Senior Backend Software Engineer

FleetWorks

$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-6+ years of software engineering experience with ownership of production-critical systems.
  • Strong expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and REST API design.
  • Hands-on experience with AI-driven systems, including tuning and workflow development.
  • Exceptional communication skills with the ability to navigate real-world constraints.
  • Chicago-based with a willingness to travel 20-30% to customer sites.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical delivery for customer projects from scoping to production rollout.
  • Architect workflows that integrate customer processes and adapt to operational edge cases.
  • Develop core platform components to standardize integration tooling.
  • Navigate complex environments and design practical solutions.
  • Provide customer insight to influence product and engineering roadmaps.
  • Travel periodically to customer locations and work in-person from the Chicago office.

Benefits

  • Above average cash and equity compensation aiming for the 75th percentile.
  • Competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • Fully covered lunches and dinners provided.
  • Opportunities for rapid learning, career growth, and rewards for contributions.
Full Job Description
We9re expanding our engineering team in Chicago, a major hub for our customers and the heart of U.S. freight operations. In this role, you9ll be a full member of our core engineering team, but deployed directly into the environments where our product meets the real world. You9ll build production features, design integrations inside messy customer systems, and shape the internal tooling and platform components that allow us to scale deployments efficiently.

If you9re a strong software engineer who wants to work hands-on with users, solve ambiguous problems on the ground, and see your code driving live operations within days, this is a uniquely high-leverage role.

What You9ll Do:
  • Lead technical delivery for customer implementations, integrations, and workflow builds; owning projects from scoping through production rollout.
  • Architect and build workflows that encode real customer processes, integrating directly with their systems and adapting to operational edge cases you uncover in the field.
  • Develop core platform components and integration tooling that standardize common patterns, reduce one-off work, and help the team scale customer deployments efficiently.
  • Navigate complex environments, fragmented data, and real-world constraints, and design solutions that work in practice, not just on paper.
  • Provide field insight to product and engineering, shaping the roadmap with firsthand customer understanding.
  • Travel 20-30% to customer locations and work in-person from our Chicago office.
What we look for:
  • 3-6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with clear ownership of complex, production-critical systems.
  • Strong command of TypeScript, Node.js, and REST API design, including debugging and integrating with external systems.
  • Hands-on experience with AI-driven systems, including tuning agent behavior, refining prompts, and shaping workflow logic based on customer feedback.
  • Exceptional communication and judgment, especially when balancing speed, reliability, and real-world constraints.
  • Based in Chicago with willingness to travel 20-30% to customer sites.
How we9ll get to know each other
  • Quick call with Megan, our Talent lead, for you to share your goals and motivations, what you9ve worked on that you9re proud of and to figure out together how that might fit in with what we9re working on at FleetWorks
  • 45-min live-coding interview with an engineer who you9ll work with if you join, so that we can get to know how you think about technical challenges
  • Paid onsite work trial so that we can get to know how you work and you can get to know us
  • Well talk with your references to help us understand how to best support your development at work-we might do this after you9ve signed your offer
  • Transparent offer process that clearly outlines how we came to the compensation package we9re offering, including the current and potential value of your equity

What we offer
  • Top tier cash and equity compensation-we aim to be above 75th %ile for companies who have raised a similar amount of cash
  • Competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Fully covered lunches and dinners
  • The opportunity to learn quickly, grow fast, and be rewarded for your contributions

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