Work at Blissway: Opportunity for Impact Every Day 🚀✨
Blissway is a startup that simplifies toll collection and dramatically improves highway safety. We are multiple startups in one: Deep Tech, AI/ML, Hardware, SaaS, and IoT. For the past five years, we have built a nearly insurmountable technological lead in tolling, a roughly $200B global industry expected to double in the next decade. We work for toll authorities and state DOTs, and we own the whole system, from the roadside camera to the final bill, so every vehicle we see becomes one accurate toll transaction and nothing more. While our competitors have thousands of employees, we operate with a lean but growing team of less than 30. Our impact is visible on the massive Interstate Highway System connecting every major US metro (except Juneau, AK—sorry, Juneau).
You are a good fit if...
You love the grind: You take ownership and put in the time to meet deadlines. Our recent team survey showed an average of 55 hours/week, with occasional 70+ hour bursts for major releases.
You are detail obsessed: You have experience writing code, designing or building systems that stands up to the unpredictability of the physical world, where the small details are the difference between success and failure.
You are adaptable: We are a lean team. If you only want to work on a \"niche thing\" or are uncomfortable helping other teams when they need a boost, this isn't the place for you. We expect you to figure out what you need to get stuff done.
You're not afraid to code: This is a hardware-centered role but most of our teammates have broad skillsets that allow them to build what they need, including code to help make our hardware more effective. At minimum you should be comfortable sketching what you need and collaborating with software engineers to build it. We mostly use Python, but we don’t care what you’re most proficient in today as long as you learn fast.
You value working together in person: You’re excited to work alongside the team at our Denver office. This role is in-office five days a week, Monday through Friday, with flexibility to work remotely occasionally when needed.
The Mission: From Theory to High-Traffic Reality At a team of less than 30, we don't have \"junior\" tasks. You will be given immediate ownership over the hardware that keeps the Interstate Highway System running. You will use the basics of electrical, mechanical, and software engineering to:
Optimize the Edge: Improve the reliability of cameras, detectors, and night-time illuminators that survive 24/7 exposure.
Prototyping & R&D: Design circuit schematics and PCBs for new hardware integrations that push our device performance further.
Full-Stack Hardware: Write the on-device code (Python/C++) to integrate new sensors and ensure the servers can handle the incoming data.
Build for Scale: Iterate on CAD models to make our assembly process faster and more robust.
Education: Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (Class of 2025 or 2026). We are open to 2027 grads but may run those applications through a separate cohort.
Portfolio of \"Things\": A track record of actually building physical hardware. Whether it’s high-impact internships, senior design projects, or a workbench full of hobbyist electronics (Raspberry Pi, ESP32, custom PCBs), we want to see what you’ve brought to life.
Technical Versatility: You have a foundational understanding of circuit design and CAD, but you aren't afraid to write code. You should be comfortable (or eager to become comfortable) in Python or C++ to make your hardware talk to our software.
Mindset: You take extreme ownership. You don't wait for a manual or a step-by-step guide; you figure out what you need to get stuff done and you do it with a professional, collaborative mentality. You understand that in a small team feedback is the fastest way to level up, and you welcome it.
Our Technical Ecosystem: While we value problem-solving over specific syntax, skills that transfer well are:
Languages: Python, TypeScript, C/C++
Tools: Altium, Onshape, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers
Infrastructure: Linux, IoT Edge Devices, AWS
Specialties: Edge Computer Vision, CAD, weatherproofing, outdoor deployment, vertical product integration
The Interview Process
We're a selectively small team, which means a deliberate and thorough interview process with 3-4 interviews and a final paid work trial. In exchange, you get real autonomy from day one, direct access to the people setting technical direction, and work that ships to roads in weeks, not quarters.
The Essentials (Health & Wealth)
Relocation Support: We are excited for you to join the team at our engineering office in Denver. We value in-person collaboration and daily team lunches and we provide a relocation bonus to help you get here.
Personalized Health Coverage (ICHRA): We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all healthcare. We provide a monthly allowance for you and dependents so you can choose the individual plan that actually fits your life.
Investing in Your Future: 401(k) matching up to 4%.
Peace of Mind: Transparent compensation. Company-sponsored life & disability insurance.
Early Stage Equity: Competitive equity package. Every year, we facilitate a tender process that gives you the opportunity to sell your vested shares at the same valuation as our investors.
Rest & Recharge 🌴
High-Trust Time Off: 4 weeks of untracked PTO. We don't micromanage your calendar; we focus on your impact. Take the time you need to stay sharp and inspired.
Family First: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for birth and adoptive parents. We want you present for the moments that matter most.
The Deep Breath (Sabbatical): Every 5 years, take 12 weeks of fully paid leave. Go travel, write a book, or master a new hobby—then come back and tell us all about it.
Fuel & Community 😀
The Blissway Kitchen: Whether it’s breakfast to start your day or our daily group lunches, we keep the team fueled.
Snacks Autonomy: Our kitchen is fully stocked and we mean it—if we’re missing your favorite fuel, just add it to the request list.
The \"BlissTrip\": An annual 4-day getaway for the team and significant others.
Monthly Beats: Game nights, escape rooms, and dinners to celebrate the grit we put in.
Continuous Learning: Tuition reimbursement for courses, programs, and conferences that sharpen your craft.
Work at Blissway: Opportunity for Impact Every Day 🚀✨
Blissway is a startup that simplifies toll collection and dramatically improves highway safety. We are multiple startups in one: Deep Tech, AI/ML, Hardware, SaaS, and IoT. For the past five years, we have built a nearly insurmountable technological lead in tolling, a roughly $200B global industry expected to double in the next decade. We work for toll authorities and state DOTs, and we own the whole system, from the roadside camera to the final bill, so every vehicle we see becomes one accurate toll transaction and nothing more. While our competitors have thousands of employees, we operate with a lean but growing team of less than 30. Our impact is visible on the massive Interstate Highway System connecting every major US metro (except Juneau, AK—sorry, Juneau).
You are a good fit if...
You love the grind: You take ownership and put in the time to meet deadlines. Our recent team survey showed an average of 55 hours/week, with occasional 70+ hour bursts for major releases.
You are detail obsessed: You have experience writing code, designing or building systems that stands up to the unpredictability of the physical world, where the small details are the difference between success and failure.
You are adaptable: We are a lean team. If you only want to work on a \"niche thing\" or are uncomfortable helping other teams when they need a boost, this isn't the place for you. We expect you to figure out what you need to get stuff done.
You code really well: We mostly use Python and TypeScript, but we don’t care what you’re most proficient in today—as long as you learn fast.
You value working together in person: You’re excited to work alongside the team at our Denver office. This role is in-office on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with flexibility to work remotely on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The Mission: Forget the \"shadowing\" and the \"simulated projects.\" At Blissway, you will be given real ownership from Week 1. You are a high-level individual contributor who can navigate any part of the Blissway stack.
Ship Production Code: Contribute to the \"Secret Sauce\" that identifies millions of cars daily.
Drive 1-to-100 Scaling: Take proven prototypes and turn them into robust, high-volume systems.
Edge-to-Cloud Logic: Write software that lives on roadside hardware and the servers that process its data.
Rapid Prototyping: Work alongside brilliant engineers to integrate ML models that improve highway safety in real-time.
Total Fluidity: Thrive in an environment where you might move from ML models to hardware glitch detection in the same week.
