What is Cartage?
Cartage is building Wilson, an AI that coordinates freight for manufacturers and distributors—handling the tedious work of booking, tracking, and managing shipments end-to-end. Our customers range from lumber mills to furniture manufacturers.
With Wilson, teams can offload their entire logistics function and scale infinitely at a fraction of the cost of a human team.
Backed by Y Combinator (S24), Paul Graham, and a $3.3M seed round, we’ve hit an inflection point in revenue growth. We closed $200K ARR in 3 hours earlier this month and are scaling the team to meet accelerating demand.
This is a rare opportunity to build foundational systems that will define the future of how goods move. As a Full Stack Engineer, you’ll work side-by-side with the founders and take ownership of critical infrastructure, architecture, and AI design decisions from day one.
Our Culture
Cartage is a startup for builders who want full ownership. No PMs. No middle managers. Engineers own the customer experience end-to-end—from “what should we build?” to “it’s live and customers love it.”
Our Core Values:
Taste: Companies win on taste. Engineering is a creative discipline—part logic, part art—and we care deeply about how things feel, how they’re named, and how they scale. We sweat the small stuff because it compounds.
Extreme Ownership: Everyone runs their domain like a founder. You own problems end-to-end. No handoffs, no waiting—just clear goals and the autonomy to build.
Radical Transparency: You’ll see everything—from product decisions to monthly investor updates. We move faster when everyone has full context.
We’re an in-person team in San Francisco, CA and Vancouver, BC, and believe deeply in building together in real life.
What You’ll Do
Build autonomous agents: Design and scale AI systems that can reliably automate complex, data-intensive workflows—handling everything from quoting to tracking—so customers can fully offload their logistics.
Automate AI evaluation loops: Own the tooling to monitor, evaluate, and retrain AI models in production—ensuring performance improves automatically as new edge cases arise.
Own the product: You won’t get a Linear ticket—you’ll get a problem and talk to the customer directly. You’ll design the solution, write the code, and ship it.
Integrate everywhere customers work: Build deep integrations across enterprise systems (SAP, Oracle, ERPs, TMSs), messaging platforms (Slack, Teams), and browser automation—so Wilson fits seamlessly into any workflow.
Who You Are
Builder at heart: You don’t just write code—you build products. You think in terms of customer impact, not just technical elegance. You take pride in shipping real things that solve real problems.
High-agency problem solver: You don’t wait for direction. You move fast through ambiguity, seek clarity on your own, and hop on the phone with customers to get to the root of issues and solve them directly.
Full-stack executor: You get handed a problem like “get this customer live,” and do whatever it takes—build the UI, extend the API, fine-tune the agent—to make it happen.
Preferred Experience
3+ years of professional software development with a proven track record of building and scaling production systems.
YC startup background—you’ve thrived in fast-paced, zero-to-one environments where speed and ownership matter most.
Agentic applications—experience designing or building AI systems that act autonomously, adapt to context, and improve through feedback loops.
What We Offer
Meaningful equity – 0.5% - 2% ownership as an early team member
Competitive salary – $150K - $250K depending on experience
Full health/dental/vision – 100% covered
High trust, high ownership environment – Zero micromanagement
A real shot at something big – Help define the future of AI in logistics