Software Engineer II, Forwarding App

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Key Responsibilities

• 1
  Build highly available, secure, distributed systems in a microservice architecture.
• 2
  Design, develop, test and maintain systems that represent the real-world intricacies of logistics entities, such as shipper, client, cargo, document, carrier, container, email etc.
• 3
  Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry to work on complex business and technical problems.
• 4
  Work closely with business partners and product managers to distill complex business problems into elegant technical solutions.
• 5
  Build and launch products rapidly and incrementally. We ship to production dozens of times per day.
• 6
  Ensure our products maintain a high-quality bar. We believe in anticipating issues by obsessing over metrics and applying key learnings from post-mortems to all our services.
• 7
  Geek out about shipping and logistics. (We do this often.)

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience writing software, and a strong engineering background.
• 2+ years of design and architecture knowledge as well as familiarity with object-oriented analysis and design patterns (OOA/OOD)
• Knowledge of at least one programming language such as Ruby, C, C++, Java, or Kotlin
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience
• A love of simple, well-tested code that is easy to extend and hard to break.
• A bias for action. When you see a problem, you solve it.
• The ability to convey technical ideas in common terms to business partners, product managers, and engineers alike.
• Experience building large scale, high-performance systems in a complex, multi-tiered, distributed environment
• Understanding of performance tradeoffs, load balancing and operational issues
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operations
• Non-optional: an aptitude for learning quickly.

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