Education: Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
Portfolio: A track record of building things—be it side projects, or open-source contributions.
Mindset: You are excited to work at a startup and be part of a core engineering team. You don't wait for a manual or a step-by-step guide; you figure out what you need to get stuff done and you do it with a professional, \"owner\" mentality. You understand that in a small team, feedback is the fastest way to level up and you welcome it.
Our Technical Ecosystem: While we value problem-solving over specific syntax, skills that transfer well are:
Languages: Typescript, Python, C++
Frameworks and Tools: Node.js, Express, NestJS, Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS
Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Linux, IoT Edge Devices
Specialties: Computer Vision (OpenCV), ML Integration, Payment Processing
The Interview Process
We're a selectively small team, which means a deliberate and thorough interview process with 3-4 interviews and a final paid work trial. In exchange, you get real autonomy from day one, direct access to the people setting technical direction, and work that ships to roads in weeks, not quarters.
The Essentials (Health & Wealth)
Relocation Support: We are excited for you to join the team at our engineering office in Denver. We value in-person collaboration and daily team lunches and we provide a relocation bonus to help you get here.
Personalized Health Coverage (ICHRA): We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all healthcare. We provide a monthly allowance for you and dependents so you can choose the individual plan that actually fits your life.
Investing in Your Future: 401(k) matching up to 4%.
Peace of Mind: Transparent compensation. Company-sponsored life & disability insurance.
Early Stage Equity: Competitive equity package. Every year, we facilitate a tender process that gives you the opportunity to sell your vested shares at the same valuation as our investors.
Rest & Recharge 🌴
High-Trust Time Off: 4 weeks of untracked PTO. We don't micromanage your calendar; we focus on your impact. Take the time you need to stay sharp and inspired.
Family First: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for birth and adoptive parents. We want you present for the moments that matter most.
The Deep Breath (Sabbatical): Every 5 years, take 12 weeks of fully paid leave. Go travel, write a book, or master a new hobby—then come back and tell us all about it.
Fuel & Community 😀
The Blissway Kitchen: Whether it’s breakfast to start your day or our daily group lunches, we keep the team fueled.
Snacks Autonomy: Our kitchen is fully stocked and we mean it—if we’re missing your favorite fuel, just add it to the request list.
The \"BlissTrip\": An annual 4-day getaway for the team and significant others.
Monthly Beats: Game nights, escape rooms, and dinners to celebrate the grit we put in.
Continuous Learning: Tuition reimbursement for courses, programs, and conferences that sharpen your craft.
Work at Blissway: Opportunity for Impact Every Day 🚀✨
Blissway is a startup that simplifies toll collection and dramatically improves highway safety. We are multiple startups in one: Deep Tech, AI/ML, Hardware, SaaS, and IoT. For the past five years, we have built a nearly insurmountable technological lead in tolling, a roughly $200B global industry expected to double in the next decade. We work for toll authorities and state DOTs, and we own the whole system, from the roadside camera to the final bill, so every vehicle we see becomes one accurate toll transaction and nothing more. While our competitors have thousands of employees, we operate with a lean but growing team of less than 30. Our impact is visible on the massive Interstate Highway System connecting every major US metro (except Juneau, AK—sorry, Juneau).
You are a good fit if...
You love the grind: You take ownership and put in the time to meet deadlines. Our recent team survey showed an average of 55 hours/week, with occasional 70+ hour bursts for major releases.
You are detail obsessed: You have experience writing code, designing or building systems that stands up to the unpredictability of the physical world, where the small details are the difference between success and failure.
You are adaptable: We are a lean team. If you only want to work on a \"niche thing\" or are uncomfortable helping other teams when they need a boost, this isn't the place for you. We expect you to figure out what you need to get stuff done.
You're at home with hardware or code: Our Embedded team prototypes rapidly so teammates need to be equally comfortable with hardware and coding. We mostly use Python, but we don’t care what you’re most proficient in today—as long as you learn fast. If you lean hardware, check out our Electrical Engineer, Hardware, or Operations team postings. If you lean toward coding, check out our Software Engineer postings. If you love both, you're in the right spot.
You value working together in person: You’re excited to work alongside the team at our Denver office. This role is in-office five days a week, Monday through Friday, with flexibility to work remotely occasionally when needed.
The Mission: Our technological lead is built on hardware that simply doesn't fail. You are responsible for ensuring our roadside systems—solar power generation, cell connectivity, and high-speed sensors—operate with 99.99% reliability in the harshest environments.
Hardening the System: Deep-dive into the reliability of our power systems and connectivity, ensuring our \"secret sauce\" remains insurmountable.
End-to-End Design: Own the development of schematics, PCBs, housing, and cabling solutions for next-generation hardware.
Manufacturing Evolution: Lead design iterations in CAD to improve the assembly yield and long-term serviceability of our devices.
Hardware-Software Synthesis: Write the code that lives on the edge. You understand the friction between a sensor's physical limitations and the software's requirements.
Education: MS or BS in Electrical Engineering, Robotics or a related technical field.
Experience: You have built physical hardware. Whether at work or as a hobbyist (Raspberry Pi, ESP32, custom PCBs) we want to see what you’ve brought to life.
Technical Versatility: You have a foundational understanding of circuit design and CAD, and you aren't afraid to write code. You should be comfortable in (or excited to learn) Python or C++ to make your hardware talk to our software.
Mindset: You are excited to work at a startup and be part of a core engineering team. You don't wait for a manual or a step-by-step guide; you figure out what you need to get stuff done and you do it with a professional, \"owner\" mentality. You understand that in a small team, feedback is the fastest way to level up and you welcome it.
Our Technical Ecosystem: While we value problem-solving over specific syntax, skills that transfer well are:
Languages: Python, TypeScript, C++
Tools: Altium, Onshape, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers
Infrastructure: Linux, IoT Edge Devices, AWS
Specialties: On-edge Computer Vision, CAD, weatherproofing, outdoor deployment, vertical product integration
The Interview Process
We're a selectively small team, which means a deliberate and thorough interview process with 3-4 interviews and a final paid work trial. In exchange, you get real autonomy from day one, direct access to the people setting technical direction, and work that ships to roads in weeks, not quarters.
The Essentials (Health & Wealth)
Relocation Support: We are excited for you to join the team at our engineering office in Denver. We value in-person collaboration and daily team lunches and we provide a relocation bonus to help you get here.
Personalized Health Coverage (ICHRA): We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all healthcare. We provide a monthly allowance for you and dependents so you can choose the individual plan that actually fits your life.
Investing in Your Future: 401(k) matching up to 4%.
Peace of Mind: Transparent compensation. Company-sponsored life & disability insurance.
Early Stage Equity: Competitive equity package. Every year, we facilitate a tender process that gives you the opportunity to sell your vested shares at the same valuation as our investors.
Rest & Recharge 🌴
High-Trust Time Off: 4 weeks of untracked PTO. We don't micromanage your calendar; we focus on your impact. Take the time you need to stay sharp and inspired.
Family First: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for birth and adoptive parents. We want you present for the moments that matter most.
The Deep Breath (Sabbatical): Every 5 years, take 12 weeks of fully paid leave. Go travel, write a book, or master a new hobby—then come back and tell us all about it.
Fuel & Community 😀
The Blissway Kitchen: Whether it’s breakfast to start your day or our daily group lunches, we keep the team fueled.
Snacks Autonomy: Our kitchen is fully stocked and we mean it—if we’re missing your favorite fuel, just add it to the request list.
