Backend Engineer (Contractor)

Senior Backend Engineer (Contractor)

Location: Remote — Eastern Europe or LATAM

Engagement: Contractor

Core Backend Development

Data and Performance

Collaboration and Delivery

Mentorship and Culture

Contractor and Location Notes

Time zone: Must consistently overlap with U.S. working hours

Core Technologies

Our Tech Stack

What We Look For

Ownership and Judgment

Communication

Mindset

Hauler Hero builds the operating system for residential and commercial waste haulers, including dispatch, routing, billing, payments, customer management, reporting, and the driver app that ties field operations together.

Our customers are private hauler owners, operators, and municipal waste leaders running essential services every day. Many are still managing their businesses through paper tickets, whiteboards, spreadsheets, disconnected systems, and legacy software. The result is missed revenue, messy routes, limited visibility, and too much time spent fighting fires instead of growing the business.

Today, we serve 240+ haulers across the country and are scaling quickly. We are a well-funded, fast-moving vertical SaaS company bringing modern software to an essential industry where the customer need is clear and the opportunity is large.

We are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and evolve the core backend services that power Hauler Hero’s platform.

This is a 100% hands-on senior individual contributor role focused on building scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems used daily by waste hauling companies across North America.

You will work closely with Product, Frontend, and Platform Engineering to ship features, improve system robustness, and continuously refactor existing services as the platform scales. This role requires strong technical judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and clear communication in a remote environment.

AI-First Backend Engineering

We are intentionally building an AI-assisted engineering organization. AI tools are part of the daily workflow, not optional.

What this means in practice:

Speed matters, but correctness, performance, and maintainability matter more.

This role is not a fit for engineers who are resistant to AI-assisted development or who rely on AI output without understanding the underlying system.