Software Engineer

About us

Garage powers the exchange of critical assets across America’s essential industries. We started with fire departments, where purchasing mission-critical vehicles and equipment used to take months of paperwork, phone calls, and delays. Our agentic platform automates the entire transaction: discovery, payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing. What once took months now takes minutes.

In under a year, we’ve expanded to cities and towns in all 50 states and grown revenue more than 10x. Based in New York, we’ve raised $18M from Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Infinity Ventures, FJ Labs, and other leading investors. We’re moving fast, growing quickly, and just getting started.

About the role

You’ll join a small team working directly with the founders on a platform with real-world impact. We obsess over user experience and ship products end-to-end. You’ll have the opportunity to make a direct, meaningful impact, shaping product strategy and building systems that move essential equipment and vehicles to communities across 50 states.

• Build and own core systems across our marketplace and operations stack.
• Automate complex workflows spanning payments, logistics, compliance, and financing.
• Design APIs, data models, and services that move real assets at scale.
• Work closely with product and operations to ship quickly and reliably.

What we’re looking for

• You think in systems, not tickets.
• You get excited by operating in a high-performance startup environment.
• You would love to be customer-facing.
• You play for the front of the jersey, having strong opinions, a willingness to question the status quo, and a drive to become a real expert in whatever space you work in. All while being a great team communicator.

Required

• Strong portfolio or GitHub showcasing full-stack expertise.
• Proficiency in React, TypeScript, Node.js, and modern frontend and backend frameworks.
• Experience designing and working with scalable databases and APIs.

Nice to have

• Startup experience as a technical co-founder or early engineer at a Series A/B/C startup.
• 4+ years of experience.

Our values

• Growth oriented. We invest in people who grow as the company grows. We all should be constantly learning.
• Humility. Everyone has a lot to give and a lot to learn. We believe in creating an environment where the best ideas win and acknowledging when we are wrong.
• Customer focused. We have a genuine love for our customers. Customer success is our success.
• Hack to success. We move fast and take big swings. We always aim for a solution that addresses 80% of the problem in 20% of the time. We make informed bets, launch quickly, and iterate.

Why Garage?

• Our product is something people use everyday to buy the equipment local communities everywhere depend on.
• We’ve grown revenue over 10x in the last year and are well capitalized with $18M in funding raised total.
• We have a talent-dense, high-performing team from Ramp, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, Bilt, Wise, Unify, Honey, PayPal, and more.
• You’ll be one of our first 35 employees, operating as a foundational member of the team, partnering alongside the company’s founders.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Health, dental and vision insurance (100% covered)
• Unlimited paid time off every year (in addition to company observed holidays)
• Daily lunch and dinner
• $100 monthly wellness stipend
• 401(k) with employer match
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Bi-annual team offsite
• Relocation assistance