Senior Software Engineer (Polyglot/Language Agnostic) – AWS, PostgreSQL, Python, React, Ruby, Rails, GraphQL, Java, Scala, C#, Modern JavaScript, Flow Full Time

Our client, a supply chain, shipping, freight, logistics, global trade company, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their team in San Francisco, California.  You will help to craft the engineering vision, and own the technical landscape for a major domain in the world of logistics that powers global trade.

Responsibilities:

• Design systems that represent the real-world intricacies of logistics entities, such as cargo, routing, customs, and pricing.
• Work closely with business partners and product managers to distill complex business problems into elegant technical solutions.
• Build and launch products rapidly and incrementally. We ship to production dozens of times per day.

The types of problems you will solve:

• Figure out the most efficient way to pack our 747 freighter.
• Determine, in real time, the cost to move freight between any two points in the world.
• Automate archaic filing processes and save the operations team thousands of phone calls per week.
• Manage and track fleets of trucks as they pick up and deliver cargo.
• Deliver supply chain insights to logistics teams via a world-class analytics experience.
• Predict capacity on container ships and match cargo to space on those ships.
• Bring trade to everyone in the world.

Qualifications:

• At least 6+ years of experience writing software, and a strong engineering background.
• A love of simple, well-tested code that is easy to extend and hard to break.
• The ability to convey technical ideas in common terms to business partners, product managers, and engineers alike.
• A bias for action. When you see a problem, you solve it.
• Optional: experience in Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, React, Modern JavaScript, and/or Flow.