The \"BlissTrip\": An annual 4-day getaway for the team and significant others.
Monthly Beats: Game nights, escape rooms, and dinners to celebrate the grit we put in.
Continuous Learning: Tuition reimbursement for courses, programs, and conferences that sharpen your craft.
Work at Blissway: Opportunity for Impact Every Day 🚀✨
Blissway is a startup that simplifies toll collection and dramatically improves highway safety. We are multiple startups in one: Deep Tech, AI/ML, Hardware, SaaS, and IoT. For the past five years, we have built a nearly insurmountable technological lead in tolling, a roughly $200B global industry expected to double in the next decade. We work for toll authorities and state DOTs, and we own the whole system, from the roadside camera to the final bill, so every vehicle we see becomes one accurate toll transaction and nothing more. While our competitors have thousands of employees, we operate with a lean but growing team of less than 30. Our impact is visible on the massive Interstate Highway System connecting every major US metro (except Juneau, AK—sorry, Juneau).
You are a good fit if...
You love the grind: You take ownership and put in the time to meet deadlines. Our recent team survey showed an average of 55 hours/week, with occasional 70+ hour bursts for major releases.
You are detail obsessed: You have experience writing code, designing or building systems that stands up to the unpredictability of the physical world, where the small details are the difference between success and failure.
You are adaptable: We are a lean team. If you only want to work on a \"niche thing\" or are uncomfortable helping other teams when they need a boost, this isn't the place for you. We expect you to figure out what you need to get stuff done.
You're not afraid to code: This is a hardware-centered role but most of our teammates have broad skillsets that allow them to build what they need, including code to help make our hardware more effective. At minimum you should be comfortable sketching what you need and collaborating with software engineers to build it. We mostly use Python, but we don’t care what you’re most proficient in today as long as you learn fast.
You value working together in person: You’re excited to work alongside the team at our Denver office. This role is in-office five days a week, Monday through Friday, with flexibility to work remotely occasionally when needed.
The Mission: Our Electrical Engineers are designing the next generation of Blissway's hardware. As the team grows, we are looking to add someone strong enough to own a full PCB design end-to-end. Review designs, push back when something could be better, and bring the kind of process discipline that only comes from shipping real hardware at scale. This isn't a junior engineer; it's a design partner. You'll own boards from concept through field deployment, and you'll be expected to catch each other's mistakes.
Collaborate with software, and manufacturing teams — and know how to coordinate across those boundaries without creating gaps
Contribute to Blissway's transition from rapid-prototyping mode to structured, repeatable product development
2+ years of actually building physical hardware. Whether at work or as a hobbyist (Raspberry Pi, ESP32, custom PCBs) we want to see what you’ve brought to life.
PCB Design: you understand the principles of design, from schematic capture to layout. We use Altium but understand that the underlying knowledge is what is important, not the tool's brand.
End-to-end PCB design ownership: aside from design principles, you have real experience taking boards from raw ideas to manufactured and tested hardware, including the software or firmware required.
Hardware debugging fluency: e.g., oscilloscope, logic analyzer, power analyzer in real conditions, not just in school or the lab
Experience designing for reliability: thermal management, power integrity, signal integrity, field environment constraints
Communication protocols at the hardware level: SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, CAN
Documentation discipline: test plans, manufacturing procedures, design review artifacts
Differentiators
Experience with product lifecycle management: moving a design from prototype through production release
Exposure to environmental and climatic chamber testing: understanding what 'designed for the field' actually requires
Power systems design: solar, battery management, DC-DC conversion for always-on hardware
IoT or edge device experience: hardware that lives unattended in the real world
Experience supporting manufacturing teams and writing documentation for non-engineers
CAD tools for enclosure and mechanical integration work
Embedded C/C++ or Python for test automation
Our Technical Ecosystem: While we value problem-solving over specific syntax, skills that transfer well are:
Languages: Python, C/C++
Tools: Altium, Onshape, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers
Infrastructure: Linux, IoT Edge Devices, AWS
Specialties: Edge Computer Vision, CAD, weatherproofing, outdoor deployment, vertical product integration
Education: MS or BS in Electrical Engineering
Mindset: You are excited to work at a startup and be part of a core engineering team. You don't wait for a manual or a step-by-step guide; you figure out what you need to get stuff done and you do it with a professional, \"owner\" mentality. You understand that in a small team, feedback is the fastest way to level up and you welcome it.
The Interview Process
We're a selectively small team, which means a deliberate and thorough interview process with 3-4 interviews and a final paid work trial. In exchange, you get real autonomy from day one, direct access to the people setting technical direction, and work that ships to roads in weeks, not quarters.
The Essentials (Health & Wealth)
Relocation Support: We are excited for you to join the team at our engineering office in Denver. We value in-person collaboration and daily team lunches and we provide a relocation bonus to help you get here.
Personalized Health Coverage (ICHRA): We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all healthcare. We provide a monthly allowance for you and dependents so you can choose the individual plan that actually fits your life.
Investing in Your Future: 401(k) matching up to 4%.
Peace of Mind: Transparent compensation. Company-sponsored life & disability insurance.
Early Stage Equity: Competitive equity package. Every year, we facilitate a tender process that gives you the opportunity to sell your vested shares at the same valuation as our investors.
Rest & Recharge 🌴
High-Trust Time Off: 4 weeks of untracked PTO. We don't micromanage your calendar; we focus on your impact. Take the time you need to stay sharp and inspired.
Family First: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for birth and adoptive parents. We want you present for the moments that matter most.
The Deep Breath (Sabbatical): Every 5 years, take 12 weeks of fully paid leave. Go travel, write a book, or master a new hobby—then come back and tell us all about it.
Fuel & Community 😀
The Blissway Kitchen: Whether it’s breakfast to start your day or our daily group lunches, we keep the team fueled.
Snacks Autonomy: Our kitchen is fully stocked and we mean it—if we’re missing your favorite fuel, just add it to the request list.
The \"BlissTrip\": An annual 4-day getaway for the team and significant others.
Monthly Beats: Game nights, escape rooms, and dinners to celebrate the grit we put in.
Continuous Learning: Tuition reimbursement for courses, programs, and conferences that sharpen your craft.
Work at Blissway: Opportunity for Impact Every Day 🚀✨
Blissway is a startup that simplifies toll collection and dramatically improves highway safety. We are multiple startups in one: Deep Tech, AI/ML, Hardware, SaaS, and IoT. For the past five years, we have built a nearly insurmountable technological lead in tolling, a roughly $200B global industry expected to double in the next decade. We work for toll authorities and state DOTs, and we own the whole system, from the roadside camera to the final bill, so every vehicle we see becomes one accurate toll transaction and nothing more. While our competitors have thousands of employees, we operate with a lean but growing team of less than 30. Our impact is visible on the massive Interstate Highway System connecting every major US metro (except Juneau, AK—sorry, Juneau).
You are a good fit if...
You love the grind: You take ownership and put in the time to meet deadlines. Our recent team survey showed an average of 55 hours/week, with occasional 70+ hour bursts for major releases.
You are detail obsessed: You have experience writing code, designing or building systems that stands up to the unpredictability of the physical world, where the small details are the difference between success and failure.
You are adaptable: We are a lean team. If you only want to work on a \"niche thing\" or are uncomfortable helping other teams when they need a boost, this isn't the place for you. We expect you to figure out what you need to get stuff done.
