Staff Software Engineer

Overview

Traba is building the autonomous future of industrial staffing. We are a technology company reinventing how industrial businesses manage labor by developing fully autonomous, orchestrated multi‑agent AI workflows that connect businesses with vetted workers to meet their staffing needs. Our mission is to build a world where the global supply chain operates at peak efficiency. We’re backed by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.

About You

• Voracious learner. You love diving into new areas, exploring new languages, databases, and technologies, and can discuss API design one minute and deployment infrastructure pipelines 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 the next 1‑2 years.
• Orchestrate our CI/CD workflows using Docker & GitHub, and drive efficiency through automated testing.
• Build analytics & monitoring to help understand user experience & application health.
• Drive backend application performance measurement and optimization.
• Contribute in many other ways to a scrappy founding team building the future of flexible light‑industrial staffing.

Requirements

• 7+ years experience with Typescript/Node.js or Python, RabbitMQ or Kafka, and PostgreSQL (or equivalent).
• Proven track record of shipping 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, thriving in ambiguity, and being a self‑starter.
• Passion for helping people find meaningful work.

Benefits

• 📈 Start‑up equity
• 💰 Competitive Salary
• 🩺 100 % paid health, dental & vision coverage
• 🍽️ Dinner provided via DoorDash, free DashPass & stocked kitchen for NY employees
• 🚍 Commuter benefit
• 🏋🏽 Gympass benefit
• ✚✚ Additional: One Medical Membership, Gympass, HSA via Optum, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health