About this opportunity
Traba, Inc. lists this Senior Software Engineer (Applied AI) opportunity in northern, Kentucky. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Traba is building the AI operating system for the industrial supply chain - the network of warehouses, manufacturers, logistics providers, and workers behind the physical goods people rely on every day.
We started by tackling labor, supplying industrial businesses with consistent, reliable temporary workforces, and quickly became the fastest growing staffing company in America.
Since then, we've expanded our suite of AI agents to help logistics providers, manufacturers, 3PLs, and other industrial businesses fully automate their manual workflows, derive insights from their data streams, and transform their decision intelligence.
Our mission is to build a world where the global supply chain operates at peak efficiency.
We’re proud to be backed by some of the world’s best investors, including Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.
You'll build Traba's product on top of AI agents —taking frontier models and existing agents and putting them to work across our staffing marketplace to automate the pipeline that sources, vets, matches, and places workers on millions of shifts. (Our AI Agents team builds the agent platform; you apply it everywhere it creates leverage.) This is a product-engineering role first, so you'll go where the priorities are—some quarters that's an agent that automates vetting or matching, others it's a payments flow or platform work. You'll partner with our CTO on architecture and roadmap, and build the platform the rest of the company runs on.
About You:
An applier, not a researcher. You take frontier models and existing agents and wire them into real product across the stack—shipping reliable automation rather than owning the orchestration internals. And you don't need every task to be an AI task: you take the highest-priority problem, model or not.
Voracious learner. You move easily between API design, UX, and deployment infrastructure.
Proven full-stack builder. You have a track record of shipping scalable, performant applications from frontend interfaces to backend distributed systems.
You Will:
Apply existing agents and frontier models across the stack—worker app, business app, ops platform, marketplace to automate vetting, matching, and fulfillment.
Lead frontend and backend development, mentoring other engineers.
Architect and build core systems—real-time matching, autonomous vetting pipelines, distributed systems, and APIs.
Own product surfaces end to end, partnering closely with product and design.
You Have:
5+ years across frontend and backend: TypeScript, React/React Native, and Node.js or Python.
Strong with APIs, distributed systems, PostgreSQL, and messaging (Kafka or RabbitMQ).
Hands-on experience integrating LLMs or agents into real product—prompting, tool wiring, evals. You've shipped AI features, even if you didn't build the platform.
A track record of shipping scalable products in fast, ambiguous, early-stage environments.
Benefits:
Start-up equity
Competitive Salary
100% Paid health, dental & vision coverage
Dinner Provided via DoorDash, free DashPass & stocked kitchen for NY employees
Commuter benefit
Gympass Benefit
Additional: One Medical Membership, Gympass, HSA via Optum, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health
Salary Range Details
The compensation range for this position is set between $200,000 and $240,000, reflecting our market analysis and other relevant considerations. However, exceptions may be made for candidates with qualifications that significantly differ from those outlined in the job description.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Traba is dedicated to promoting Equal Opportunity employment practices. We evaluate all applicants without discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristics that are legally protected by local, state, or federal regulations. We encourage applicants from a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets.
Our Values
Dream Big - We are on a path to change the world for the better. We create and communicate a bold direction that inspires a life-changing vision. We don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results.
Olympian’s Work Ethic - Changing the world never comes easy. We work harder, longer, and smarter, not just two out of three. We put everything we have on the field.
Growth Mindset - We confront the toughest challenges head-on and persevere. Sometimes we fail, but we brush ourselves off, adapt, learn, and push forward with resilience.
Customer Obsession - We go the extra mile for our workers and businesses. We remain focused on delivering high-quality products and services that solve this massive and overlooked industries’ problems
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