You code really well: We mostly use Python and TypeScript, but we don’t care what you’re most proficient in today—as long as you learn fast.
You value working together in person: You’re excited to work alongside the team at our Denver office. This role is in-office on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with flexibility to work remotely on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The Mission: Every image on our system has one job: complete an accurate toll transaction through our billing system. Your job is making that transaction more accurate. We process 11 million images a day, using detection, segmentation, classification, embeddings, and re-identification to match each vehicle to its toll. You'll find where our models fall short, decide what to fix first, and build the fix, from dataset curation to custom state-of-the-art architectures. This role is for the engineer who reads a new paper and immediately wants to know if it works in the real world.
The Work
Own the Model: Data collection, dataset curation, design, training, and evaluation. Your job is making sure the model is correct, working closely with our MLOps Engineer to get it to production.
Vision at Real Scale: 11 million images a day across vehicles, license plates, axles (so we classify each vehicle correctly), and lane markings. At this volume, the right model can drastically improve accuracy and cut cost at the same time.
Classical CV to Custom SOTA: Our toolbox spans traditional computer vision algorithms through custom-trained state-of-the-art models. You pick the right tool, and if nothing off the shelf is good enough, you design and train your own.
Build the Best Models That Exist: We read the papers, go to the conferences, and hold our work to the current frontier. ML has become essential to Blissway over the past year, and this team is where that bet gets made real.
Real Hardware in the Real World: We own the devices in the field, so any idea you have can be built and tested on real roads.
Small, Fast, Accurate: As we push inference onto roadside hardware, you'll design models that are fast, small, and power-efficient without giving up accuracy.
How We Handle Data: We work only for toll authorities and state DOTs, on legislatively authorized toll roads. The laws governing our work prohibit keeping data unless it's used to charge a toll. There is no search-by-plate interface, no cross-agency lookup network, and no standing law enforcement access. Data leaves our system only through the same legal process that applies to any company's billing records.
Requirements
Experience: 2 to 6 years of software engineering with a focus on computer vision, or a recent PhD or master's with research in computer vision or machine learning.
Real CV Depth: Experience with modern computer vision and the judgment to know when a classical technique beats a heavy model. You're not reaching for a transformer when a filter will do.
Hands-On Training: You've trained, fine-tuned, and debugged models on real-world, custom data, not just benchmark datasets.
Strong Engineering: You write clean, production-quality code. Experience shipping models to production is a strong plus, but if you're coming from research, show us code you've built that others actually use.
Python: Fluent in Python and its ML ecosystem.
Bonus: Experience optimizing models for edge hardware, or working on vehicle detection, license plate recognition, tracking, or poor lighting and weather conditions.
The Interview Process
We're a selectively small team, which means a deliberate and thorough interview process with 3-4 interviews and a final paid work trial. In exchange, you get real autonomy from day one, direct access to the people setting technical direction, and work that ships to roads in weeks, not quarters.
The Essentials (Health & Wealth)
Relocation Support: We are excited for you to join the team at our engineering office in Denver. We value in-person collaboration and daily team lunches and we provide a relocation bonus to help you get here.
Personalized Health Coverage (ICHRA): We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all healthcare. We provide a monthly allowance for you and dependents so you can choose the individual plan that actually fits your life.
Investing in Your Future: 401(k) matching up to 4%.
Peace of Mind: Transparent compensation. Company-sponsored life & disability insurance.
Early Stage Equity: Competitive equity package. Every year, we facilitate a tender process that gives you the opportunity to sell your vested shares at the same valuation as our investors.
Rest & Recharge 🌴
High-Trust Time Off: 4 weeks of untracked PTO. We don't micromanage your calendar; we focus on your impact. Take the time you need to stay sharp and inspired.
Family First: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for birth and adoptive parents. We want you present for the moments that matter most.
The Deep Breath (Sabbatical): Every 5 years, take 12 weeks of fully paid leave. Go travel, write a book, or master a new hobby—then come back and tell us all about it.
Fuel & Community 😀
The Blissway Kitchen: Whether it’s breakfast to start your day or our daily group lunches, we keep the team fueled.
Snacks Autonomy: Our kitchen is fully stocked and we mean it—if we’re missing your favorite fuel, just add it to the request list.
The \"BlissTrip\": An annual 4-day getaway for the team and significant others.
Monthly Beats: Game nights, escape rooms, and dinners to celebrate the grit we put in.
Continuous Learning: Tuition reimbursement for courses, programs, and conferences that sharpen your craft.
Work at Blissway: Opportunity for Impact Every Day 🚀✨
Blissway is a startup that simplifies toll collection and dramatically improves highway safety. We are multiple startups in one: Deep Tech, AI/ML, Hardware, SaaS, and IoT. For the past five years, we have built a nearly insurmountable technological lead in tolling, a roughly $200B global industry expected to double in the next decade. We work for toll authorities and state DOTs, and we own the whole system, from the roadside camera to the final bill, so every vehicle we see becomes one accurate toll transaction and nothing more. While our competitors have thousands of employees, we operate with a lean but growing team of less than 30. Our impact is visible on the massive Interstate Highway System connecting every major US metro (except Juneau, AK—sorry, Juneau).
You are a good fit if...
You love the grind: You take ownership and put in the time to meet deadlines. Our recent team survey showed an average of 55 hours/week, with occasional 70+ hour bursts for major releases.
You are detail obsessed: You have experience writing code, designing or building systems that stands up to the unpredictability of the physical world, where the small details are the difference between success and failure.
You are adaptable: We are a lean team. If you only want to work on a \"niche thing\" or are uncomfortable helping other teams when they need a boost, this isn't the place for you. We expect you to figure out what you need to get stuff done.
You code really well: We mostly use Python and TypeScript, but we don’t care what you’re most proficient in today—as long as you learn fast.
You value working together in person: You’re excited to work alongside the team at our Denver office. This role is in-office on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with flexibility to work remotely on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The Mission: Every image on our system has one job: completing an accurate toll transaction through a billing system we run end to end. You are the engineer who ships the model, not just the one who trains it. We process 11 million images every single day, running detection, segmentation, classification, embeddings, and re-identification to match each vehicle to its toll. You will own the full arc: raw sensor data to production inference, dataset curation to deployment monitoring, cloud to edge. This role is for the engineer who sees a model sitting in a notebook and feels the itch to put it to the test, or in this case, on the road.
The Work
Own the Whole Pipeline: You decide which problems are worth solving, then take them from raw sensor data all the way to production: collection, dataset curation, training, deployment, monitoring, and iteration. We wire it all together and run our own servers, so the pipeline is yours end to end.
Real Hardware in the Real World: We own the devices in the field. This means any idea you have can actually get built and tested on real roads.
Vision at Real Scale: We process 11 million images every single day, running detection, segmentation, classification, embeddings, and re-identification across everything in the frame: vehicles, license plates, wheels, even lane markings. Beyond images, we have multiple other sensors on the road pulling in different data making the problem space wide open. At this volume, the right model can drastically improve accuracy and cut cost at the same time.
Classical CV to Custom SOTA: Our toolbox spans the full range, from traditional computer vision algorithms to custom-trained state-of-the-art models (detection, segmentation, embeddings, classifiers). You pick the right tool, and when nothing off-the-shelf is good enough, you train your own.
