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title: 'Senior Software Engineer - LATAM at TrashLab'
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# Senior Software Engineer - LATAM at TrashLab

- **Company:** TrashLab
- **Location:** Latin America
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/trashlab/am9icG9zdDpSRwePwAYzFOEVEcZ6Wcz8

## Job description

Senior/Staff Software Engineer Remote • LATAM • Full-time • Product Engineering

## About the role

You’ll be responsible for building and launching category-defining products that automate and simplify the operations of waste haulers everywhere.

You’ll work across the stack, turn ambiguous product feedback into production solutions, and use AI deeply throughout your workflow.

## What you’ll do

- Change haulers’ lives by building products that solve real operational problems.
- Turn ambiguous product feedback into production-ready solutions.
- Build full-stack applications across the frontend, backend, and data layer.
- Leverage AI agents to dramatically increase your productivity.
- Own projects from problem definition through launch and iteration.

## What we’re looking for

- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer building full-stack web applications.
- Strong expertise in TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
- Strong SQL and database design skills, with excellent data modeling skills.
- You’re all-in on AI and have deeply integrated it into your engineering workflow.
- We expect 60–80% of the code you write to be generated by AI and 40–50% of your design and architecture work to be AI-assisted. This means our bar for engineering output is 3–4x higher than pre-AI.
- You thrive in ambiguous, challenging problem spaces and can operate autonomously.
- You derive satisfaction from shipping and creating real customer impact.
- Full professional proficiency in English. You’ll report directly to our US-based CTO.

Things we like to see

- You believe AI is fundamentally changing how software is built and what products can be built.
- You already use AI extensively in your day-to-day workflow.
- You’re comfortable operating without a detailed roadmap.
- You move quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality.
- You take ownership and care about the outcome, not just the implementation.

## What we offer

- Competitive compensation at a venture-backed US startup with strong commercial traction.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- A highly engineering-led culture.
- The opportunity to have significant ownership over what we build and how we build it.

Interview process

- Recruiter conversation
- Take-home project
- Virtual onsite
- - Project discussion
- Conversation with the CEO
- Conversation with the CTO

## About TrashLab

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: TrashLab provides an all-in-one operating system for waste haulers, integrating dispatch, billing, routing, CRM, AI order taking, and driver tracking to streamline operations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed Stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: John Tan (Co-Founder & CTO) and one other co-founder (name not publicly disclosed)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Waste management software / Technology, Information and Internet
- **Target customers**: B2B – waste haulers (SMB, mid-market, municipal)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Improve the bottom line of waste haulers and sustainability in our waste system through modern software solutions.” [trashlab.com](https://trashlab.com/about-us)

## Products & Services
- **TrashLab Platform (SaaS)**: A cloud-based, all-in-one system that combines dispatch, route optimization, CRM, billing, customer portals, driver proof of service, reporting, and AI‑powered order taking. It replaces multiple disconnected tools and automates workflows. [trashlab.com](https://trashlab.com/careers)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric (Funding)**: **$4M total** – Seed round of $3M (Dec 2023, led by Harlem Capital) and Pre‑Seed round of $1M (Aug 2022). [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/trash-lab)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Harlem Capital (lead investor)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount growing: 13 employees (+13.3% YoY) per LinkedIn, with 3 active job postings and a +200% quarterly job posting trend.
  - Distributed workforce across 6 countries (US, Brazil, Ukraine, Argentina, Bulgaria, Uruguay).
  - LinkedIn followers: 2,040 (+54.3% yearly).
  - First company offsite held in Mexico City (Jan 2025). [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/trash-lab)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Niche focus**: Built exclusively for the waste hauling industry, addressing workflows that general‑purpose software cannot handle (e.g., dumpster tracking, driver proof, AI order taking).
- **Integrated platform**: Replaces multiple legacy tools (QuickBooks, HubSpot, Google Maps, etc.) with a single operating record, reducing friction and data entry.
- **AI‑first approach**: Embeds AI agents into dispatch, order taking, and sales workflows, giving haulers a modern edge.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the sales organization (hiring Head of Sales, Director of Demand Generation), expanding product engineering and AI agent capabilities, and building out customer success and implementation teams.
- **Direction**: Deepen AI‑optimized routing and agentic workflows, grow the customer base across SMB, mid‑market, and municipal haulers, and continue to reduce administrative overhead for operators.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Growth mindset, autonomy, ownership, and a remote‑first hybrid environment. The team values learning and collaboration, with a recent offsite in Mexico City.
- **Remote / hybrid policy**: Hybrid workspace – employees combine remote work with on‑site time at the San Francisco HQ. Many roles are open to remote candidates in LATAM and Eastern Europe.
- **Notable perks / engineering culture**:
  - Small, distributed team (13–19 people) with a flat structure and direct impact.
  - Tech stack: Python, React, React Native, TypeScript, Postgres, Mapbox, Stripe, and AI/ML tools.
  - Active hiring for Product Engineer, Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, and GTM Engineer.
  - Emphasizes AI‑driven product development and agentic systems. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/trashlab)

## Sources
1. [trashlab.com/careers](https://trashlab.com/careers)
2. [trashlab.com/about-us](https://trashlab.com/about-us)
3. [linkedin.com/company/trash-lab](https://linkedin.com/company/trash-lab)
4. [builtin.com/company/trashlab](https://builtin.com/company/trashlab)
5. [builtin.com/company/trashlab/jobs](https://builtin.com/company/trashlab/jobs)

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