Senior Backend Engineer at cargo-one — Remote | HireMeridian

Senior Backend Engineer at cargo-one. Remote, open to Remote EMEA. Apply directly — no middleman.

Job description

🏆 What's the opportunity? In 2026 we launched the industry's first AI-native operating system for freight: one workspace where freight teams and AI agents work side by side across rate management, procurement, quoting, booking and support. The AI here isn't a roadmap slide - it ships to production and quotes real freight every day. You'll build that system, and you'll own problems end to end: shaping the architecture, writing the spec, shipping the code and watching real freight forwarders use it the same week. In a three-engineer squad, your design decisions are the team's design decisions. And you'll work the way the product works: spec-first, with Claude Code in the loop daily - the interesting part of your job is the thinking, not the typing. Logistics powers the global economy, but the work behind it is still overwhelmingly manual. We're fixing that for 30,000+ users across 172 countries, with customers like Lufthansa Cargo and Kuehne+Nagel, backed by Index and Bessemer. 🌍 You can work remotely from across EMEA (within our approved hiring countries); we meet in person regularly, and can support visa processes in Germany only. The culture is positive, diverse, hard-working and feedback-heavy, with a strong dose of playfulness. 🎬 A snapshot of what you'll be doing

Own problem spaces end to end: you write the spec and the acceptance criteria, agents do much of the typing, and you own the review, the architecture and what ships.

Build AI into the product itself - for example: when an airline quotes a price over email, our AI agents turn that free-text reply into a quote the customer can book in the app.

Make AI trustworthy where a wrong number books real freight: structured outputs, evals, confidence-gated human review, monitoring.

Raise the squad's AI leverage: better specs, better harnesses, better review - your workflow improvements ship to every engineer.

Build self-service tools (Vue.js front-ends on a Python backend) so colleagues help

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