Software Engineer (Platform)

At Toma, we’re building something unorthodox—a fully AI-driven workforce for the $2T automotive space.

Our small team (from Scale AI/Uber, Braze, Columbia, Berkeley, and Waterloo) spent months living and breathing dealerships to learn the ropes.

We’ve built an in-house voice AI and agentic workflow orchestration platform, grown $100k ARR MoM purely through word-of-mouth, and raised capital from the best of the best investors in Silicon Valley on our way to create the world’s first “ghost dealerships.”

We are seeking a Platform Engineer with experience in scaling infrastructure for high-growth companies to own our infrastructure, model deployments, vendor relationships, and compliance initiatives.

• Owning our deployments on AWS, Porter, and various ML providers

• Architecting, building, and deploying improvements to our stack

• Deploying and maintaining self-hosted LLMs and other ML models

• Engaging with software vendors and forming long-term partnerships

• Maintaining our SOC 2 compliance process and leading compliance meetings and initiatives

• Scoping complex solutions for applications that don’t really exist yet, like legacy dealership computer operators

• Improving monitoring and on-call procedures

• A track record of excellence throughout your career

• Exceptional understanding of infrastructure and backend systems

• Exceptional coding skills and the ability to ship high-quality code daily

• Strong problem ownership and drive

• Experience in planning, architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining applications at scale

• Passion and guts for talking to (and getting roasted by) customers

• Great understanding of operating systems and distributed systems

• Proficiency in TypeScript, Bun, low-level Node.js, T3 Stack (Next.js, React, Prisma, PostgreSQL, NextAuth, tRPC), Python

• Experience scaling a small startup to millions of users

• Familarity with SOC 2 compliance process

• Aptitude for prompt engineering

• Former founding or critical leadership experience

• Free lunch and dinner in the office

• Free health and dental insurance

• Free trips around the country for customer visits

• Monthly $200 wellness benefit