over 1 year ago
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services powering 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 improvements.
- Build and harden integrations with carrier networks, fleet systems, and partner APIs.
- Improve transaction and policy infrastructure for accuracy, performance, and resilience as volume and modalities grow.
- Collaborate with frontend, product, design, data, and operations partners to encode real-world workflows and ship user-focused experiences.
- Raise standards for documentation, testing, code quality, and incident response.
- Make pragmatic technical decisions that advance the business while avoiding fragile complexity.
Requirements
- 5+ years of building and shipping backend systems in production, including ownership of services handling real load.
- Strong proficiency in Python and modern backend frameworks.
- Experience designing RESTful APIs and working with relational databases, including PostgreSQL and AWS RDS.
- Solid command of cloud platforms, preferably AWS, managed services, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong scalable system design and performance optimization skills, with attention to production failure modes.
- Product sense and the ability to balance technical quality, delivery speed, and user value.
- High agency, clear written communication, and effective cross-functional collaboration.
- Preferred: experience with Go, TypeScript, AsyncIO, event-driven or integration-heavy systems, distributed systems, risk/security/compliance domains, operational AI or rule-based automation, or startup environments.
Benefits
- San Francisco, hybrid, or remote work arrangements.
- Quarterly broader-team on-sites.
- Opportunity for equity.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance for US employees.
- Early-stage, well-funded startup environment with significant ownership and career growth opportunities.
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About Nash
Nash builds an AI-driven delivery management and logistics orchestration platform that unifies planning and execution across in-house fleets and third-party carriers. It sells B2B software and APIs to retailers, restaurants, pharmacies, and e-commerce platforms to optimize last-mile delivery, returns, and fulfillment. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, it lists customers such as Walmart, Urban Outfitters, and 7-Eleven, and integrates with platforms like Shopify and Toast.