# Senior Backend Software Engineer

**Company:** [FleetWorks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fleetworks)
**Location:** Chicago, IL, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Node.js, REST APIs, API Design, AI Agents, Prompt Engineering, Workflow Automation, System Integration, Debugging, Platform Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-08-12

> Build production backend features, customer integrations, and AI-driven workflows for a freight marketplace. The role requires 3–6+ years of software engineering experience, strong TypeScript and Node.js expertise, customer-facing judgment, and willingness to work onsite in Chicago and travel 20–30%.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead technical delivery for customer implementations, integrations, and workflow builds from scoping through production rollout.
- Architect and build workflows that encode customer processes, integrate with external systems, and adapt to operational edge cases.
- Develop core platform components and integration tooling to standardize common patterns, reduce one-off work, and scale customer deployments.
- Navigate complex environments, fragmented data, and real-world constraints to design practical solutions.
- Provide field insight to product and engineering teams and help shape the roadmap through firsthand customer understanding.
- Travel 20–30% to customer locations and work in person from the Chicago office.

## Requirements
- 3–6+ years of professional software engineering experience owning complex, production-critical systems.
- Strong command of TypeScript, Node.js, and REST API design.
- Experience 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 when balancing speed, reliability, and real-world constraints.
- Based in Chicago and willing to travel 20–30% to customer sites.

## Interview Process
- Introductory call with the Talent lead.
- 45-minute live-coding interview.
- Paid onsite work trial.
- Reference conversations.
- Transparent offer process outlining compensation and equity value.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Top-tier cash and equity compensation, targeted above the 75th percentile for companies that have raised a similar amount of capital.
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Fully covered lunches and dinners.
- Opportunities for rapid learning, growth, and recognition for contributions.

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