Backend Developer
About the team
We're an 18-person team and engineering is the core of what we do. You'd join a 6-person eng team building the infrastructure that powers real-time dispatch operations for fleets across North America.
What you'll do
Build and maintain the core dispatch API — load management, driver assignments, broker integrations, and real-time status pipelines
Own backend services that power Relay and Lens — the two AI agents handling broker calls, rate negotiation, and fleet monitoring
Design and scale data pipelines that process thousands of dispatch events, document verifications, and load updates per day
Integrate with external systems — DAT, TruckStop, QuickBooks, Twilio, and fleet telematics providers
Work closely with AI/ML engineers to serve model outputs reliably and fast into the dispatcher-facing UI
Who you are
4–7 years of backend engineering experience, primarily with Python or Node.js in a production environment
Strong fundamentals in API design, distributed systems, and database architecture — you've built things that scale and stayed up under load
Experience working with real-time data systems — websockets, event queues, or streaming pipelines
Comfortable owning services end-to-end — design, build, deploy, monitor, and iterate without a handoff culture
Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, and cloud infrastructure — AWS or GCP preferred
Pay & Benefits
$130,000 – $170,000 USD salary
1%–2% equity, 4-year vest with 1-year cliff
Full health, dental, and vision — 100% of premiums covered
$2,000/year learning budget and $1,500 home office allowance
Twice-yearly team offsites and flexible hours
The interview proces
Step 1: Application review — we respond to every applicant within 48 hours.
Step 2: Intro call — 30 minutes — chat with our engineering lead about your background, what you've built, and how you work.
Technical interview — 60 minutes — a systems design conversation based on a real problem from our dispatch infrastructure.
Step 4: Paid take-home task — 3–4 hours, $150 — a focused backend problem pulled from something we actually built. We share the context upfront and pay regardless of outcome
Step 5: Final conversation + offer — meet one more team member, talk comp and stack, and if it's a yes you'll have an offer within 24 hours
Why join us
The backend problems at Haulix are genuinely interesting. You're not building another CRUD API — you're building the infrastructure that sits between AI agents making real-time decisions and dispatchers managing millions of dollars in freight. Latency matters. Reliability matters. Data integrity matters. The work is hard in the right ways.
You'll have real ownership here. No tickets handed down from a PM three layers above you. No six-month roadmap frozen in amber. You'll see a problem, propose a fix, build it, and watch it go live — usually within the same sprint.
Location
Remote(Istanbul)
Job type
Full time
Team
Engineering
Salary
130-170K USD