At CarrierDirect, we are on a mission to modernize the Logistics industry. We partner with our clients leading the transportation industry beyond disruption. We bring transformational business strategies and digital products to our clients that make the world more efficient, connected and viable.  We are inspired by people who are passionate, curious and innovative.

  Job Description

We are looking for a BackEnd Engineer responsible for building high performance, responsive, and scalable RESTful web services.  We are working on challenging problems that require bright minds and persistent engineers to solve. We work in a highly collaborative agile environment utilizing the latest technologies, these include: React.js, Kotlin, and Spring 5. We are bringing the transportation industry to the cloud and looking for ways to leverage data analytics to provide additional value to our customers. It is a journey that will allow you to:

• Build backend APIs for maximum speed and scalability

• Coordinate with FrontEnd engineers to integrate with backend services 

• Build reusable code libraries for future use

• Focus on security and data protection

• Design and implement data storage solutions

• Work with cloud technologies such as AWS and GCP

• Implement Infrastructure as Code and support continuous integration and delivery with tools like CircleCI and Terraform

• Understand and deploy to Kubernetes

• Mentor junior team members

• Understand principles and tradeoffs of monolithic vs microservices based architecture and everything in between

• Add your voice to the Engineering team to ensure we are performing the right work at the right time

• Be bold in making technical decisions and understand the associated risks

  Skills And Qualifications

We are looking for engineers with the following experience:

• A back-end programming language - Depending on the specific case, a developer should have the knowledge of one or more of PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript

• Code versioning tools, such as Git

• Understanding of OWASP security principles and accessibility

• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

• Operations tasks such as data migration, transformation, and scripting, setup and administration of backups, deployments and rollbacks, management of hosting environment including database administration and scaling an application

• Session management in a distributed server environment and statelessness in applications

• Data models that represent and support business processes

• Automated testing platforms and unit testing

• 6+ years of hands on professional backend software development

• 3+ years of hands on experience with  Java, Scala, or Kotlin

• 3+ years of hands on experience with Spring Framework

Preferred Experience In:

• Front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3. Bonus points for React, Angular, or Vue!

• Differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop

  Why Work Here

Our values are Transparency, Persistence, Curiosity, Accountability, and Humility. We work in an open environment where feedback is welcomed and encouraged.   We are continuously seeking out how we can be better as individuals, as a team, and as a company. As a growing company, we encourage people that want to have a visible impact in how we build, operate, and create great applications!