Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Why project44?  

At project44, we’re on a mission to make supply chains work.

With Movement, our High-Velocity Supply Chain Platform, project44 optimizes the movement of products globally, delivering unparalleled resiliency, sustainability, and value for our customers. We operate the world's most trusted end-to-end visibility platform, tracking over 1 billion shipments annually for over 1,300 leading brands across manufacturing, automotive, retail, life sciences, food & beverage, and oil, chemical & gas industries. Recently named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company’s List, project44 is headquartered in Chicago with a diverse team spanning 19 global offices and growing.

If you’re eager to be part of a winning team that works together to solve some of the most challenging supply chain challenges every day, let’s talk.

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 integration services 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 Java & Spring. 
• 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 
• Building systems supporting many and varied integrations to third parties. 
• 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. 
• Don't have everything listed? No problem! We'd still like to hear from you. 

In-office Commitment: This position requires a commitment to contribute to our collaborative culture by working in-office three days weekly. 

Diversity & Inclusion  

At project44, we're designing the future of how the world moves and is connected through trade and global supply chains. As we work to deliver a truly world-class product and experience, we are also intentionally building teams that reflect the unique communities we serve. We’re focused on creating a company where all team members can bring their authentic selves to work every day.  

We’re building a company that every one of us at project44 is proud to work for, and our journey of becoming a more diverse, equitable and inclusive organization, where all have a sense of belonging, is shaped through the actions of our leadership, global teams and individual team members. We are resolute in our belief that each team member has an equal responsibility to mold and uphold our culture.  

project44 is an equal opportunity employer seeking to enrich our work environment by creating opportunities for individuals of all backgrounds and experiences to thrive. If you share our values and our passion for helping the way the world moves, we’d love to review your application!  

For any needed accommodations during the hiring process, please email [email protected]. Even if you don’t meet 100% of the above job description you should still seriously consider applying. Studies show that you can still be considered for a role if you meet just 50% of the role’s requirements.