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title: 'Software Engineer at Silkline'
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# Software Engineer at Silkline

- **Company:** Silkline
- **Location:** Chicago, IL
- **Compensation:** $150k–$225k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-08-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/silkline/am9icG9zdDrLwsEQTKKa02Ut_F9kgzby

## Job description

## Overview

At Silkline, we have a bold mission - bring transparency and reliability to global supply chains. We are starting by building the modern operating system for procurement, helping businesses understand their supply networks and adapt to disruption.

Silkline is a seed-stage tech startup backed by top venture investors. This past year, we have grown our customer base 5x, and we are looking to grow rapidly. Join us on the ground floor as we scale our product offering and customer base.

The Founding Team

- [Isaac Chambers](https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacmchambers/) is a 3x founder and started his career at Deloitte Consulting, focusing on supply chain & manufacturing operations for the aerospace & defense sector.
- [Brent Shulman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shulmanbrent/) is a full-stack engineering leader and was previously an engineer at Palantir and Pave. While at Pave (where he joined as the 10th engineer), he founded, grew, and led the data integration team - scaling from 10 to thousands of customer connections.

The Opportunity As an early engineer, you will play a critical role in setting Silkline’s technical direction. You will be hands-on, building our early product and talking directly with our initial customers and users. From the start, it is critical that you can build a 0-1 product with great UI/UX. As we grow, you will own and lead the architectural roadmap that will lay the foundation for the Silkline platform. Your technical leadership will be a key factor in supporting and growing our engineering and product teams.

You need to be both strategic and tactical. We are seeking a builder to develop our product specs and front-end components into an enterprise-ready application. We are also looking for a self-starter, not afraid to get their hands dirty and rapidly iterate on prototypes early in the development lifecycle. An ability to handle ambiguity is a must.

We need a top-tier team to help build a platform that will fundamentally change and improve supply chain networks.

Looking back on your first 12 months at Silkline, you will have...

- Built and led the delivery of the early versions of the Silkline platform, spearheading pilot programs at initial customers
- Worked with the team to think through strategy and the evolution of the business
- Influenced new product and feature design while defining a long-term technical strategy aligned with industry best practices
- Designed and implemented platform integrations with outside APIs, partners, and cloud infrastructure
- Built something scrappily to show customer value, so that we have now earned the right to re-architect for scale.

What you bring to Silkline:

- 5+ years building across front-end and back-end
- Experience with modern, open-source tech (Typescript, React, Next.js, GraphQL, Trigger.dev)
- Startup experience and/or agency experience (bonus if it is in supply chain). Early-stage product experience building from zero to one
- Ability to build out various API integrations with speed
- Experience working with non-technical stakeholders and users. Comfortable leading and managing an engineering team
- Ideal experience includes previous work with various ERP system API

## Compensation includes equity

## About Silkline

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Silkline is a platform that connects advanced manufacturers with their suppliers to orchestrate supply chains, automate procurement workflows, and improve collaboration.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed-stage)
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Isaac Chambers (CEO, Co-founder), Brent Shulman (Engineering, Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Supply chain software, manufacturing technology, procurement automation
- **Target customers**: B2B – advanced manufacturers in high-trust industries such as aerospace, energy, space, and defense
- **Mission or purpose**: "Connecting advanced manufacturers with their suppliers for stronger supply chains."

## Products & Services
- **Silkline Platform**: A SaaS platform that combines integrations, security, and workflow automation to orchestrate every step of the supply chain. Key capabilities include:
  - **BOM-driven procurement**: Automatically generate procurement plans from bills of materials and track clear-to-build dates.
  - **RFQ & quote management**: Send and track RFQs, securely share part files, and compare quotes from multiple suppliers.
  - **PO automation**: Generate and approve purchase orders with flexible workflows, reducing approval time to under two hours.
  - **Order management**: Capture PO confirmations, track open orders, and monitor item statuses and ETAs.
  - **Supplier scorecards**: Continuously monitor delivery, quality, and responsiveness with real-time updates and risk alerts.
  - **Compliance documentation**: Automate FAR/DFARS, ISO/AS9100 documentation, maintain full traceability and version history.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $4M (Seed round led by Origin Ventures, November 2025; pre-seed round led by Matchstick Ventures, October 2023)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Matchstick Ventures, Origin Ventures; integration partners include ERP, MES, email, and collaboration tools
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount grew 157.1% year-over-year (LinkedIn reports 11 employees; Built In lists 16 total employees)
  - 929 LinkedIn followers (+147.7% YoY)
  - Achieved breakout growth in H1 2025 (PRWeb, July 2025)
  - Announced partnership with Manufacturo for quality control (December 2024)

## Competitive Advantages
- **No supplier onboarding required** – suppliers can collaborate without joining the platform, lowering adoption friction.
- **Seamless integrations** – connects with existing ERP, MES, email, and collaboration tools in minutes.
- **Enterprise-grade security** – SOC 2 certified and ITAR-compliant, with data stored in a US Gov Cloud environment.
- **BOM-to-procurement automation** – turns engineering bills of materials directly into actionable procurement plans, reducing manual spreadsheet work.
- **Compliance automation** – automates FAR/DFARS and ISO/AS9100 documentation, critical for defense and aerospace customers.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening presence in high-trust, regulated industries (aerospace, defense, space, energy).
- Expanding automation capabilities for procurement documentation and compliance.
- Building out integrations with more ERP and MES systems.
- Scaling the platform to support larger manufacturing enterprises while maintaining ease of use.

## Why Work Here
- **Early-stage startup** – founded in 2023, employees have significant ownership and impact on product direction.
- **In-office culture** – Chicago HQ, employees work from physical offices (no remote/hybrid option mentioned).
- **Core values**: curiosity, humility, action bias, and pride in building a platform customers love.
- **Growing team** – headcount doubling year-over-year; technical roles currently make up ~28% of staff.
- **Meaningful work** – solving real supply chain inefficiencies for critical industries; work directly with manufacturing leaders.
- **Career growth** – small team (16 people) means broad responsibilities and fast learning.

## Sources
1. [silkline.ai/about](https://www.silkline.ai/about)
2. [silkline.ai/platform](https://silkline.ai/platform)
3. [builtin.com/company/silkline](https://builtin.com/company/silkline)
4. [linkedin.com/company/silklineai](https://linkedin.com/company/silklineai)
5. [jobs.gem.com/silkline](https://jobs.gem.com/silkline/am9icG9zdDrLwsEQTKKa02Ut_F9kgzby)

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