Configuration Engineer
About The Role:
The transportation industry has no shortage of complex problems requiring creative solutions to scale efficiently. In this role, you will be instrumental in configuring multiple Client Mastermind implementation concurrently. In order to be successful, this candidate must be comfortable in front of the client and provide highly responsive communication. You will be responsible for standardizing our 3rd party configuration management, managing feature flags, and coordinating any engineering efforts necessary to configure Mastermind for specific client needs.
Responsibilities:
- Solve technical hurdles that are impeding value realization and actively commit to helping the team iterate to excellence.
- Couple technical knowledge with a consultative mindset to understand Client needs, gather requirements, and influence decisions for TMS implementation
- Become highly proficient on LaunchDarkly and advocate for continuous improvement and speed to market through feature toggling.
- Advocate for our clients by translating, aggregating, and representing client feedback to the Product and Engineering teams.
- Collaborate with Core Implementations Project Teams to form streamlined processes and solutions for configuration management
- Comprehensively and coherently documents work in Confluence and tracks and defines work within JIRA.
- Manage multiple tenant’s configuration strategy and ensure downstream validations include client specific needs. This includes but not limited to: 3rd party configurations, feature flags, and other tenant level configurations.
- Validate client configurations throughout our release management process by creating configuration SOPs and readiness checklists. When appropriate, work with engineering stakeholders to repeatable automated processes and reporting.
- Participate on active implementation project teams to drive configuration best practices as part of the overall solution. This includes standard intake processes and templates for managing tenant configurations.
Qualifications:
- You learn and synthesize large amounts of information with little context.
- You have a hands-on technical background with a consultative approach.
- You have the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- You are a self-starter and excited to take on hard problems.
- You are passionate about helping customers and have a strong sense of ownership.
- You can effectively communicate with experts from different backgrounds and build strong stakeholder relationships.
- You have a technical background and are interested in a customer-facing role.
Preferred Qualifications
- You are familiar with the software development lifecycle.
- You have worked with teams that underwent development process transformation.
- You are comfortable with at least one of our supported languages: Java, .NET, Go, JS, Python, PHP, NodeJS, Ruby, Rails
- You are familiar with DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery.
- You have worked with one of the major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- You have worked with Linux, Docker, and Virtual Machines.
About Mastery
Mastery Logistics Systems is building the world’s first lovable Transportation Management System, or TMS.
Our customers – large transportation companies and shippers who need those companies – have struggled with systems that are outdated or inadequate. As shippers or transportation service providers, our customers have in the past been forced to use multiple systems to manage dedicated fleet operations, outsourced or insourced trans management, one way trucking, truckload brokerage, LTL, and Intermodal, or to sub-optimize one or more of those functions by attempting to fit it into a TMS that is adequate at another function.
Mastermind TMS allows our customers to bring all of these functions into a single platform, providing flexibility, visibility, control, and efficiency. Today’s unprecedented global supply chain upheavals underscore how important the transportation industry is. We are building a system to allow this industry to work faster, smarter and more efficiently.
The challenges in this industry are big and exciting! We are tackling everything from fast and efficient data input to ingesting large amounts of data and applying AI to looking at blockchain to securely digitize paperwork. If you are passionate about humanizing an industry, automating in innovative ways, building for quality and scale, helping make people's lives easier and touching every part of our economy then this is the place for you.
Mastery Logistics Systems is committed to continuing to build an incredible company. We are a masterful mosaic of incredible people. We are specialists and experienced in our respective fields. We are dedicated to continuous improvement both professionally and personally. We are a collective group of really good people. We have different interests, backgrounds & talents and we work together to create really cool stuff! We believe in diversity of thought and are mindful and inclusive. We have deep respect for each other and work diligently at adding the right people to our teams.
At this moment we are all working from home and doing our part to combat the Covid 19 virus. We are creatively building our new work habits. We are respectful of each other’s time and personal life. We have flexible schedules but share in the mission that we are building and need to get it done. We offer an excellent suite of benefits. We are dedicated to finding new ways to add perks as we live and work from home.
Our team has the domain knowledge and connections to make an impact, and we’re looking for experienced and thoughtful people to who thrive on creating and building great products. We want people who have a true passion for servicing and taking care of our customers. We need people who are flexible problem solvers, thrive on collaboration and consistently know how to communicate their solutions well. We are small and nimble – which is evident in how quickly we could pivot to our new reality. Each member of the team can make a tremendous impact both technically and culturally. While a start-up, we are well-funded, have an initial paying customer with which to test and launch, and are founded by top experts and veterans in the logistics industry.
Join us – you’ll love it – let’s build a masterpiece!
Benefits
Mastery takes great pride in providing our employees a robust and highly competitive benefit package. Our benefits include Medical, Dental and Vision insurance covering 90% of premium costs. Company paid life insurance for 1x salary. Legal, AD&D, Additional Life and other employee assistance benefits. We have a 401k savings plan with a 4% match. We provide opportunities for professional growth and development. We fully support our work from home initiative as we do our part to combat the Covid 19 crisis. We have a manage your life and schedule Paid Time Off program. We are fully devoted to finding creative perks and benefits since we cannot currently enjoy our cool office culture. Our philanthropic partner is St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
We are an equal opportunity employer and actively seek a diverse community of professionals. Veterans, Women, non-binary, people of color, LGBTQIA, we welcome all to apply!