Senior Software Engineer

TruckSmarter

$130K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of industry experience leading projects end-to-end.
  • Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping complex systems.
  • Strong curiosity about LLMs and Agentic AI architectures.
  • Experience in fast-paced startup environments, adaptable to various roles.
  • History of mentoring engineers and influencing team practices.
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with product, design, and leadership to enhance the architecture for AI systems.
  • Take ownership of complex feature design and delivery, managing trade-offs effectively.
  • Lead technical discussions and architectural reviews for system robustness and security.
  • Integrate GenAI with traditional ML systems to create intelligent workflows.
  • Establish engineering best practices for testing, deployment, and performance monitoring.
  • Identify and address infrastructure bottlenecks with innovative solutions.
  • Mentor and coach fellow engineers, enhancing the team's technical skills.
  • Keep abreast of emerging AI frameworks, integrating those with potential benefits.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • In-office catered lunch daily and dinner for late work hours.
  • Commuter benefits provided.
  • Flexible paid time off (PTO) policy.
  • 401k retirement plan.
Full Job Description
The Role

We're looking for senior software engineers to help us realize TruckSmarter's vision of eliminating inefficiencies across the freight industry. You'll be at the forefront of building text- and voice-based AI agents that can drive external communication, perform reasoning, execute actions, and continuously self-improve.

As a senior engineer, you'll play a critical role not only in building systems but also in shaping our technical and product strategy. You'll mentor peers, influence architectural decisions, and help us define what best-in-class AI-driven logistics software looks like.

What You'll Do
  • Partner closely with product, design, and leadership to define and evolve the architecture for agentic AI systems that scale across multiple product surfaces.
  • Own the design and delivery of complex features end-to-end, balancing tradeoffs between velocity, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
  • Lead technical discussions and architectural reviews, ensuring our systems remain robust, extensible, and secure.
  • Guide the integration of GenAI agents with traditional ML systems (classification, recommendation, optimization) to create hybrid intelligent workflows.
  • Establish engineering best practices around testing, observability, deployment, and performance monitoring for AI-driven features.
  • Proactively identify product and infrastructure bottlenecks, propose innovative solutions, and drive them to completion.
  • Mentor and coach other engineers, raising the technical bar of the team.
  • Stay ahead of emerging AI frameworks and technologies, evaluating and introducing them when they create real product advantage.


What We're Looking For
  • 5+ years of industry experience, including leading projects end-to-end.
  • Demonstrated ability to design, build, and ship complex, production-grade systems.
  • Extremely curious about LLMs and Agentic AI architectures.
  • Experience in fast-paced, startup environments where you've had to wear multiple hats.
  • A track record of mentoring engineers and shaping team practices.
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (or equivalent practical experience).


Working Model

We work in-person 5 days a week at our downtown San Francisco office. We believe the best products get built when people are in the same room. Fast feedback loops, real collaboration, and a team that genuinely enjoys working together. If that's how you do your best work, you'll fit right in.

We Offer
  • Full health, dental and vision coverage
  • Daily catered lunch provided in-office, plus dinner covered for anyone working past 6:00pm
  • Commuter benefits
  • Flexible PTO
  • 401k
  • Commuter benefits


We'd love for you to join us on this journey and are excited to review your application!

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