Software Engineer

About Garage

Marketplace for America's most essential assets

The role

**About us**Garage powers the exchange of critical assets across America’s essential industries. We started with fire departments, where purchasing mission-critical vehicles and equipment used to take months of paperwork, phone calls, and delays. Our agentic platform automates the entire transaction: discovery, payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing. What once took months now takes minutes.In under a year, we’ve expanded to cities and towns in all 50 states and grown revenue more than 10x. Based in New York, we’ve raised $18M from Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Infinity Ventures, FJ Labs, and other leading investors. We’re moving fast, growing quickly, and just getting started.**About the role**You’ll join a small team working directly with the founders on a platform with real-world impact. We obsess over user experience and ship products end-to-end. You’ll have the opportunity to make a direct, meaningful impact, shaping product strategy and building systems that move essential equipment and vehicles to communities across 50 states.* Build and own core systems across our marketplace and operations stack.* Automate complex workflows spanning payments, logistics, compliance, and financing.* Design APIs, data models, and services that move real assets at scale.* Work closely with product and operations to ship quickly and reliably.**What we’re looking for*** You think in systems, not tickets. * You get excited by operating in a high-performance startup environment.* You would love to be customer-facing.* You play for the front of the jersey, having strong opinions, a willingness to question the status quo, and a drive to become a real expert in whatever space you work in. All while being a great team communicator.**Required*** Strong portfolio or GitHub showcasing full-stack expertise.* Proficiency in React, TypeScript, Node.js, and modern frontend and backend frameworks.* Experience designing and working with scalable databases and APIs.**Nice to have*** Startup experience as a technical co-founder or early engineer at a Series A/B/C startup.* 4+ years of experience.**Our values*** **Growth oriented.** We invest in people who grow as the company grows. We all should be constantly learning.* **Humility.** Everyone has a lot to give and a lot to learn. We believe in creating an environment where the best ideas win and acknowledging when we are wrong.* **Customer focused.** We have a genuine love for our customers. Customer success is our success.* **Hack to success.** We move fast and take big swings. We always aim for a solution that addresses 80% of the problem in 20% of the time. We make informed bets, launch quickly, and iterate.**Why Garage?*** Our product is something people use everyday to buy the equipment local communities everywhere depend on.* We’ve grown revenue over 10x in the last year and are well capitalized with $18M in funding raised total.* We have a talent-dense, high-performing team from Ramp, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, Bilt, Wise, Unify, Honey, PayPal, and more.* You’ll be one of our first 35 employees, operating as a foundational member of the team, partnering alongside the company’s founders.**What we offer*** Competitive salary and stock options* Health, dental and vision insurance (100% covered)* Unlimited paid time off every year (in addition to company observed holidays)* Daily lunch and dinner* $100 monthly wellness stipend* 401(k) with employer match* Pre-tax commuter benefits* Bi-annual team offsite* Relocation assistance

Skills

• Express
• PostgreSQL
• Python
• React
• TypeScript
• Next.js