Backend Engineer
Our integrations team manages our third-party integrations, which allow us to ingest orders and shipments, synchronize with ERPs and dedicated financial systems, track shipments, monitor carrier compliance, and unlocks a massive network of carriers. We're a cross functional team that includes a PM, multiple backend engineers, informatica engineers, frontend engineer, qa engineer, and a product designer. Our major initiatives include EDI connectivity, tracking shipments using electronic logging devices (ELDs), and integrating with ERP systems via APIs. We'd love for you to join us and build the future.
What youll do when you get here:
Consistently ship high-quality code to production
Build for perf and high availability
Eliminate alot of data entry and busywork for our most important customers
Clean up messes. You'll refactor our technical debt into organized, efficient services
Maintain quality standards. Stay up to date on best practices and enforce them with code reviews
Write beautiful Python microservices, lambdas, and workers that rely on our event architecture
Work closely with product to refine ideas and turn hifi designs into reality
Proactively find problems or gaps in our codebase and fix them
Own your apps: Fix, bugs, talk to users, and regularly update your existing applications
Write unit tests
What you need to have:
Senior and mid-level candidates
A self-starter that can get stuff done with little supervision. We expect for you to fill in the blanks and work with your teammates to get it launched.
Ability to empathize with our users and really listen to their requirements
Strong CS fundamentals, deep experience in a modern backend (Django, Rails, Spring), database modeling (ORM or raw), and a desire to learn and master your craft
An understanding of application performance (Big-O and profiling) and data structures
You were raised on the cloud (AWS, GCP) and are comfortable living in a containerized world
What is Preferred:
You've worked in the logistics industry
Experience with Python frameworks like Django, Flask, and Fast API
Devops Knowledge - Docker, Jenkins, Terraform
Experience with an event architecture
You've written enterprise integrations
NoSQL Experience (Mongo, Redis)