Software Engineer (Mid-level and Senior)
The trucking industry is the backbone of the global economy. Roughly 70% of what we consume in the U.S. is moved by trucks. Those trucks are powered by over 3.5 million drivers per year and create over $700B in annual revenue. Trucking is a massive industry but it is a traditional industry and like many traditional industries, it is ripe for innovation.
CloudTrucks is a modern carrier that offers hardworking drivers the opportunity to unlock their independence and uncap their earning potential. Our technology makes it easy to build a profitable trucking business, offering drivers access to cashflow and operational support.
Being an all-in-one platform, our product development teams tackle a broad range of complex challenges ranging from logistics route optimizations, to IOT and SaaS integrations, to AI automations, to building fintech products to power a trucking business.
As a software engineer, you will leverage your skills and expertise to make key technical decisions and deliver products that meaningfully impact and empower the truck drivers on our platform, as well as our internal-facing teams.
Examples of projects that you may work on
AI Document Processing: Build a document processing service that is able to ingest unstructured and heterogenous data from many disparate sources (e.g. PDFs, scanned images, etc) and extract structured data and insights. Leverage this capability to automate business critical workflows and remove human intervention.
AI Support and Operations: Build AI agents capable of fielding, responding, and resolving support inquiries as well as automating operational tasks. For customer facing interactions, AI agents must support multi-modal communication: can converse with drivers on phone, text over SMS or in-app chat, or respond to emails.
Driver Qualification Engine: Leverage LLMs to analyze background checks and driver history, enabling instant, data-driven onboarding decisions.
Driver Dispatch: Improve our scheduling and route optimization algorithms so drivers receive the jobs that maximizes their take home while respecting their personal preferences.
Embedded Fintech: Build a financial ledger system to track and manage all cash movement, inflows, and outflows across the CloudTrucks platform. Use this system to move millions of dollars each month and launch a variety of financial products aimed at helping truckers operate their business.
Rewards Program: Build a tiered rewards program that rewards top drivers for staying active, driving safe, and making on-time deliveries every month.
Responsibilities
Design, test, ship, and maintain solutions to problems and products.
Take complete ownership over projects and features. Work across a range of systems and technologies to deliver end-to-end solutions.
Partner with cross functional teams to ensure a complete and delightful customer experience.
Help set and improve our engineering processes, standards, and tooling.
What we are looking for
Strong technical background, including 4+ years of industry experience as a software engineer working on production systems.
Self-motivated and comfortable operating in a dynamic environment with a strong sense of ownership.
Takes a user-focused approach, shipping incrementally with rapid iterations.
Strong communication and collaboration skills. As a small engineering team, we work closely with each other and other cross functional teams across the company.
Experience with web technologies and system design.
Experience leveraging AI tools to accelerate software development speed while maintaining high code quality (copilot, cursor, claude, etc.)
Experience and enthusiasm for applying LLMs to solve business use cases.
Nice to haves
Full-stack experience.
Experience with our technical stack: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Javascript, Typescript, React, Google Cloud
Production experience developing AI orchestration systems or Agentic AI.
A bit about our culture
We value high autonomy, ownership, and delivering results - in short - whatever it takes to set our customers up for success. We encourage each other to push the envelope, execute quickly, and be resilient to failure. We also work occasional late nights or weekends to deliver an above-and-beyond customer experience, while respecting and celebrating each other's personal background, values and commitments. In return, we are well compensated, take pride in seeing outsized impact to our product, and have memorable experiences learning and growing alongside a truly exceptional set of peers.
*This role requires 4 days in office in San Francisco. Our work from home day is Friday.
About CloudTrucks
CloudTrucks is a virtual trucking carrier in the multi-billion dollar trucking space. Core to this industry are over 3.5M truck drivers. They move more than 70% of all goods transported around the U.S., yet operate in a highly fragmented industry with huge opportunities for products, services and automation. We strive to deliver solutions that help truck drivers operate with much greater efficiency, increase their revenue, and offload business complexity. We are looking for uniquely exceptional people to join us on our journey as we massively scale into an industry-defining business.
We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.