Lead Software Engineer

Summary

SafetyChain is building the next generation of enterprise software for the supply chain—systems that actually help operators think, decide, and act in real time. We’re assembling a senior engineering group in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex to build this platform from the ground up using a modern, AI-first development environment.

Who We Are

SafetyChain is a fast-growing B2B SaaS software company. Our industry leading Plant Management Platform helps manufacturers improve yield, maximize productivity, and ensure compliance throughout their operations.

Headquartered in Novato, CA, we have a passionate, diverse team with the majority of our employees working remotely across the country to serve our customers. We operate with the fun and flexibility of a start-up combined with the stability of a mature and rapidly growing software company.

Our solutions are used every day in thousands of facilities to help our customers make their products better and safer. Customers include many well-known brands like Albertsons, Clif Bar, Driscoll’s, Schwan’s, See’s Candies, Tyson Foods, United Airlines, WholeFoods and White Castle. We believe our culture of “Help and Hustle” makes for a great place to work and we foster a dynamic, positive environment that enables our teams to put their creative energies towards solving our customers’ problems and supporting each other. Our culture is real, tangible and immensely rewarding.

What You’ll Do

You’ll help design and build the foundations of SafetyChain’s next-gen platform—enterprise-grade, AI-enabled, and capable of supporting a wide range of operational workflows across the food & beverage supply chain. This includes:

• Building high-performance services and applications in an end-to-end TypeScript environment (Deno backend + unified front-end framework).
• Working in a monorepo with strong engineering conventions and automated tooling to accelerate iteration.
• Using AI-driven developer workflows (code generation, scaffolding, automated tests, modeling, inference-based data mapping, etc.) to dramatically speed up delivery.
• Making pragmatic architectural decisions—knowing when to build, when to buy, and when to rely on the surrounding ecosystem.
• Designing systems where platforms emerge from real demand rather than speculative abstraction.
• Contributing to an “office-first when collaboration matters” culture that values high-bandwidth problem solving and clear ownership.
• Building enterprise-scale features with attention to reliability, data semantics, and real-world operational constraints.
• Partnering closely with Product and AI/ML teams to translate domain complexity into clean, scalable systems.
  
  

What You Bring

You don’t need to show up as a TypeScript or Deno expert—but you must be the kind of engineer who can learn fast, adapt faster, and enjoy working with modern tooling.

Core Experience

• 8+ years building modern web applications or distributed systems (enterprise experience strongly preferred).
• Strong background in at least one of: TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, or C#.
• Experience with multiple data storage models—document, columnar, relational—and clear reasoning about tradeoffs.
• Ability to design and debug systems that operate at real-world scale and complexity.
• A practical mindset: you don’t reinvent authentication, messaging, or streaming engines unless there’s a damned good reason.
• Comfort with hybrid work and in-office collaboration for high-context problem-solving.
  
  

Full-Stack Engineers

• Experience building and maintaining APIs, data pipelines, or backend primitives.
• Strong architectural intuition around distributed systems, eventing, and state management.
• Ability to design clean contracts between backend and frontend.
  
  

Frontend-Focused Engineers

• Deep understanding of frontend state, caching, offline behavior, and storage semantics.
• Experience building rich, responsive interfaces for enterprise or operational users.
• Ability to work with cross-platform UI scaffolding for web, tablet, and desktop environments.
  
  

How You Think (the part we screen hardest for)

• You’re allergic to cargo-cult engineering and prefer reasoning from first principles.
• You default to outcome-based decisions instead of theoretical purity.
• You don’t chase platform work for its own sake—platforms should emerge from repeated need.
• You care about simplicity, legibility, and solving the right problem.
• You’re energized by a team of peers who challenge each other and move fast.
  
  

Why Join Now

You’d be joining at the moment the “next-gen SafetyChain” becomes real. You’ll influence architecture, tooling, culture, AI-assisted workflows, and the entire development model. The team will be senior, tight-knit, and design-driven. This is a rare opportunity to build a serious enterprise platform without the usual legacy ballast.