Senior Software Engineer - Backend at project44 - Referrals

Description:   

project44 is looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Backend to join our engineering team. You will work in a fast-paced Agile environment designing, building, and implementing best-in-class integrations to accelerate how project44 connects to the world’s logistics networks.  

 Key accountabilities: What you'll work on  

• Build state-of-the-art integrations to expand our ever-growing network of connected carriers and customers.  
• Manage integrations through their life cycle.  
• Operate, maintain, and improve the supply chain visibility platform owned by the team.  
• Building systems in a multi-cloud environment. We use AWS and GCP but value experience in other cloud environments such as Azure.  
• Work with and align with cross functional teams to solve challenging problems.  
• Share ownership of all facets of software delivery, including development, operations, and test  
• You will assume on-call responsibilities for systems (together with the team) that are built and owned by your team.   
• You will invest in tools, monitoring, and automation to improve on-call experience for everyone on your team.  

 Qualifications:  

• 5+ years professional experience building large scale and real time or near real time cloud systems. 
• Strong programming and debugging skills, with proficiency in C++ or Java. 

Experience in:  

• Building systems in a multi-cloud environment. We use AWS & GCP but value experience in other cloud environments such as Azure.  

• Creating and working with scalable Java-based micro-services.  
• Working with databases (preferably Postgres or other SQL based DB)  
• Event stores and stream-processing in Kafka or Kinesis.  
• Working in an agile software development environment.  

Desirable and helpful (but not necessary) are experience in  

• Experience with investigating large and complex codebases 
• Hands-on experience with C++ 
• Creating API's/web services: REST, OpenAPI/Swagger is a plus.  
• Container-orchestration: Docker & Kubernetes  
• Enjoy database related work: DynamoDB, MongoDB, Postgres.  
• Analytical approach to problem solving.  
• Personal drive and maintaining a high pace - while taking responsibility for things working.  
• Willingness to vocalize your ideas and pick yourself up if you get knocked down.