Our supply chain is the circulatory system of the global economy. Every product on every shelf, every component in every factory, every meal in every restaurant, moved on a truck to get there. And for decades, that system has been running at half capacity. Every year, up to 50% of US truck space goes unused, a $100B+ annual inefficiency that acts as a hidden tax on everything Americans buy, sell, and manufacture. It slows reindustrialization, inflates goods prices, suppresses carrier earnings, and makes US supply chains more fragile than they need to be.
Oway is fixing it. We're an industrial automation and research company building AI systems that automatically price, match, and sell unused freight capacity in real time, turning dead miles into productive ones and giving businesses access to dramatically faster, cheaper distribution than anything that's existed before. When freight moves more efficiently, goods cost less, manufacturers can compete more aggressively, and the carriers who are the backbone of the US economy earn more for the work they already do.
At the center of this is Juno, our AI-native coordination engine. Autonomous freight coordination at scale is one of the hardest real-world AI problems being worked on today: it requires reasoning over live telemetry from thousands of vehicles, pricing under uncertainty, handling edge cases that no rulebook anticipated, and doing all of it in real time without human intervention. Juno does this. And as it improves, it compounds. Each solved edge case, each routing insight, each pricing calibration makes the entire network smarter. The data moat Oway is building through Juno isn't just defensible in logistics; it's the kind of industrial intelligence that could underpin US competitiveness across physical industries for decades.
We're backed by YC, General Catalyst, and leading investors in AI, industrials, and automation, and we're just getting started.
We're a fast-moving team looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to help us build the next generation of Oway's platform. You'll work closely with our engineering leads to build critical infrastructure that powers automated distribution for thousands of businesses, from our shipper-facing app and API to the internal tooling that supports Juno, our AI-native coordination engine.
Your work will touch every layer of the product: the instant quoting flows that get businesses a price in 30 seconds, the shipment lifecycle from creation to delivery, and the integrations that connect Oway into enterprise infrastructure via our REST API, SMC3, and Project 44.
We run a three-step process:
Oway was built by non-conventional thinkers who value diverse backgrounds and creative problem-solving. If you don't fit the mold perfectly, we still encourage you to apply.
Oway is an AI-driven freight platform that turns America’s empty truck space into a new category of freight shipping. Every year 50% of U.S. truck space goes unused, a $100B+ inefficiency. Oway uses AI to automatically price, match, and sell that space in real time, giving businesses freight shipping that is dramatically faster and cheaper than traditional options.
We're building the largest decentralized network of America’s empty truck space - a transparent infrastructure layer any shipper, broker, or carrier can plug into. For shippers, this means freight costs that are up to 50% lower than traditional LTL (shipments from 1 to 12 pallets), along with faster delivery windows because freight moves directly from dock to dock without the slow handoffs, warehouses, or cross-docking infrastructure that LTL depends on. For carriers, Oway’s integration can increase annual revenues by up to 30% with minimal impact on existing schedules. They simply earn more by monetizing space that would have gone unused.
Our mission is to transform empty truck space into an asset that strengthens U.S. competitiveness. By lowering the cost of goods sold, we help businesses grow. By improving carrier margins, we make trucking more sustainable. And by digitizing and decentralizing freight, we are laying the foundation for a resilient, transparent logistics layer that can support America’s reindustrialization in the decades ahead. Oway makes freight shipping as simple as ridesharing - click a button, book a truck, and move goods at the true cost of available capacity.
Salary
$150,000 - $220,000
Equity
0.2% - 0.6%
Location
Remote
Experience
3+ years
Total raised
$4.0M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Phillip Nadjafov
LinkedInPhillip Nadjafov
Founder & CEO
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