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title: 'Software Engineer: Backend & Infrastructure at Vooma'
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# Software Engineer: Backend & Infrastructure at Vooma

- **Company:** Vooma
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2025-07-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vooma/27eff832-988e-4d53-a6b4-b758085ae334

## Job description

## About the role

Your role, should you choose to join us, will be as an Infrastructure / Backend Engineer on our founding team. You're the right person for this role if you're excited to build not just robust systems, but help shape the technical backbone of a category-defining company from day one. You're a great fit if you're known for making infrastructure elegant, reliable, and secure — even under demanding workloads. You find energy in scaling systems that power intelligent agents, and you take pride in building foundations others can depend on. Your responsibilities will include:

- Designing and maintaining secure, scalable infrastructure for AI-powered agents in production
- Deploying and optimizing AI-heavy services with high availability and performance requirements
- Managing infrastructure as code, cloud environments, and CI/CD pipelines
- Implementing monitoring, observability, and alerting to ensure system reliability
- Contributing to infrastructure security and best practices

You likely have:

- Experience deploying and productionizing ML or AI-heavy workloads
- Expertise in building secure, scalable systems on platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Deep knowledge of backend systems, networking, and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with infrastructure security principles and compliance (e.g., SOC2)
- The mindset of an owner: proactive, hands-on, and driven to solve problems end-to-end

## Compensation

- The rare opportunity to join a formidable team to build an enduring company, in person, as a first 20 employee
- Competitive compensation
- Significant equity upside
- Medical / dental / vision

This role is based in person in San Francisco, CA (not remote).

## About Vooma

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Vooma provides an AI agent platform for logistics brokers and carriers that automates back-office workflows like quoting, load building, scheduling, covering, and tracking freight.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Mike Carter and Jesse Buckingham

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Logistics technology, freight brokerage, supply chain automation
- **Target customers**: B2B — 3PLs, freight brokers, freight forwarders, and carriers
- **Mission / purpose**: Help logistics companies win and move more freight by deploying AI agents that automate repetitive manual tasks, allowing teams to focus on service, speed, and scale.

## Products & Services
- **Vooma Platform (Quote to Cash)**: A unified AI agent platform that covers the entire freight lifecycle:
  - **Build**: Automatically extracts shipment details from emails, PDFs, and spreadsheets, incorporating tribal knowledge to build accurate loads in a TMS.
  - **Quote**: Reads incoming quote requests, connects to pricing engines/rate history, and helps respond to customers instantly.
  - **Cover**: Posts loads to DAT & Truckstop, fields inbound calls/emails, vets carriers, negotiates rates, and books freight.
  - **Schedule**: Emails, calls facilities, or logs into portals to secure optimal appointments.
  - **Track**: Monitors active shipments for issues and proactively contacts drivers via call, text, or email.
  - **Collect**: Monitors delivered shipments for missing documentation and follows up with carriers for PODs.
- **AI Workers**: AI agents that operate over voice, email, and text, logging into systems and performing tasks 24/7.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Funding**: Total funding of **$18.45M** across four rounds:
  - Pre-Seed (Apr 2023): $500K led by Y Combinator
  - Seed (Sep 2023): $125K
  - Seed (Dec 2023): $3.6M from 27 investors
  - Series A (Dec 2024): $14.2M led by **Craft Ventures**, with participation from Index Ventures, Y Combinator, and 25+ logistics founders/CEOs
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue — not publicly available (private company); notable customer metrics include:
  - 90%+ reduction in data errors
  - 65%+ improvement in email quote win rate
  - 2+ hours saved per day per rep
  - Load building reduced from 5 minutes to 15 seconds
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Y Combinator (W23 batch), Craft Ventures, Index Ventures, and 25+ leading logistics founders/CEOs
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Team size: ~30 employees (as of late 2024)
  - Customers include Echo, MoLo, Arrive, Sunset, MODE, Evans, and many more
  - 20-30% of loads covered by voice agents for customers
  - 5x more freight quoted per rep per day

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep domain expertise**: Founders combine AI/autonomy expertise (Mike — founding engineer at Kodiak Robotics, Uber ATG) with logistics industry experience (Jesse — grew a logistics software company from $2M to $20M+ ARR as CEO).
- **Proprietary approach**: Combines computer vision with large language models to handle the variety of file types (emails, PDFs, spreadsheets) that make traditional RPA ineffective in logistics.
- **Platform breadth**: Covers the entire quote-to-cash workflow, not just point solutions — eliminating the need for multiple tools.
- **Collective intelligence**: Learns the nuances of each customer’s SOPs, carriers, and facilities, turning tribal knowledge into automated processes.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the platform**: Deepen integrations with TMS, DAT, Truckstop, and other logistics systems.
- **Expand carrier side**: Growing the carrier-facing product to help carriers build and schedule loads and keep brokers updated.
- **Voice AI leadership**: Voice agents are a key differentiator — already handling 20-30% of load coverage for customers.
- **Vertical expansion**: Targeting more segments within logistics (freight forwarders, 3PLs).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include “Bias to action” and “Tag, you’re it” — emphasizing ownership, speed, and collaboration.
- **Team composition**: A mix of technologists (founders from Stanford, Kodiak, Uber ATG) and operators (Bain, private equity-backed logistics). Talent sources include Bain, Flexport, Stanford, and YC.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong technical foundation — the CTO was a founding engineer at a $250M-funded autonomous trucking startup. Engineering team makes up ~31% of headcount.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Based in San Francisco, CA with a presence in Palo Alto, CA. Some roles appear remote-friendly; specific policy varies by role.
- **Notable perks**: Early-stage equity, opportunity to work on AI agents in a $200B+ addressable market (60% of freight orders still come via email/text/PDF). The company is well-funded ($18.45M) by top-tier investors.
- **Recent departures**: Founding GTM Luke Walquist left in April 2026 — the team is actively rebuilding go-to-market leadership.

## Sources
1. [vooma.com](https://www.vooma.com/)
2. [vooma.com/about-us](https://www.vooma.com/about-us)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/vooma](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vooma)
4. [ycombinator.com/companies/vooma](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vooma)
5. [linkedin.com/company/vooma-inc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/vooma-inc)
6. [freightwaves.com](https://www.freightwaves.com/news/vooma-grabs-16-6m-in-funding-as-brokers-prepare-for-market-swing)

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