TrashLab - Sr. Software Backend Engineer

The role

You will design, build, and maintain backend services for real-time vehicle tracking, route optimization, billing, and dispatch. You will own the infrastructure, reliability, and observability of the platform while modeling Postgres schemas and building third-party integrations.

What you will do

• Own the infrastructure that keeps fleets running
• Design, build, and maintain backend services for real-time vehicle tracking, route optimization, billing, and dispatch
• Own the reliability and observability of the platform
• Set up monitoring, alerting, and on-call practices
• Model and evolve Postgres schema
• Manage migrations
• Build integrations with third-party systems
• Work closely with the founding team to define decisions

Required qualifications

• Built and shipped production Node.js services
• Understand API design, database performance, and distributed systems tradeoffs
• Managed cloud infrastructure ideally on AWS or GCP
• Comfortable with containers (Docker)
• Comfortable with orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Comfortable with CI/CD pipelines
• Comfortable with defining infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Can take an ambiguous problem, scope it, and ship a solution without needing everything defined upfront

Nice to have

• AI multi-agent expert

Before you apply

• Silver Screening interview
• Take home challenge
• Client resume review + take home review
• Client technical interview
• Paid work trial

About the company

Trashlab is the operating system for waste haulers. It unifies dispatch, billing, calls and routes into one platform.