Full-stack Engineer

Full-Stack Engineer New York City HQ ᐧ Full time ᐧ On-site ᐧ R&D ᐧ $160K-$200K + meaningful equity Buying a vehicle online is pretty sweet. If you disagree, then you probably aren’t a good fit for Ekho; please return to your rock, luddite. For those remaining: the numbers support our belief. Carvana will sell a record high of 800,000 cars online in 2026 (making up around 2% of the total number of used cars sold in the US per year). Moreover, studies show that online vehicle shoppers - like Carvana buyers - report the highest satisfaction rate out of all shoppers. Pretty compelling stuff if you ask us. Thus, our conclusion: buying a vehicle online is pretty sweet. The obvious followup is ‘why don’t more vehicles get bought online’? Well, it turns out it’s pretty hard to do. Just check out your local dealership website - you’ll most likely see ‘Get My Quote’ buttons on inventory pages rather than ‘Buy Now’ buttons. The horror! To many people’s surprise, dealers don’t forgo ‘Buy Now’ buttons because they hate the idea of online sales. Quite the opposite: dealers are savvy businessmen and women who can see the success of Carvana and want to emulate their tactics. The true reason blocking the ‘buy now’ button is boring (and hard): taxes, financing, insurance, titling, and registration differ by state and county and most dealers have no reliable way to sell across state lines, so [... source excerpt omitted ...] office four days a week - nine of us engineers - with a Claude Code budget only Nadim polices. He can’t catch all of us. If this at all sounds interesting, come talk to us. What you'll be building We’ve got two primary problems to sort through at the moment. Cars - we’re aggressively growing in this vertical and we’ve got our work cut out for us. We’ve mastered powersports (motorcycles, dirt bikes, side-by-sides, atvs, etc) and are graduating to the big brother, automotive. We’ve signed some big-wig auto clients who are onboarding shortly and will introduce a step-function change in automotive volume on the Ekho platform over the next 6 months. Top of mind projects to suppo [... source excerpt omitted ...] ding our AI-driven titling and registration protocols, fleshing out our notification service to be multi-modal and more configurable, greatly expanding our trade-in functionality, productionizing lease support, and much more. We’ve got a 12 month roadmap defined. We must execute in 6. AI Sales Agent - what started as a company hackathon project has turned into the wedge product we use to get our foot in the door of a new client. The sales agent lives as a widget on dealer or manufacturer sites and can manage entire sales workflows from inventory discovery through financing pre-approvals and service appointment bookings. The widget needs to inject itself seamlessly into any third p