Build the Best Models That Exist: We read the papers, go to the conferences, and hold our work to the current frontier. ML has become essential to Blissway over the past year, and this team is where that bet gets made real.
Edge and Cloud: Most of our compute lives in the cloud where power is effectively unlimited. We're now pushing more inference onto the roadside hardware itself, a completely different problem: the models have to be fast, small, and power-efficient without giving up accuracy. You'll work both sides of that constraint.
How We Handle Data: We work only for toll authorities and state DOTs, on legislatively authorized toll roads. The laws governing our work prohibit keeping data unless it's used to charge a toll. There is no search-by-plate interface, no cross-agency lookup network, and no standing law enforcement access. Data leaves our system only through the same legal process that applies to any company's billing records.
Requirements
Experience: 2 to 6 years of full-time software engineering experience with a focus on machine learning and/or computer vision. We want someone with true end-to-end experience: you've taken models from raw data to production and owned what happens after they ship.
Both Sides: Strong software engineering fundamentals plus hands-on ML. You write production-quality code and you train and debug models. The two overlap, and we want someone comfortable across both.
Full Lifecycle: You've owned models beyond the notebook: trained, deployed, monitored, and iterated in production.
Real CV depth. Experience with modern computer vision and the judgment to know when a classical technique beats a heavy model. You're not reaching for a transformer when a filter will do.
The Interview Process
We're a selectively small team, which means a deliberate and thorough interview process with 3-4 interviews and a final paid work trial. In exchange, you get real autonomy from day one, direct access to the people setting technical direction, and work that ships to roads in weeks, not quarters.
The Essentials (Health & Wealth)
Relocation Support: We are excited for you to join the team at our engineering office in Denver. We value in-person collaboration and daily team lunches and we provide a relocation bonus to help you get here.
Personalized Health Coverage (ICHRA): We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all healthcare. We provide a monthly allowance for you and dependents so you can choose the individual plan that actually fits your life.
Investing in Your Future: 401(k) matching up to 4%.
Peace of Mind: Transparent compensation. Company-sponsored life & disability insurance.
Early Stage Equity: Competitive equity package. Every year, we facilitate a tender process that gives you the opportunity to sell your vested shares at the same valuation as our investors.
Rest & Recharge 🌴
High-Trust Time Off: 4 weeks of untracked PTO. We don't micromanage your calendar; we focus on your impact. Take the time you need to stay sharp and inspired.
Family First: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for birth and adoptive parents. We want you present for the moments that matter most.
The Deep Breath (Sabbatical): Every 5 years, take 12 weeks of fully paid leave. Go travel, write a book, or master a new hobby—then come back and tell us all about it.
Fuel & Community 😀
The Blissway Kitchen: Whether it’s breakfast to start your day or our daily group lunches, we keep the team fueled.
Snacks Autonomy: Our kitchen is fully stocked and we mean it—if we’re missing your favorite fuel, just add it to the request list.
The \"BlissTrip\": An annual 4-day getaway for the team and significant others.
Monthly Beats: Game nights, escape rooms, and dinners to celebrate the grit we put in.
Continuous Learning: Tuition reimbursement for courses, programs, and conferences that sharpen your craft.
Work at Blissway: Opportunity for Impact Every Day 🚀✨
Blissway is a startup that simplifies toll collection and dramatically improves highway safety. We are multiple startups in one: Deep Tech, AI/ML, Hardware, SaaS, and IoT. For the past five years, we have built a nearly insurmountable technological lead in tolling, a roughly $200B global industry expected to double in the next decade. We work for toll authorities and state DOTs, and we own the whole system, from the roadside camera to the final bill, so every vehicle we see becomes one accurate toll transaction and nothing more. While our competitors have thousands of employees, we operate with a lean but growing team of less than 30. Our impact is visible on the massive Interstate Highway System connecting every major US metro (except Juneau, AK—sorry, Juneau).
You are a good fit if...
You love the grind: You take ownership and put in the time to meet deadlines. Our recent team survey showed an average of 55 hours/week, with occasional 70+ hour bursts for major releases.
You are detail obsessed: You have experience writing code, designing or building systems that stands up to the unpredictability of the physical world, where the small details are the difference between success and failure.
You are adaptable: We are a lean team. If you only want to work on a \"niche thing\" or are uncomfortable helping other teams when they need a boost, this isn't the place for you. We expect you to figure out what you need to get stuff done.
You code really well: We mostly use Python and TypeScript, but we don’t care what you’re most proficient in today as long as you learn fast.
You value working together in person: You’re excited to work alongside the team at our Denver office. This role is in-office on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with flexibility to work remotely on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The Mission: You are building the platform that connects Blissway's deep-tech hardware to the drivers, partners, and government agencies we work with. That means owning both the internal systems that have to be right and the public surfaces that have to be trusted
The Work
Public Impact: You will help the software that millions of drivers use to manage their toll accounts: payments, account history, violation disputes, and communications. This has to be as secure and robust as it is intuitive. When a driver gets a toll bill, this is what they see.
Partner integrations: The Back Office team is the connective tissue between Blissway and the outside world. You'll build and maintain integrations with DMVs, mailhouses, and fleet vendors for ACH payment processing. Each integration has its own data contract, compliance constraints, and edge cases. This is early-stage work that requires both technical judgment and the ability to operate without a spec.
Platform & DevOps: Not just the connective tissue to the outside world, but the connective tissue for us as well. That includes deployment tooling, service infrastructure, and the shared standards that let a team of 25 move as fast as we do. If something is painful to stand up or run, that's your problem to fix.
Access & internal tooling: Consolidate how services authenticate and how operators manage access across all Blissway deployments, including a unified management interface for our internal teams.
Requirements
Education: Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
Portfolio: A track record of building things—be it side projects, open-source contributions, or high-impact internships.
Mindset: You take extreme ownership. You don't wait for a manual; you figure out what you need to get stuff done and you do it in a professional manner. You understand that feedback is critical to growth and you welcome it.
Experience: 2 to 6 years of software engineering on a quickly shipping team. We want someone with true end-to-end experience: you've taken products from ideation to production and owned what happens after they ship.
The Interview Process
We're a selectively small team, which means a deliberate and thorough interview process with 3-4 interviews and a final paid work trial. In exchange, you get real autonomy from day one, direct access to the people setting technical direction, and work that ships to roads in weeks, not quarters.
The Essentials (Health & Wealth)
Relocation Support: We are excited for you to join the team at our engineering office in Denver. We value in-person collaboration and daily team lunches and we provide a relocation bonus to help you get here.
Personalized Health Coverage (ICHRA): We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all healthcare. We provide a monthly allowance for you and dependents so you can choose the individual plan that actually fits your life.
Investing in Your Future: 401(k) matching up to 4%.
Peace of Mind: Transparent compensation. Company-sponsored life & disability insurance.
Early Stage Equity: Competitive equity package. Every year, we facilitate a tender process that gives you the opportunity to sell your vested shares at the same valuation as our investors.
Rest & Recharge 🌴
High-Trust Time Off: 4 weeks of untracked PTO. We don't micromanage your calendar; we focus on your impact. Take the time you need to stay sharp and inspired.
Family First: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for birth and adoptive parents. We want you present for the moments that matter most.
The Deep Breath (Sabbatical): Every 5 years, take 12 weeks of fully paid leave. Go travel, write a book, or master a new hobby—then come back and tell us all about it.
Fuel & Community 😀
The Blissway Kitchen: Whether it’s breakfast to start your day or our daily group lunches, we keep the team fueled.
