Senior Software Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Redwood City, CA
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years building production software, with real depth across the stack.
- 2+ years at an early-stage startup (seed to Series B) — required. No playbook, no infrastructure handed to you. A purely big-company background isn't a fit.
- You love building product. The one we won't compromise on. You care what it feels like to use and you have opinions about the interface. If you'd rather be handed a spec than help write one, this will
- Fluent in AI, both directions. You build with it — we live in Claude Code — and you ship model-powered features reliable enough to sell.
- You communicate with precision. An engineer, a customer, and the CEO all leave knowing what you decided and why.
- You close things. Messy problems start to finish, and you flag slippage before it slips.
- You're all in. Small team, office five days a week, rocket ship you plant a flag on — not a stepping stone.
Full description
Waystation AI | Redwood City, CA (in person, 5 days/week) | Full-time
Own whole product areas end to end, on a growing engineering team where something customer-visible ships every week.
About Waystation
CPG is a $2 trillion market in the U.S., and the manufacturers behind it still run procurement out of email and spreadsheets. Waystation turns supplier email into a structured system of record — every quote, spec, COA, and PO extracted automatically — then gives procurement, QA, and R&D a platform to compare ingredients, track certifications, and draft supplier comms on top of it.
Seed-stage, venture-backed, with paying customers including national bakery, supplement, and better-for-you brands. One customer saved over $200,000 in the first three months. Led by repeat founder Ryan Caldbeck (previously CircleUp); backed by Founder Collective, Homebrew, Slow Ventures, 87 Capital, Floodgate, and SuccessVP.
What you'll own
- Whole product areas, end to end. Supplier comparison, cert tracking, quote workflows. Backend, interface, and the follow-through after launch — not tickets.
- Impact you can point to. One of six engineers and growing, at a company with real customers and a market measured in trillions. What you ship this month shows up in a renewal conversation next month, and there's no layer between you and that.
- A weekly shipping cadence. Rough and working beats perfect and late. Then you come back and make it right.
- AI as product. Extraction, comparison, drafting, retrieval. Including the unglamorous parts: evals, fallbacks, and what to do when the model is confidently wrong.
- The customer's actual problem. You'll be on customer calls. Requirements don't arrive pre-chewed.
- Quality that holds. When something breaks, you fix the system, not the symptom.
What we're looking for
We'll back the right engineer over the right résumé.
- 5+ years building production software, with real depth across the stack.
- 2+ years at an early-stage startup (seed to Series B) — required. No playbook, no infrastructure handed to you. A purely big-company background isn't a fit.
- You love building product. The one we won't compromise on. You care what it feels like to use and you have opinions about the interface. If you'd rather be handed a spec than help write one, this will frustrate you.
- Fluent in AI, both directions. You build with it — we live in Claude Code — and you ship model-powered features reliable enough to sell.