Staff Software Engineer, Traba
$240-300k
+ Equity
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
Be an early applicant
$240-300k
+ Equity
5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower both businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential.
Role
Who you are
- Voracious learner. You love diving into new areas and exploring new languages, databases, and technologies, and can discuss API design one minute and deployment infrastructure pipelines with tech leads the next
- Value clear communication. You recognize the importance of clear communication, documented planning, and transparent, frequent feedback
- Sweat the small stuff. You have strong opinions on design patterns, IDEs, tabs vs. spaces—you understand that how you do one thing is how you do everything, so you care about the details
- Deep experience building full-stack web applications. You have designed and built performant, scalable applications, and have expertise in developing APIs, data modeling, optimizing database queries, and scaling distributed systems
- 7+ years experience with Typescript/Node.js or Python, RabbitMQ or Kafka, and PostgreSQL or equivalent
- A track record of shipping amazing products and leading projects at scale with high velocity
- Expertise designing APIs
- Experience with Docker, Github Actions, and Datadog
- Experience working in an early-stage engineering team, working through ambiguity, and being a self-starter
- A passion for helping people find meaningful work that works for them
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced & entrepreneurial staff product engineer to join the founding team to lead the development of our core suite of backend services and platform
- You'll partner with our CTO to help make key architectural decisions, iterate on the roadmap, own product decisions, and architect & build our foundational tech platform to enable scaling over the next several years
- Architect and lead the development of our core systems—from real-time job matching algorithms to autonomous worker vetting pipelines powered by ML and AI agents
- Own architecture decisions for our tech platform and advise key product & infrastructure decisions, thinking ahead for what the company and engineering team will need a year or two from now
- Orchestrate our CI/CD workflows, using Docker & Github, and drive efficiency through automated testing
- Build analytics & monitoring to help understand our user experience & application health
- Drive backend application performance measurement and optimization
- Contribute in a ton of other ways to a scrappy founding team building the future of flexible light industrial staffing!
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.
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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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