Staff Software Engineer (Generalist)
Company: Traba
Location: New York City, NY, United States
Salary: $240k - $300k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-05-22
About this role
- We are seeking an experienced & entrepreneurial staff product engineer to join the founding team to lead the development of our core suite of backend services and platform
- You’ll partner with our CTO to help make key architectural decisions, iterate on the roadmap, own product decisions, and architect & build our foundational tech platform to enable scaling over the next several years
- 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 what the company and engineering team will need a year or two from now
- Orchestrate our CI/CD workflows, using Docker & Github, and drive efficiency through automated testing
- Build analytics & monitoring to help understand our user experience & application health
- Drive backend application performance measurement and optimization
- Contribute in a ton of other ways to a scrappy founding team building the future of flexible light industrial staffing!
### Benefits
- Early stage start-up equity
- Competitive salary
- 100% paid health, dental & vision coverage
- Dinner Provided via DoorDash, free DashPass & stocked kitchen for NY employees
- One Medical Membership
- Flexible PTO
- Parental leave
- HSA via Optum
- Commuter benefit
- Mental health benefits: Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health
- Wellhub (Gympass) Membership- 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,...