Senior Member of Technical Staff, Pallet
Product Engineering
$175-265k
+ Equity
5 days a week in office
All-in-one transportation & warehouse management
Open for applications
All-in-one transportation & warehouse management
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$175-265k
+ Equity
5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build a new operating system for global logistics.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years with deeper architectural ownership and a focus on system quality and long-term maintainability
- Strong backend and systems engineering fundamentals
- Experience owning core product or infrastructure in a SaaS or platform environment
- Someone who thinks about reliability, performance, and architecture, not just shipping
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving, in-person startup environment
- Excited to be in the office 5 days a week in SF's Financial District or our NYC satellite office
- Bonus: Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL (our interviews are language-agnostic)
What the job involves
- We're hiring Product Engineers to bridge the gap between customers and our AI platform, customize solutions for enterprise clients, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to build our AI product from the ground up
- They'll work directly with Aren (ex-Google), Nilkanth (ex-founder, ex-DoorDash), and Vidhur (lead engineer on Document AI at Scale) to shape the future of logistics AI — from how it's built to how it's deployed in the real world
- Product Engineer at Pallet means something specific: you're not just shipping features, you're shaping what the product becomes
- You'll work closely with customers, understand their real operational pain, and build the solutions that address it. The feedback loop here is tight, and the stakes are real
- Among the first Product Engineers at Pallet, with genuine influence over product direction
- Full ownership from idea to deployment, building for enterprise logistics clients at scale
- Direct access to founders and cross-functional teams from day one
- Meaningful equity in a company targeting a $10B+ outcome
- Build and own core product features that power thousands of AI agents running in parallel to solve real logistics problems
- Act as the connective tissue between engineering and customers, translating real business needs into reliable, scalable software
- Design and implement data pipelines and backend systems built to grow from hundreds to millions of users
- Ship end-to-end features in a SaaS environment where customers see the impact quickly
- Collaborate with the engineering team on architecture, product decisions, and technical direction
- Help define what great product engineering looks like at Pallet as an early team member
- Our tech stack:
- Database: PostgreSQL
- Backend: Node.js + TypeScript, Encore for server-side development and managed DevOps, hosted on GCP
- LLMs: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google (foundation models), Playwright (browser automation)
- Frontend: React + TypeScript, hosted on Vercel
Application process
- We move fast, and we’ll keep you informed at every stage of the process
- Intro Chat with Head of Talent (30 mins)
- Technical Screen + Meet and Greet with an Engineer (60 mins)
- Executive Chat - Nilkanth (Neel) Patel, CTO (30-45 mins)
- Final Interview, visit our office, and deep dive into technical and behavioral interviews (~3.5-4 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 raised substantial funding in 2025, in a round led by General Catalyst, which is being used to grow its team and operations in line with surging demand for its product.
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.
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