Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

At Trunk, our mission is to help teams create high-quality software quickly. Merge conflicts, poor code quality or consistency, flaky tests, and dozens of other distractions quickly drain the productivity and morale of those teams. Engineering teams that can stay focused on designing, implementing, and delivering software will build magical, high-quality projects - and they will be happier doing it. We're building the tools that empower teams to land code faster and develop happier.

We are building the foundation for a modern software engineering team. Our founders started this journey in 2021 and have designed, delivered, and scaled software at some of the world's largest and fastest-growing tech companies - Uber, Google, YouTube, and Microsoft. We're building a game-changing company, and we hope you are excited to be a part of that audacious goal.

Software has eaten the world; almost every company produces software in some form or fashion, so our addressable market is virtually every company on earth. We're going after every engineering team on the planet - we're starting with smaller teams, but there are literally hundreds of thousands of companies out there for us to empower and maybe only a handful (Google, Facebook, Amazon), that are outside our scope. We are building the DevEx platform to empower the world.

In 2022, we raised a $25M Series A led by Initialized Capital (Garry Tan) and a16z (Peter Levine), with investments from Haystack Ventures, Garage VC, Tom Preston Warner (Founder/CEO of GitHub), Geoff Schmidt (Founder/CEO Apollo GraphQL), Nicolas Dessaigne (Founder/CEO Algolia), and Oleg Rognysky (Founder/CEO Peopl.ai).

At Trunk, our mission is to help teams create high-quality software quickly. Merge conflicts, poor code quality or consistency, flaky tests, and dozens of other distractions quickly drain the productivity and morale of those teams. Engineering teams that can stay focused on designing, implementing, and delivering software will build magical, high-quality projects - and they will be happier doing it. We're building the tools that empower teams to land code faster and develop happier.

Our founders started this journey in 2021 and have designed, delivered, and scaled software at some of the largest and fastest-growing tech companies in the world - Uber, Google, YouTube, and Microsoft. We are a San Francisco-based company of 14, looking to hire great people from around the world to grow our team.

We raised a $25M Series A led by Initialized Capital (Garry Tan) and a16z, with investments from Haystack Ventures, Garage VC, Tom Preston Warner (Founder/CEO of GitHub), Geoff Schmidt (Founder/CEO Apollo GraphQL), Nicolas Dessaigne (Founder/CEO Algolia), and Oleg Rognysky (Founder/CEO Peopl.ai).

What you'll do 🧑‍💻

• Have 5+ years of professional experience.
• Know when to dive down the rabbit hole to figure something out and when to pull the plug and work around it.
• See a problem and want to solve it (after maybe complaining about it)
• Are super productive. We’ll have tons of leadership opportunities as we grow, but right now every person at Trunk is coding all day every day and we have a flat structure.
• Believe all code landing on main needs to be tested through unit and integration tests.
• Are opinionated about how quality software should be written, but never drown out the thoughts of others.
• Solve problems on their own but also know when to raise a hand for help.

Our tech stack 💻

• Frontend: Typescript, React, Redux, Next.js
• Backend: Typescript, Node, AWS, CDK, k8s, gRPC
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Kiali, Jaeger
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• CLI/Daemon/LSP: C++20, Bazel
• VSCode Extension: Typescript
• General: GitHub, Slack, Linear, Slite

What we offer 🎁

• Unlimited PTO
• Competitive salary and equity
• Work-life balance
• Flexibility to be fully or partly remote
• Up to $200/month stipend for coworking space for remote folks
• Few meetings, so you can ship fast and focus on building
• One Medical membership on us!
• Top-notch medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance
• All insurance is 100% company-paid ($0 premiums) for employees and highly subsidized for dependents
• FSA, HSA with company contributions, and pre-tax commuter benefits
• 401(k) plan
• Paid parental leave ( up to 12 weeks)

The salary and equity range for this role are: $170K - $210K and .15% - .35%.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Trunk, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, we're happy to help accommodate. Please contact us at [email protected].