The role
- COMP
- $150K - $220K
- EQUITY
- Competitive equity
- LOCATION
- Washington DC
- WORKPLACE
- On-site
- EXPERIENCE
- 2 - 8 years
- VISA
- None
- STACK
- Go, C/C++, Java, Rust, PostgreSQL
- INDUSTRY
- Defense, Logistics, AI
/roles — ROLE_471
Backend Software Engineer, Distribution
Fast-growing defense software startup modernizing how the US military plans and runs logistics and sustainment
The company
Defense software startup building AI-enabled logistics and sustainment tools that give US military commanders a real-time view of supplies, working embedded with operational units.
- STAGE
- growth-stage
- FUNDING
- $40M+ raised
- TEAM
- ~60 people
- FOUNDED
- 2024
JD — the work
About the role
You would architect and ship the live software that governs how materiel, gear, and other essential resources move across large, complicated military supply networks. The company, a fast-growing defense tech startup with a recent Series A, works embedded with US military units and is replacing manual tracking with live, AI-assisted logistics software. The role is on-site in the Washington DC area.
What you'll do
- Own the backend services behind distribution, covering route planning, dispatching, shipments, and replanning on the fly
- Express real military logistics processes in Go as event-driven services, APIs, and long-lived domain models
- Reconcile inventory, demand, transport capacity, and constraints across networks, including degraded or contested conditions
- Fold optimization and planning outputs into operational software as dependable, executable workflows
- Sit with service members and logistics specialists to find high-leverage problems and turn loosely defined needs into software that scales
What they're looking for
- 7+ years building distributed or backend systems, with meaningful ownership of software in production
- Built production systems for supply chain, fulfillment, transport, or another complex operations domain
- Strong programming in Go or a comparable high-performance language such as C++, Java, or Rust
- Deep distributed systems knowledge, including messaging, asynchronous work, state management, service architecture, and failure handling
- Track record leading complex projects on your own, from an unclear problem to deployment and operations