Senior Backend Software Engineer

FleetWorks
Chicago, Illinois, United StatesFull-time$160,000–$240,000Posted Sep 18, 2026

About the role

Every year, companies spend over a trillion dollars moving freight across the U.S. but the system for matching trucks with jobs is still slow, manual, and fragmented. FleetWorks is fixing that.

We're building products that transform the chaotic freight booking process into a modern, intelligent, agentic marketplace. Our agents replace the endless phone calls, texts, and emails and match truckers who want to get paid with loads that need to be moved.

We have a small, high-agency team working out of our office in SOMA. As an early engineer, you will be a true owner of your work, developing features end to end, interacting directly with our customers, and shaping our culture.

What You'll Do

Own end-to-end feature development, working directly with a high-ownership team including our founders, customers, and other engineers

Make product and technical decisions that will shape the future of FleetWorks

Ship new work every day

Learn from others and teach those around you

What We Look For

Professional experience owning end-to-end feature development on customer-facing products

At least 3 years of professional full-time software development experience

Comfort working in our stack or picking it up quickly, we use TypeScript across the stack

A healthy appreciation for hard problems, we orchestrate thousands of agents and are just getting started!

Empathy for your users and your colleagues

How We'll Get To Know Each Other

Quick call with Megan, our Talent Lead, for you to share your goals and motivations, what you’ve worked on that you’re proud of and to figure out together how that might fit in with what we’re working on at FleetWorks

45-min live-coding interview with an engineer who you'll 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

Transparent offer process that clearly outlines how we came to the compensation package we’re 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

Compensation Range: $160K - $240K

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end feature development
  • Make product and technical decisions
  • Ship new work every day
  • Learn from others and teach those around you

Qualifications

  • Professional experience owning end-to-end feature development
  • At least 3 years of professional full-time software development experience
  • Comfort working in our stack or picking it up quickly
  • A healthy appreciation for hard problems
  • Empathy for your users and your colleagues

Benefits

  • Top tier cash and equity compensation
  • Competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Fully covered lunches and dinners
  • Opportunity to learn quickly and grow fast

Skills mentioned

TypeScriptBackend DevelopmentSystem DesignDistributed SystemsAI AgentsGenerative AIEvent-Driven ArchitectureAPI IntegrationREST APIsGit

About FleetWorks

FleetWorks is a voice-first AI logistics assistant that automates the manual work slows down brokers and carriers. We're funded by insightful investors including First Round Capital, Saga Ventures, and Y Combinator.

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