Snacks Autonomy: Our kitchen is fully stocked and we mean it—if we’re missing your favorite fuel, just add it to the request list.
The \"BlissTrip\": An annual 4-day getaway for the team and significant others.
Monthly Beats: Game nights, escape rooms, and dinners to celebrate the grit we put in.
Continuous Learning: Tuition reimbursement for courses, programs, and conferences that sharpen your craft.
Work at Blissway: Opportunity for Impact Every Day 🚀✨
Blissway is a startup that simplifies toll collection and dramatically improves highway safety. We are multiple startups in one: Deep Tech, AI/ML, Hardware, SaaS, and IoT. For the past five years, we have built a nearly insurmountable technological lead in tolling, a roughly $200B global industry expected to double in the next decade. We work for toll authorities and state DOTs, and we own the whole system, from the roadside camera to the final bill, so every vehicle we see becomes one accurate toll transaction and nothing more. While our competitors have thousands of employees, we operate with a lean but growing team of less than 30. Our impact is visible on the massive Interstate Highway System connecting every major US metro (except Juneau, AK—sorry, Juneau).
You are a good fit if...
You love the grind: You take ownership and put in the time to meet deadlines. Our recent team survey showed an average of 55 hours/week, with occasional 70+ hour bursts for major releases.
You are detail obsessed: You have experience writing code, designing or building systems that stands up to the unpredictability of the physical world, where the small details are the difference between success and failure.
You are adaptable: We are a lean team. If you only want to work on a \"niche thing\" or are uncomfortable helping other teams when they need a boost, this isn't the place for you. We expect you to figure out what you need to get stuff done.
You're not afraid to code: This is a hardware-centered role but most of our teammates have broad skillsets that allow them to build what they need, including code to help make our hardware more effective. At minimum you should be comfortable sketching what you need and collaborating with software engineers to build it. We mostly use Python, but we don’t care what you’re most proficient in today as long as you learn fast.
You value working together in person: You’re excited to work alongside the team at our Denver office. This role is in-office five days a week, Monday through Friday, with flexibility to work remotely occasionally when needed.
The Mission: From Theory to High-Traffic Reality At a team of less than 30, we don't have \"junior\" tasks. You will be given immediate ownership over the hardware that keeps the Interstate Highway System running. You will use the basics of electrical, mechanical, and software engineering to:
Optimize the Edge: Improve the reliability of cameras, detectors, and night-time illuminators that survive 24/7 exposure.
Prototyping & R&D: Design circuit schematics and PCBs for new hardware integrations that push our device performance further.
Full-Stack Hardware: Write the on-device code (Python/C++) to integrate new sensors and ensure the servers can handle the incoming data.
Build for Scale: Iterate on CAD models to make our assembly process faster and more robust.
Education: Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field. We are open to 2027 grads but may run those applications through a separate cohort.
Portfolio of \"Things\": A track record of actually building physical hardware. Whether it’s high-impact internships, senior design projects, or a workbench full of hobbyist electronics (Raspberry Pi, ESP32, custom PCBs), we want to see what you’ve brought to life.
Technical Versatility: You have a foundational understanding of circuit design and CAD, but you aren't afraid to write code. You should be comfortable (or eager to become comfortable) in Python or C++ to make your hardware talk to our software.
Mindset: You take extreme ownership. You don't wait for a manual or a step-by-step guide; you figure out what you need to get stuff done and you do it with a professional, collaborative mentality. You understand that in a small team feedback is the fastest way to level up, and you welcome it.
Our Technical Ecosystem: While we value problem-solving over specific syntax, skills that transfer well are:
Languages: Python, TypeScript, C/C++
Tools: Altium, Onshape, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers
Infrastructure: Linux, IoT Edge Devices, AWS
Specialties: Edge Computer Vision, CAD, weatherproofing, outdoor deployment, vertical product integration
The Interview Process
We're a selectively small team, which means a deliberate and thorough interview process with 3-4 interviews and a final paid work trial. In exchange, you get real autonomy from day one, direct access to the people setting technical direction, and work that ships to roads in weeks, not quarters.
The Essentials (Health & Wealth)
Relocation Support: We are excited for you to join the team at our engineering office in Denver. We value in-person collaboration and daily team lunches and we provide a relocation bonus to help you get here.
Personalized Health Coverage (ICHRA): We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all healthcare. We provide a monthly allowance for you and dependents so you can choose the individual plan that actually fits your life.
Investing in Your Future: 401(k) matching up to 4%.
Peace of Mind: Transparent compensation. Company-sponsored life & disability insurance.
Early Stage Equity: Competitive equity package. Every year, we facilitate a tender process that gives you the opportunity to sell your vested shares at the same valuation as our investors.
Rest & Recharge 🌴
High-Trust Time Off: 4 weeks of untracked PTO. We don't micromanage your calendar; we focus on your impact. Take the time you need to stay sharp and inspired.
Family First: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for birth and adoptive parents. We want you present for the moments that matter most.
The Deep Breath (Sabbatical): Every 5 years, take 12 weeks of fully paid leave. Go travel, write a book, or master a new hobby—then come back and tell us all about it.
Fuel & Community 😀
The Blissway Kitchen: Whether it’s breakfast to start your day or our daily group lunches, we keep the team fueled.
Snacks Autonomy: Our kitchen is fully stocked and we mean it—if we’re missing your favorite fuel, just add it to the request list.
The \"BlissTrip\": An annual 4-day getaway for the team and significant others.
Monthly Beats: Game nights, escape rooms, and dinners to celebrate the grit we put in.
Continuous Learning: Tuition reimbursement for courses, programs, and conferences that sharpen your craft.
Work at Blissway: Opportunity for Impact Every Day 🚀✨
Blissway is a startup that simplifies toll collection and dramatically improves highway safety. We are multiple startups in one: Deep Tech, AI/ML, Hardware, SaaS, and IoT. For the past five years, we have built a nearly insurmountable technological lead in tolling, a roughly $200B global industry expected to double in the next decade. We work for toll authorities and state DOTs, and we own the whole system, from the roadside camera to the final bill, so every vehicle we see becomes one accurate toll transaction and nothing more. While our competitors have thousands of employees, we operate with a lean but growing team of less than 30. Our impact is visible on the massive Interstate Highway System connecting every major US metro (except Juneau, AK—sorry, Juneau).
The Mission
Our technological lead depends on hiring exceptional engineers. You will own the machine that finds them, moves them through our process, and converts them into great hires. This is an individual contributor role that will shape how we hire. You'll work directly with our founders and engineering leaders, and your ideas will change how we find and close great people.
Run the Engine: Own day-to-day recruiting operations across engineering and operations searches: pipeline management, scheduling, and candidate communication.
Keep the System Sharp: Run our Ashby instance day to day. Maintain automations, stages, scorecards, and reporting, and flag what's slowing the team down.
Experiment and Measure: Track the funnel end to end. Run experiments to improve work trial conversion, speed, and candidate quality, and report what you learn.
Apply the Bar: Use our candidate profile and screening framework to triage applicants accurately, and help sharpen it as we learn from every hire.
Represent Blissway: You are often a candidate's first impression of us. Tell our story well, manage agency partners, and make every candidate want to join, even the ones we don't hire.
Our Talent Stack
You must be comfortable using or learning Ashby. Beyond that, we value problem-solving over tool familiarity.
