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title: 'Software Engineer at Garage'
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# Software Engineer at Garage

- **Company:** Garage
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $150k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/garage/f4018670-2c66-4da9-acac-2aa0af432abb

## Job description

## About us

Garage powers the exchange of critical assets across America’s essential industries. We started with fire departments, where purchasing mission-critical vehicles and equipment used to take months of paperwork, phone calls, and delays. Our agentic platform automates the entire transaction: discovery, payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing. What once took months now takes minutes.

In under a year, we’ve expanded to cities and towns in all 50 states and grown revenue more than 10x. Based in New York, we’ve raised $18M from Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Infinity Ventures, FJ Labs, and other leading investors. We’re moving fast, growing quickly, and just getting started.

## About the role

You’ll join a small team working directly with the founders on a platform with real-world impact. We obsess over user experience and ship products end-to-end. You’ll have the opportunity to make a direct, meaningful impact, shaping product strategy and building systems that move essential equipment and vehicles to communities across 50 states.

- Build and own core systems across our marketplace and operations stack.
- Automate complex workflows spanning payments, logistics, compliance, and financing.
- Design APIs, data models, and services that move real assets at scale.
- Work closely with product and operations to ship quickly and reliably.

## What we’re looking for

- You think in systems, not tickets.
- You get excited by operating in a high-performance startup environment.
- You would love to be customer-facing.
- You play for the front of the jersey, having strong opinions, a willingness to question the status quo, and a drive to become a real expert in whatever space you work in. All while being a great team communicator.

Required

- Strong portfolio or GitHub showcasing full-stack expertise.
- Proficiency in React, TypeScript, Node.js, and modern frontend and backend frameworks.
- Experience designing and working with scalable databases and APIs.

## Nice to have

- Startup experience as a technical co-founder or early engineer at a Series A/B/C startup.
- 4+ years of experience.

## Our values

- Growth oriented. We invest in people who grow as the company grows. We all should be constantly learning.
- Humility. Everyone has a lot to give and a lot to learn. We believe in creating an environment where the best ideas win and acknowledging when we are wrong.
- Customer focused. We have a genuine love for our customers. Customer success is our success.
- Hack to success. We move fast and take big swings. We always aim for a solution that addresses 80% of the problem in 20% of the time. We make informed bets, launch quickly, and iterate.

Why Garage?

- Our product is something people use everyday to buy the equipment local communities everywhere depend on.
- We’ve grown revenue over 10x in the last year and are well capitalized with $18M in funding raised total.
- We have a talent-dense, high-performing team from Ramp, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, Bilt, Wise, Unify, Honey, PayPal, and more.
- You’ll be one of our first 35 employees, operating as a foundational member of the team, partnering alongside the company’s founders.

## What we offer

- Competitive salary and stock options
- Health, dental and vision insurance (100% covered)
- Unlimited paid time off every year (in addition to company observed holidays)
- Daily lunch and dinner
- $100 monthly wellness stipend
- 401(k) with employer match
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Bi-annual team offsite
- Relocation assistance

## About Garage

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Garage is an AI-powered marketplace that modernizes how America buys and sells essential equipment, starting with used firefighting apparatus and gear for public safety agencies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Martin Hunt (CEO) and Alaz Sengul (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Public safety equipment marketplace / GovTech / Software Development
- **Target customers**: B2G (Business-to-Government) — fire departments, cities, and public safety agencies across the U.S.; also serves construction, agriculture, and government surplus equipment verticals
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To help critical equipment reach communities faster, saving taxpayer dollars and supporting the industries that keep America running.

## Products & Services
- **Garage Marketplace**: An AI-powered platform that automates the entire transaction lifecycle for buying and selling used firefighting and emergency equipment — including appraisals, payments, paperwork, freight, warranty, and financing. Reduces what once took months down to minutes. Trusted by over 120 departments nationwide.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $18.625 million
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue (not publicly available); total funding raised ($18.6M)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (W24 batch), Initialized Capital, Infinity Ventures (led Series A), FJ Labs, Wayfinder Ventures. Primary YC Partner: Jared Friedman.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 322.9% year-over-year (24 employees as of mid-2026)
  - Monthly employee growth of 16.5%
  - Trusted by 120+ departments nationwide
  - Series A of $13.5M raised in September 2025
  - Expanding from firefighting into construction, agriculture, and government surplus

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep domain expertise**: Co-founder Martin Hunt worked as a paid firefighter and volunteer EMT for years, giving Garage firsthand understanding of the pain points.
- **Full-stack marketplace**: Unlike Facebook groups or classifieds, Garage handles payments, freight, financing, and paperwork — making it a one-stop, trusted transaction platform.
- **AI-powered automation**: Automates appraisals and paperwork that previously required weeks of manual effort, dramatically compressing transaction times.
- **Mission-driven brand**: Selling to public safety agencies creates a compelling narrative around saving taxpayer money and helping communities.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Deepening the firefighting equipment vertical while expanding into adjacent markets (construction, agriculture, municipal surplus).
- **Growth direction**: Scaling the sales and operations teams, building out the engineering org, and expanding the platform's capabilities for additional asset classes.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Mission-driven startup with a tangible impact on public safety; founded by engineers and operators who met at Columbia; described as modernizing broken, manual processes with software.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: On-site workspace in New York City (HQ in New York, NY).
- **Notable perks**: Offers apprenticeship programs and tuition assistance; strong focus on job training and talent development.
- **Engineering culture**: Small, fast-moving team (24 people) with a YC pedigree; opportunities to own large parts of the stack and product. Backed by top-tier investors. Recent job postings include Software Engineer, Founding Design Engineer, and Software Engineer, Growth.

## Sources
1. [Y Combinator - Garage Company Profile](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/garage-2)
2. [Y Combinator - Garage Jobs](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/garage-2/jobs)
3. [Built In - Garage Careers](https://builtin.com/company/garage)
4. [LinkedIn - Garage](https://www.linkedin.com/company/withgarage)
5. [Wayfinder Ventures - Garage](https://www.wayfinder.com/company/garage)

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