Senior Backend Engineer

The role

You will design and build backend services for the Autonomic Logistics OS. This includes job orchestration, carrier selection, and real-time tracking systems.

What you will do

• Design and build backend services for decisioning, execution, and capacity layers
• Own complex systems from architecture through deployment and observability
• Build and harden integrations with carrier networks, fleet systems, and partner APIs
• Collaborate with frontend, product, design, data, and operations partners
• Improve transaction and policy infrastructure for accuracy and performance
• Raise the bar on documentation, testing, code quality, and incident response
• Make pragmatic technical bets to move the business forward

Required qualifications

• 5+ years building and shipping backend systems in production
• Strong proficiency in Python and modern backend frameworks
• Fluency designing RESTful APIs
• Working with relational databases (PostgreSQL, AWS RDS)
• Solid command of cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
• Experience with managed services (serverless, queues, databases) and CI/CD pipelines
• Deep instincts for scalable system design and performance optimization
• Product sense to balance technical quality with speed and user value
• High agency in a fast-paced environment
• Collaborative communicator who writes clearly

Nice to have

• Experience with Go or TypeScript
• Experience with AsyncIO, event-driven architectures, or integration-heavy systems
• Familiarity with risk, security, or compliance-driven domains
• Track record building distributed systems that process large transaction volumes
• Exposure to AI or rule-based automation systems
• Prior startup experience

Benefits

• Early-stage, well-funded startup
• Quarterly broader team on-sites
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for equity
• Flexible paid time off
• Health, dental, and vision insurance for US employees

About the company

Nash is the Autonomic Logistics OS that unifies decisioning, execution, and capacity into a single programmable system. Founded by Mahmoud Ghulman and Aziz Alghunaim, it is backed by Y Combinator and a16z.