Staff Software Engineer

Boon is an AI agent platform designed specifically for supply chain and logistics providers—the backbone of our economy. Founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2023 by product and engineering leaders from Samsara, Apple, Google and DoorDash. Boon is backed by leading Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

At Boon, you'll play a critical role in shaping the future of AI-driven supply chain and logistics operations. Our team is dedicated to constant innovation, empowering customers to streamline crucial operational and revenue-generating workflows. We enable logistics providers to serve their customers better, delivering food, supplies, equipment, and people swiftly and efficiently. Joining us at this early stage means you’ll have significant autonomy and opportunities to make an immediate and lasting impact on a vital industry.

As a Staff Software Engineer at Boon, you’ll join a small, close-knit team of engineers inventing next-generation tools for fleets. You will build features end-to-end in collaboration with Product, Design, and our customers, while shaping our architecture and technical roadmap.

• Develop end-to-end features, including backend code, APIs, and frontend UI, in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

• Build and maintain monitoring and alerting infrastructure for critical product flows.

• Ensure observability and maintenance for features developed by you and your team.

• Influence technical direction for backend and frontend applications.

• Shape engineering team culture, processes, and best practices.

• You want to make a big impact in industries that keep the world moving, such as transportation, healthcare, and essential services.

• You are curious and excel at uncovering complex customer pain points, thriving in ambiguous situations while making quick, informed decisions.

• You value teamwork, celebrate successes together, and provide mutual support within the team.

• You are comfortable making decisions with incomplete information, balancing speed and accuracy in high-stakes scenarios.

• You have experience with Golang, including a strong understanding of its ecosystem and best practices.

• 8+ years experience in backend system development with a solid grasp of object-oriented programming and relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL).

• Knowledge of distributed system design patterns and unit testing frameworks.

• Strong collaboration, communication skills, and customer/colleague empathy.

• Strong design intuition and ability to address ambiguous engineering challenges.

• Experience with browser automation tools (e.g., Selenium, Playwright).

• Hands-on experience with distributed systems.

• Interest or experience in AI and machine learning.

At Boon, we want to attract and retain the best employees and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate’s skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. This estimate can vary based on the above mentioned factors, so the actual starting annual base salary may be above or below this range. A Boon employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company.

As an equal-opportunity employer, Boon is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Boon will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.