Role: Founding Engineer
Compensation: $140k-$200k
Location: (In person) Brooklyn. NYC 3x days a week.
Employment Type: Full Time
About Double Nickel
We’re rebuilding how logistics companies hire and retain drivers—using AI from the ground up. Trucking powers over 70% of the nation’s freight, but the systems that move drivers into seats are slow, manual, and outdated. We’re building agentic recruiting software that’s fast, compliant, and actually works.
We’re a small, fast-moving team that ships real product every week. We build for impact, work directly with customers, and move with urgency.
What You'll Do
You’ll be a founding engineer owning core systems end to end, working directly with the CTO and CEO, and shaping what we build and how we scale. You won’t be handed tickets. You’ll help decide what to ship, why it matters, and how to move fast.
You’ll architect key systems, work with cutting-edge AI tools, and build solutions that have immediate impact. This is a chance to shape the product, the team, and the company from the ground up.
- Ownership mentality: You take full responsibility for problems, chart your own path forward, and see things through without waiting for direction.
- Speed and execution: You move quickly, make decisions with incomplete information, and ship iteratively to learn and improve.
- Product-driven mindset: You focus on user impact, prioritize outcomes over perfection, and care deeply about what the customer experiences.
- Clarity in communication: You raise blockers early, ask sharp questions, and keep teammates aligned without being prompted.
- High standards: You care about code quality, system reliability, and building things that last—even under pressure.
- Startup readiness: You’re energized by ambiguity, limited resources, and the opportunity to help shape something new.
Role Qualifications
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on full-stack development
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related STEM field
- Comfortable using AI tools to build smarter systems, automate workflows, or accelerate development
- Architect and develop solutions using React, TypeScript, and Python
- Build and deploy multi-modal AI agents across voice, text, and email
- Integrate tools like LLMs, speech-to-text, and workflow orchestration to automate recruiting workflows
Bonus Experience
- Experience with LLMs, speech-to-text, or other AI APIs
- Working at early-stage startups is a plus
Why Join Now
Driver recruiting is broken. Fleets are looking for something faster, smarter, and more cost-effective. Compliance rules are strict. Turnover is high. And every day a truck sits empty, companies lose money. The need is real and growing.
