Nash

Senior Backend Engineer

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over 1 year ago

Responsibilities

  • Design and build backend services for decisioning, execution, capacity, job orchestration, carrier selection, real-time tracking, and post-purchase workflows
  • Own complex systems from architecture through deployment, observability, and continuous production performance work
  • Build and harden integrations with carrier networks, fleet systems, and partner APIs
  • Collaborate with frontend, product, design, data, and operations partners to encode real-world workflows
  • Improve transaction and policy infrastructure for accuracy, performance, and resilience
  • Raise standards for documentation, testing, code quality, and incident response
  • Make pragmatic technical decisions that advance the business without creating fragile complexity

Requirements

  • 5+ years building and shipping backend systems in production with ownership of services handling real load
  • Strong proficiency in Python and modern backend frameworks
  • Experience with relational databases including PostgreSQL and AWS RDS
  • Experience with AWS, managed cloud services, and production deployment infrastructure
  • Strong scalable system design and performance optimization skills
  • Experience with Go or TypeScript is a plus
  • Experience with AsyncIO, event-driven architectures, or integration-heavy systems is a bonus
  • Familiarity with risk, security, or compliance-driven domains is a bonus
  • Experience building distributed systems processing large transaction volumes with strict reliability requirements is a bonus
  • Exposure to AI or rule-based automation systems in operational contexts is a bonus
  • Prior startup experience is a bonus but not required

Benefits

  • San Francisco, hybrid, or remote work arrangement
  • Quarterly broader team on-sites
  • Competitive compensation and equity opportunity
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
Nash

About Nash

51-200 employees

Every mile, smarter than the Last Mile. Most logistics operations are planned days in advance. Nash plans continuously, and when the day breaks the plan, Nash finds a better one. Unify decisioning and execution across your fleets, carriers, and fulfillment networks. Set your business objective, and self-optimizing, self-healing AI agents work relentlessly until you hit it. And then beat it.