics operations
- This is a great opportunity to join Nash at an exciting time as we build products across the logistics value chain for enterprises, marketplaces, and SMBs
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services and APIs
- Architect and implement efficient data structures and models
- Optimize and improve system performance, scalability, and security
- Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve backend issues in production environments
- Collaborate closely with frontend engineers to build seamless API integrations
- Ensure system reliability by implementing observability, monitoring, and logging best practices
- Work independently and collaboratively to solve complex technical challenges
- Advocate for best practices in documentation, testing, and maintainability
Our take
Nash makes it easier for businesses to manage same day delivery by aggregating available providers such as Lyft, Uber, and DoorDash on one interface. This leaves the business free to select (or automate) the best option based on cost and availability. The startup works across a growing number of verticals, from food delivery, to retail, pharmaceuticals or auto parts.
With a growing consumer demand for fast, hyperlocal delivery, small to medium sized businesses often struggle to keep up with the logistics and costs. This has led to the emergence of more and more last mile delivery startups. However, managing the huge variety of delivery options coming onto the market cost-effectively is often overwhelming and time consuming.
Nash’s strategy of positioning itself between merchants and delivery companies is a clever one so long as it can continue to build partnerships with both national and local delivery providers. So far this strategy has paid off, and the company has experienced rapid growth since its 2021 founding. It already covers all of the USA, and is eyeing up expansion in Canada and the UK in the near future.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Jan 2022
$9m
SEED
Total funding: $29.2m
Company HQ
The Castro, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mahmoud Ghulman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former MIT Researcher, former Head of Business Development at enterprise AI tech company Mozn. Co-founded and was CEO of gig worker marketplace startup Arsann from 2016 to 2019, and is now a board member.
Aziz Alghunaim
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Engineer at NYSE listed data software company Palantir Technologies. Is the Co-founder of Tarjimly, a tech nonprofit that connects bilinguals to volunteer as translators for refugees and humanitarian organizations.
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