Also in our stack: Rippling, Claude, Notion, Slack, LinkedIn Recruiter, BuiltIn
Your favorites: Have a tool you swear by? Bring the ROI case and we'll budget for it.
Specialties: Recruiting operations, ATS administration, funnel analytics, process design, AI-assisted workflows, employer brand, agency partnerships
You are a good fit if...
You have drive: You take extreme ownership. If something's broken, you fix it. If something's missing, you build it. We are outcomes focused not hours focused. You do what it takes to deliver when it matters, and you know when the moment calls for an extra push.
You think clearly: You cut through noise. You can spot what's wrong in a messy pipeline, decide what to fix first, and explain why it matters. You can tell good from great, and you can explain the difference.
You communicate clearly: In writing and in person, you get to the point. Candidates, hiring managers, and agency partners always know where things stand and what happens next.
You see recruiting as a science: You treat a hiring process as a system you can test. You form a hypothesis, change one thing, measure it, and keep what works. You're comfortable with numbers and let data, not gut feel, settle debates. \"We've always done it this way\" bothers you.
You are detail obsessed: You run many searches, stakeholders, and candidates at once, and nothing falls through the cracks. You keep projects on track across multiple stakeholders and deadlines. Candidates feel cared for even when you're moving fast.
You know Ashby: You have at least 6 months of hands-on Ashby experience beyond using it as a recruiter. You've built interview plans, set up automations, pulled reports, and fixed things when they broke.
You have technical foundations: You don't need to be an engineer, but you're curious about how engineers work and fluent enough to earn their respect. You're comfortable with automations, integrations, and AI tools, and you'd rather build a workflow than repeat a task.
You value working together in person: You’re excited to work alongside the team at our Denver office. This role is in-office on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with flexibility to work remotely on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
This might be you if...
You want your work to make a difference every day. You're drawn to the pace of a startup and the stability of a profitable business with long-term contracts. You're excited to drive past our products on the interstate and know you helped build something real.
The Interview Process
We're a selectively small team, which means a deliberate and thorough interview process with 3-4 interviews and a final paid work trial. In exchange, you get real autonomy from day one and direct access to the people setting the company direction.
The Essentials (Health & Wealth)
Relocation Support: We are excited for you to join the team at our engineering office in Denver. We value in-person collaboration and daily team lunches and we provide a relocation bonus to help you get here.
Personalized Health Coverage (ICHRA): We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all healthcare. We provide a monthly allowance for you and dependents so you can choose the individual plan that actually fits your life.
Investing in Your Future: 401(k) matching up to 4%.
Peace of Mind: Transparent compensation. Company-sponsored life & disability insurance.
Early Stage Equity: Competitive equity package. Every year, we facilitate a tender process that gives you the opportunity to sell your vested shares at the same valuation as our investors.
Rest & Recharge 🌴
High-Trust Time Off: 4 weeks of untracked PTO. We don't micromanage your calendar; we focus on your impact. Take the time you need to stay sharp and inspired.
Family First: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for birth and adoptive parents. We want you present for the moments that matter most.
The Deep Breath (Sabbatical): Every 5 years, take 12 weeks of fully paid leave. Go travel, write a book, or master a new hobby—then come back and tell us all about it.
Fuel & Community 😀
The Blissway Kitchen: Whether it’s breakfast to start your day or our daily group lunches, we keep the team fueled.
Snacks Autonomy: Our kitchen is fully stocked and we mean it—if we’re missing your favorite fuel, just add it to the request list.
The \"BlissTrip\": An annual 4-day getaway for the team and significant others.
Monthly Beats: Game nights, escape rooms, and dinners to celebrate the grit we put in.
Continuous Learning: Tuition reimbursement for courses, programs, and conferences that sharpen your craft.
Work at Blissway: Opportunity for Impact Every Day 🚀✨
Blissway is a startup that simplifies toll collection and dramatically improves highway safety. We are multiple startups in one: Deep Tech, AI/ML, Hardware, SaaS, and IoT. For the past five years, we have built a nearly insurmountable technological lead in tolling, a roughly $200B global industry expected to double in the next decade. We work for toll authorities and state DOTs, and we own the whole system, from the roadside camera to the final bill, so every vehicle we see becomes one accurate toll transaction and nothing more. While our competitors have thousands of employees, we operate with a lean but growing team of less than 30. Our impact is visible on the massive Interstate Highway System connecting every major US metro (except Juneau, AK—sorry, Juneau).
The Mission
Our technology runs on some of the busiest toll roads in the country, and our growth depends on a tight, well-run business behind it. You'll report directly to our founder and CEO and take as much off his plate as you can handle, including owning Blissway's finance and operations: the numbers, the workflows, and the systems we'll scale on. You'll see up close how a startup gets built: the decisions, the problems, and the details that make it all work. Your scope will grow as you do.
You'll begin with:
Finance: Run the numbers that drive the business. Lead monthly reporting to the founders, including budget vs. actuals and a cash forecast. Own the monthly close and work with our outside CPA firm on tax and year-end.
Operations: Run the deals and decisions that keep the company moving: negotiate vendor and service agreements, manage leases like the private road where we test our technology, and decide when a contract needs outside counsel. When something is slowing the team down, you find it and fix it.
Billing and payments: Run the systems that can't break. Customer invoicing, including milestone billing for public agencies, along with collections, vendor payments, payroll, and benefits. Much of it is already automated, and we want to keep it that way.
You are a good fit if...
You have drive: You take extreme ownership. If a number doesn't tie out, you find out why. If a process is missing, you build it. We are outcomes focused, not hours focused. You know when a major project calls for an extra push.
You think clearly: You cut through noise. You can look at a P&L or an aging report, spot what's wrong and explain what to fix first.
You communicate clearly: In writing and in person, you get to the point. Founders, employees, customers, and vendors always know where things stand: what's owed, and what's due next.
You spot and flag gaps proactively: You don't wait to be asked. You spot the lapsing insurance policy, the under-billed contract, the filing coming due, or the cash crunch three months out, and you raise it early with a recommendation.
You see finance and operations as a system: You treat the books, payroll, and billing as a system you can build, not a pile of tasks. You automate what repeats, document the rest, and set up controls so the same mistake can't happen twice. \"We've always done it this way\" bothers you.
You are detail obsessed: You juggle payments, customer invoices, filings, and renewals and nothing falls through the cracks. Every number has backup, every deadline is on a calendar, and every invoice goes out on time.
You learn fast: You may have closed the books before, or you may simply respect it as a job that the business can't function without. You don't need to have done every part of this job before if you pick up new systems quickly, ask the right questions, and don't need to be shown twice.
You have technical foundations: You don't need to be an engineer, but you're curious about how our products work and how we make money from them. You're comfortable with automations, integrations, and AI tools, and you'd rather build a workflow than repeat a task.
You value working together in person: You’re excited to work alongside the team at our Denver office. This role is in-office on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with flexibility to work remotely on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Bonus points: Experience with public agency or government contracts (milestone invoicing, required backup documentation, long payment cycles). A CPA or progress toward one is a plus, not a requirement.
This might be you if...
You want your work to make a difference every day. You're drawn to the pace of a startup and the stability of a profitable business with long-term contracts. You love getting things done, and you'd rather own finance and operations end to end than one slice of it at a big company. You're excited to build the systems we'll scale on.
