Software Engineer - Glid

This is a remote position.

About Glīd Technologies

Glīd Technologies is transforming first-mile logistics with autonomous road-to-rail vehicles, AI-powered logistics platforms, and human-centered workforce strategies. Our products —GliderM,EZRA-1SIX, andRāden— move goods cleaner, faster, and smarter while creating economic opportunities in the communities we serve. Founded by aU.S. Army and U.S. Air Force veteranwithSpaceXexperience, Glīd is led by a team with deep technical and operational expertise from industry leaders including Bombardier, Google, and other world-class organizations. We combine a mission-driven mindset with relentless innovation to deliver solutions that benefit both industry and people.

Key Responsibilities

We're looking for a founding engineer to join our early-stage startup as one of our first software engineers. This isn't a typical engineering role—you'll be a key architect of both our product and company culture, with the primary mission of helping us achieve our vision rapidly.

As a founding engineer, you'll wear many hats and work directly with leadership to build something people truly want. You'll have significant learning and experiences along with the opportunity to shape our technical direction from the ground up.

Your engineering decisions, technology choices, and daily priorities should be guided by one overarching goal: building a product that users love and that creates a sustainable, profitable business.

Build features, MVPs and capabilities rapidly using strong development practices.

Lead engineering decisions that balance speed of development and engineering excellence.

Lead technical design reviews and conversations with CTO

Balance technical debt strategically—use it tactically to accelerate development, pay it down when it blocks progress

Evolve technical architecture as product requirements become clearer through user feedback

Write high quality documentation, FAQs, and user guides.

Provide technical feasibility input before features are designed

Help leadership understand complexity and time investment for different approaches

Balance short-term feature delivery with long-term technical enablers

Make build vs. buy decisions based on core competencies and resource constraints

Requirements

Full-stack capabilities:Comfortable working across the entire stack as needed. Our tech stack includes Typescript/React/NextJS, GitHub, Python, Supabase, Vercel.

Expertise developing with AI tools like Cursor.

Ability to pick up new technologies and explore their applications independently.

Comfort with uncertainty:Thrives in ambiguous environments where requirements change rapidly

Bias for action:Prefers shipping imperfect solutions over perfect plans

Resourcefulness:Creative problem-solver who can work within c