Nash
Senior Backend Engineer
San Francisco · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 505 days ago
TypeScriptPythonGoDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentPostgreSQLAWSCloud PlatformsCI/CDRESTLogisticsShopify
About the role
- You will work directly with our VP of Engineering, CTO/ co-founder, alongside a tight, high-ownership engineering team.
- This is a role for someone energized by complexity.
- Logistics has no static optimum: stores close, weather changes, providers exit markets, demand shifts.
Responsibilities
- Design and build the backend services that power Nash's decisioning, execution, and capacity layers, including job orchestration, carrier selection, real-time tracking, and post-purchase workflows.
- Own complex systems from architecture through deployment, observability, and continuous performance work in production.
- Build and harden the integrations that connect Nash to fragmented carrier networks, fleet systems, and partner APIs, treating reliability as a first-class product feature.
- Collaborate with frontend, product, design, and data partners to ship intelligent, user-first experiences, and with operations to encode real-world workflows into how the system runs.
- 5+ years building and shipping backend systems in production, with clear ownership of services that handled real load.
- Deep instincts for scalable system design and performance optimization, with a sharp eye for the failure modes that matter.
- Product sense: the ability to balance technical quality with speed and user value, and to push back when the right thing to build is not the thing on the spec.
- A collaborative communicator who writes clearly and partners well across functions.
- A track record building distributed systems that process large transaction volumes with strict reliability requirements.
- making millions of decisions a day, holding promises through volatility, and continuously re-tuning how the network performs as the real world shifts.
Requirements
- Experience with AsyncIO, event-driven architectures, or integration-heavy systems.
- Prior startup experience (not required).
Nice to have
- Strong proficiency in Python and modern backend frameworks.
- Experience with Go or TypeScript is a plus.
- Solid command of cloud platforms (AWS preferred), managed services (serverless, queues, databases), and CI/CD pipelines.
Compensation
- ✅ Competitive compensation and opportunity for equity
Benefits
- ✅ Competitive compensation and opportunity for equity
- ✅ Flexible paid time off
- ✅ Health, dental, and vision insurance
Company info
- San Francisco / Hybrid / Remote
- Logistics is the substrate beneath every economy that has ever existed, and it remains the least intelligently coordinated activity in the modern world.
- Consumer expectations are converging on instantaneous, perfect, free.
- Networks are not.
- We call this gap the Logistics Singularity, and closing it is the work.
- Nash is the Autonomic Logistics OS.
- We unify decisioning, execution, and capacity into a single programmable system that pursues a business's objectives continuously, adapts as conditions change, and runs the operation at equilibrium across orders, fleets, carriers, providers, and customers.
- The world's largest retailers, grocers, and pharmacies (including Walmart, 7-Eleven, Woolworths, and Coles) run their critical workflows on Nash.
- Founded by Mahmoud Ghulman and Aziz Alghunaim, and backed by Y Combinator, a16z, and other top investors.
- We are based in San Francisco.
- For decades, customers came to where products and services were.
- Nash was founded in 2021 by Mahmoud Ghulman (2x Founder, MIT) and Aziz Alghunaim (2x Founder, 2x YC, Ex-Palantir, MIT) and is backed by Y Combinator, a16z, and other top investors.
- We are headquartered in San Francisco.
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