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# TrashLab - Sr. Software Backend Engineer at Silver.dev

- **Company:** Silver.dev
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** $75k–$100k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-21
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/silver/90f1adf9-5090-4ac7-b3e1-1493c78da0e3/application

**Skills:** Node.js, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform, PostgreSQL, API design, Distributed systems

> Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for real-time vehicle tracking, route optimization, and billing. Own infrastructure reliability, observability, and data systems while shaping long-term backend architecture for a waste management platform.

## Job description

Sr. Software Backend Engineer | [TrashLab](https://trashlab.com/)

Join Trashlab — the operating system for waste haulers.

We unify dispatch, billing, calls and routes into one powerful platform that transforms how waste fleets operate. By combining real‑time vehicle tracking, route optimization, integrated billing, and customer communications, Trashlab helps haulers cut costs, speed up collections, and deliver exceptional service. If you’re passionate about building scalable software that drives operational efficiency and sustainability in the waste industry, come help us build the future of waste operations.

## What you'll do

- Own the infrastructure that keeps fleets running
- Design, build, and maintain backend services for real-time vehicle tracking, route optimization, billing, and dispatch — systems haulers depend on from first route to last invoice.
- Build for reliability and scale
- Own the reliability and observability of our platform. Set up monitoring, alerting, and on-call practices that give the team confidence to ship fast without breaking things.
- Design data systems that handle complexity
- Model and evolve our Postgres schema, manage migrations, and build integrations with third-party systems — billing providers, telematics APIs, and customer communications platforms.
- Shape backend architecture long-term
- Work closely with the founding team to define decisions that will compound over time. You'll have outsized influence on what we build and how.

## What we're looking for

- Strong backend fundamentals
- You've built and shipped production Node.js services. You understand API design, database performance, and distributed systems tradeoffs.
- Infrastructure experience
- You've managed cloud infrastructure — ideally on AWS or GCP — and are comfortable with containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and defining infrastructure as code (Terraform).
- Ownership mindset
- You can take an ambiguous problem, scope it, and ship a solution without needing everything defined upfront.
- Comfort with operational software
- AI multi-agent expert

Interview Process

- Silver Screening interview
- Take home challenge
- Client resume review + take home review
- Client technical interview
- Paid work trial.

## About Silver.dev

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Silver.dev is a talent agency that connects venture-backed startups with vetted, interview-ready software engineers from Latin America.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped/founder-funded)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Gabriel (last name not publicly disclosed; founder & owner is a former Staff Engineer with hiring manager experience)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Staffing and Recruiting (specialized in software engineering talent).
- Target customers: B2B; primarily venture-backed startups (half of clients are Y Combinator companies) and product-focused tech companies.
- Mission/purpose: To help startups hire the right engineers without wasting weeks on interviews that go nowhere, by providing a no-BS, founder-led recruiting partner.

## Products & Services
- **Direct Hiring**: Full-time, permanent placement of interview-ready engineers who are vetted by engineers and integrated directly into the client’s team.
- **RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing)**: A flexible, dedicated hiring partner model that gives clients constant access to vetted candidates, designed for rapid scaling.
- **Payroll & Employer of Record (EOR)**: Handles contracts, onboarding, and compliance for hiring across Latin America, allowing clients to focus on growth.
- **Staffing**: Contract placement of talent under Silver.dev’s payroll, removing compliance overhead for the client.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: 11 employees (up 62.5% year-over-year); 7,440 LinkedIn followers; 20,814 monthly website visits (up 35.2% year-over-year).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: None publicly listed (clients include Y Combinator and Initialized Capital portfolio companies).
- **Growth Signals**: +62.5% headcount growth YoY; traffic growing +35.2% YoY; high client satisfaction (4.9/8 reviews on Clutch); average nine-day sprint from first call to signed offer for senior roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founder-led**: Run by a former Staff Engineer with hands-on hiring management experience, ensuring deep understanding of product-grade engineering needs.
- **Engineer-vetted pipeline**: All candidates are screened by experienced engineers, not generic recruiters.
- **Outcome-based pricing**: Clients pay only when a candidate signs, removing financial risk.
- **Speed & quality**: Roles are filled in an average of nine days, with candidates who are truly interview-ready and culturally aligned with startups.
- **LatAm focus**: Taps into a high-quality, cost-effective talent pool across Latin America, handling compliance and payroll.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue to serve venture-backed startups, especially YC companies, by scaling the vetted talent pipeline.
- Deepen services to include RPO and EOR, making it easier for US startups to hire compliantly across LatAm.
- Expand the network of high-ownership, ambitious engineers prepared for startup environments.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Client reviews highlight a proactive, transparent, and collaborative team that “feels like an extension of the startup DNA.” High employee satisfaction with strong communication and adaptive problem-solving.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: The company has offices in San Francisco and Buenos Aires, but job postings are predominantly remote. The team is distributed across Argentina (85%) and the US.
- **Perks & Engineering Culture**: As a talent agency run by a former engineer, the company deeply understands engineering needs. Roles listed on their jobs board often include equity, bonuses, and equipment (MacBook). The small, lean team (11 people) offers fast-paced growth opportunities.

## Sources
1. [silver.dev](https://silver.dev/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/silver-dev](https://www.linkedin.com/company/silver-dev)
3. [clutch.co/profile/silverdev](https://clutch.co/profile/silverdev)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/silver](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/silver)

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