Backgrounds we'd love to hear from: You might be in operations at a fast-growing startup, a couple of years into consulting or Big 4, or something else entirely. We care far more about how fast you learn and how much you own than whether you've held this exact job before.
The Interview Process
We're a selectively small team, which means a deliberate and thorough interview process with 3-4 interviews and a final paid work trial. In exchange, you get real autonomy from day one and direct access to the people setting the company direction.
The Essentials (Health & Wealth)
Relocation Support: We are excited for you to join the team at our engineering office in Denver. We value in-person collaboration and daily team lunches and we provide a relocation bonus to help you get here.
Personalized Health Coverage (ICHRA): We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all healthcare. We provide a monthly allowance for you and dependents so you can choose the individual plan that actually fits your life.
Investing in Your Future: 401(k) matching up to 4%.
Peace of Mind: Transparent compensation. Company-sponsored life & disability insurance.
Early Stage Equity: Competitive equity package. Every year, we facilitate a tender process that gives you the opportunity to sell your vested shares at the same valuation as our investors.
Rest & Recharge 🌴
High-Trust Time Off: 4 weeks of untracked PTO. We don't micromanage your calendar; we focus on your impact. Take the time you need to stay sharp and inspired.
Family First: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for birth and adoptive parents. We want you present for the moments that matter most.
The Deep Breath (Sabbatical): Every 5 years, take 12 weeks of fully paid leave. Go travel, write a book, or master a new hobby—then come back and tell us all about it.
Fuel & Community 😀
The Blissway Kitchen: Whether it’s breakfast to start your day or our daily group lunches, we keep the team fueled.
Snacks Autonomy: Our kitchen is fully stocked and we mean it—if we’re missing your favorite fuel, just add it to the request list.
The \"BlissTrip\": An annual 4-day getaway for the team and significant others.
Monthly Beats: Game nights, escape rooms, and dinners to celebrate the grit we put in.
Continuous Learning: Tuition reimbursement for courses, programs, and conferences that sharpen your craft.
Work at Blissway: Opportunity for Impact Every Day 🚀✨
Blissway is a startup that simplifies toll collection and dramatically improves highway safety. We are multiple startups in one: Deep Tech, AI/ML, Hardware, SaaS, and IoT. For the past five years, we have built a nearly insurmountable technological lead in tolling, a roughly $200B global industry expected to double in the next decade. We work for toll authorities and state DOTs, and we own the whole system, from the roadside camera to the final bill, so every vehicle we see becomes one accurate toll transaction and nothing more. While our competitors have thousands of employees, we operate with a lean but growing team of less than 30. Our impact is visible on the massive Interstate Highway System connecting every major US metro (except Juneau, AK—sorry, Juneau).
You are a good fit if...
You love the grind: You take ownership and put in the time to meet deadlines. Our recent team survey showed an average of 55 hours/week, with occasional 70+ hour bursts for major releases.
You are detail obsessed: You have experience writing code, designing or building systems that stands up to the unpredictability of the physical world, where the small details are the difference between success and failure.
You are adaptable: We are a lean team. If you only want to work on a \"niche thing\" or are uncomfortable helping other teams when they need a boost, this isn't the place for you. We expect you to figure out what you need to get stuff done.
You code really well: We mostly use Python and TypeScript, but we don’t care what you’re most proficient in today—as long as you learn fast.
You value working together in person: You’re excited to work alongside the team at our Denver office. This role is in-office on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with flexibility to work remotely on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The Mission: Every image on our system has one job: complete an accurate toll transaction through a billing system we run and audit ourselves. Your job is keeping the models behind that transaction accurate and reliable. We process 11 million images a day, using detection, segmentation, classification, embeddings, and re-identification to match each vehicle to its toll. You'll own the infrastructure, deployment, and monitoring that take a model to the road, and the updates that keep it correct once it's there. This role is for the engineer who sees a great model stuck in a notebook and can't rest until it's running reliably in production.
The Work
Own the Platform: We wire it all together and run our own servers. You own the infrastructure behind every model we ship: training and serving infrastructure, model versioning, deployment, and rollback.
Vision at Real Scale: 11 million images a day across vehicles, license plates, wheels, and lane markings. At this volume, a faster pipeline or a cheaper inference path saves money every day.
Real Hardware in the Real World: We own the devices in the field, so the systems you build run on roads, not just in a test environment.
Edge and Cloud: Most of our compute lives in the cloud, where power is effectively unlimited. We're now pushing more inference onto roadside hardware, which is a completely different problem. You'll build the path that gets models onto edge devices, keeps them updated, and tells us when something drifts.
Maintain What Matters: Your job is making sure the model stays correct. You build the monitoring that catches degradation before anyone else does, and you own the updates that fix it.
How We Handle Data: We work only for toll authorities and state DOTs, on legislatively authorized toll roads. The laws governing our work prohibit keeping data unless it's used to charge a toll. There is no search-by-plate interface, no cross-agency lookup network, and no standing law enforcement access. Data leaves our system only through the same legal process that applies to any company's billing records.
Requirements
Experience: 2 to 6 years of full-time software engineering experience building and running production systems, such as infrastructure, backend services, or ML platforms.
Production Fundamentals: You write production-quality code and build reliable systems: pipelines, deployment, observability, and the tooling that keeps them running.
ML Curiosity: You don't need to design novel architectures. You may have deployed models before, or you may be a strong engineer who wants to go deep on ML. Either way, you understand, or are eager to learn, how models are trained and evaluated well enough to debug them in production.
Python: Fluent in Python.
Bonus: Experience taking ML models past the notebook (deployment, monitoring, retraining), deploying to edge or resource-constrained hardware, or running your own servers instead of fully managed cloud services.
The Interview Process
We're a selectively small team, which means a deliberate and thorough interview process with 3-4 interviews and a final paid work trial. In exchange, you get real autonomy from day one, direct access to the people setting technical direction, and work that ships to roads in weeks, not quarters.
The Essentials (Health & Wealth)
Relocation Support: We are excited for you to join the team at our engineering office in Denver. We value in-person collaboration and daily team lunches and we provide a relocation bonus to help you get here.
Personalized Health Coverage (ICHRA): We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all healthcare. We provide a monthly allowance for you and dependents so you can choose the individual plan that actually fits your life.
Investing in Your Future: 401(k) matching up to 4%.
Peace of Mind: Transparent compensation. Company-sponsored life & disability insurance.
Early Stage Equity: Competitive equity package. Every year, we facilitate a tender process that gives you the opportunity to sell your vested shares at the same valuation as our investors.
Rest & Recharge 🌴
High-Trust Time Off: 4 weeks of untracked PTO. We don't micromanage your calendar; we focus on your impact. Take the time you need to stay sharp and inspired.
Family First: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for birth and adoptive parents. We want you present for the moments that matter most.
The Deep Breath (Sabbatical): Every 5 years, take 12 weeks of fully paid leave. Go travel, write a book, or master a new hobby—then come back and tell us all about it.
Fuel & Community 😀
The Blissway Kitchen: Whether it’s breakfast to start your day or our daily group lunches, we keep the team fueled.
Snacks Autonomy: Our kitchen is fully stocked and we mean it—if we’re missing your favorite fuel, just add it to the request list.
The \"BlissTrip\": An annual 4-day getaway for the team and significant others.
Monthly Beats: Game nights, escape rooms, and dinners to celebrate the grit we put in.
Continuous Learning: Tuition reimbursement for courses, programs, and conferences that sharpen your craft.