project44 is revolutionizing the freight and logistics industry by applying cutting edge technologies to automate the entire lifecycle of freight shipments including quoting, scheduling, and real-time visibility. project44’s network of APIs is capable of optimizing the shipment lifecycle, empowering companies to deliver the best customer experience possible, and provide up to date data while cutting costs along the way.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Project44 Engineering team in Chicago! You will work in a fast-paced Agile team to design and implement Java applications.

Key Accountabilities

• Build high quality software for large scale and highly available systems
• Break down complex requirements into workable technical solutions
• Ability to develop in a fast-paced, quality-driven environment
• Willingness to vocalize your ideas and pick yourself up if you get knocked down
• Comfortable with TDD best practices
• Review the work done by other team members to make sure it adheres to the standards
• Comfortable with Agile methodologies
• Outstanding programming and problem-solving skills
• Fearless about learning new technologies and technical approaches to application development
• Strong desire to build products that will have a daily impact on one of the World’s largest industries
• Play an influential role in growing project44 to the industry leader in technology

Requirements & Preferred Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar field
• Stickler for clean, clear and concise code
• Intellectual curiosity to pursue the unknown and continuously learn
• At least 3 years of Software Development experience (software design, architecture, implementation, deployment, and support)
• 2+ years of development in Java
• Experience working with a SaaS product, preferred
• A proactive mindset
• Familiarity with relational databases
• Experience with AWS or other cloud provider is a huge plus
• Strong knowledge of Web Services (REST, SOAP)
• Experience with the Spring Portfolio including the Spring Boot
• Experience with Docker is a huge plus
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States

Tools We Work With

• AWS
• Ansible for configuration management and remote orchestration
• Linux (Ubuntu), Tomcat, Nginx, Spring Boot
• Java, Javascript (ES5 and ES6), Groovy, Python
• Kafka, Zookeeper, ELK stack, Aurelia
• Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB
• Hadoop, Spark
• Zabbix, Grafana, New Relic
• Git, Confluence, Jira, Jenkins, Artifactory, Slack