AI-enhanced for better readability
Cardog
Location: Toronto, Canada or REMOTE
Type: Full-time
Source: Hacker News
Apply: https://cardog.app/careers
About Cardog
We are the system of record for the Canadian vehicle: raw automotive data turned into facts that can be checked. Our open-source VIN decoder sits underneath a government vehicle registry.
The Challenge
- Data Reconciliation: A government registry, a manufacturer's own filing, a listing site, and an insurance record will describe the same truck four different ways, and nothing in any of those files says they're the same truck. Reconciling that, for every vehicle in the country, in a way that holds up when a regulator asks how you know, is most of the data work.
- VIN Decoding: Seventeen characters on a door frame encode manufacturer, plant, model year, and build attributes—badly, inconsistently, and differently per manufacturer. Public reference data covers some of it. The rest gets worked out from filings, recall documents, and patterns inferred across millions of vehicles.
- OBD-II Integration: We read vehicles directly over OBD-II. Forty modules answered on a recent Hyundai, each reporting its own part number and installed software version. Nothing downstream of the VIN moves when a module is reflashed, so no registration, history report, or dealer system knows what software is actually in a car.
Open Positions
We are currently hiring for the following roles:
- VIN Decode Engineer
- Data Platform Engineer
- Infrastructure Engineer
- Founding Engineer (dealer platform)
Tech Stack
- TypeScript
- Postgres
- Cloudflare Workers
How to Apply
View full job descriptions and apply at: https://cardog.app/careers