# Senior Software Engineer

Waystation AI | Redwood City, CA (in person, 5 days/week) | Full-time Own whole product areas end to end, on a growing engineering team where something customer-visible ships every week. About Waystation CPG is a $2 trillion market in the U.S., and the manufacturers behind it still run procurement out of email and spreadsheets. Waystation turns supplier email into a structured system of record - every quote, spec, COA, and PO extracted automatically - then gives procurement, QA, and R&D a platform to compare ingredients, track certifications, and draft supplier comms on top of it. Seed-stage, venture-backed, with paying customers including national bakery, supplement, and better-for-you brands. One customer saved over $200,000 in the first three months. Led by repeat founder Ryan Caldbeck (previously CircleUp); backed by Founder Collective, Homebrew, Slow Ventures, 87 Capital, Floodgate, and SuccessVP. What you'll own Whole product areas, end to end. Supplier comparison, cert tracking, quote workflows. Backend, interface, and the follow-through after launch - not tickets. Impact you can point to. One of six engineers and growing, at a company with real customers and a market measu

- **Id**: 751826
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/waystationai-senior-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Redwood City, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-03-18T18:17:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-03-18
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T04:39:08Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 239
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3939
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Agents, Procurement & Spend Management

## Company

- **Id**: 686294
- **Name**: Waystation AI
- **Domain**: waystationai.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/waystationai>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 148000
- **Max usd**: 275000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 3667

## Technologies

- **Claude Code** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 239

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: Chinese; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T15:56:43Z
- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T20:54:44Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Filed H-1B visas in the last two years; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 6
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.227
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 238
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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