Traba’s mission is to empower businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential. Traba is a technology company that is revolutionizing the broken staffing industry through a marketplace that connects light industrial businesses with reliable talent while providing workers with flexible and meaningful opportunities. By connecting both, new levels of productivity, earning potential, and avenues for growth are unlocked. We’re proud to be backed by the world’s best investors, such as Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.

We are seeking an experienced & entrepreneurial front-end engineer to join the founding team to help build our core suite of products—mobile apps for both workers & business, and web platforms for our business customers and our internal Ops team. You'll partner with our CTO to help own product decisions, iterate on the product roadmap, and architect & build our foundational tech platform.

About You:

• Voracious learner. You love diving into new areas and exploring new languages, frameworks, and technologies, and can discuss product with a UX designer one minute and deployment infrastructure with tech leads the next.
• Value clear communication. You recognize the importance of clear communication, documented planning, and transparent, frequent feedback.
• Sweat the small stuff. You have strong opinions on design patterns, IDEs, tabs vs. spaces—you understand that how you do one thing is how you do everything, so you care about the details.
• Deep expertise building pixel-perfect, performant web applications. You have designed and built performant, scalable applications, and have expertise in client side state management, responsive design, and frontend tooling.

• Lead the development of our web & mobile applications, guiding other engineers as needed
• Establish best practices in code reusability and build processes for our frontend monorepo
• Collaborate with product & design to build a best-in-class user experience
• Build analytics & monitoring to help understand our user experience & application health
• Contribute in a ton of other ways to a scrappy founding team building the future of flexible light industrial staffing!

• 3 years experience with Typescript/Javascript, and React or React Native
• A track record of shipping amazing products
• Pixel-perfect attention to detail
• Experience building APIs is a plus
• Experience working in an early-stage engineering team, working through ambiguity, and being a self-starter
• A passion for helping people find meaningful work that works for them

• 100% healthcare, dental, and vision
• Early Equity in Traba
• Competitive Salary
• Dinner is provided at the office via Grubhub
• Fully-equipped snack bar
• Additional: One Medical Membership, Gympass, HSA via Optum, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health

Our Values

Dream BIG - We are on a path to change the world for the better. We create and communicate a bold direction that inspires a life-changing vision. We don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results.

Olympian’s Work Ethic - Changing the world never comes easy. We work harder, longer, and smarter, not just two out of three. We put everything we have on the field.

Growth Mindset - We confront the toughest challenges head-on and persevere. Sometimes we fail, but we brush ourselves off, adapt, learn, and push forward with resilience.

Customer Obsession - We go the extra mile for our workers and businesses. We remain focused on delivering high-quality products and services that solve these often overlooked communities’ problems.

What is light industrial labor?

Light industrial flexible staffing is a $40B labor market that encompasses entry-level jobs in warehouses & distribution centers. These workers pack boxes, load trucks, and manage warehouse operations to keep supply chains running at peak efficiency.