Senior Backend Engineer

🏆 What’s the opportunity?

Embark on a pioneering journey to drive air freight and logistics digital transformation. As a proud member of a rapidly expanding Series B company, you'll collaborate with a team supported by prominent Venture Capital firms like Index and Bessemer.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will engage with diverse stakeholders, contributing to feature designs and architectural decisions, and ensuring, at the same time, the quality of the work. You will dive deep into technical complexities, refining and writing tickets. You will experience a culture of open communication, providing and receiving insightful feedback during retrospectives, one-on-ones, and regular performance reviews.

We're advocates of Scrum. If you're familiar with the Scrum guide or have been part of an efficient Scrum team, you'll resonate with our working style. We hope you'll embody our core values: commitment, courage, focus, openness, and respect.

At our core, we believe in a harmonious blend of diligent work, continuous feedback, and the right amount of fun. Ready to join us and revolutionize how airlines handle cargo?

🌍 You can work from (almost) anywhere in Europe and South Africa. Please check here if the country you are in is on our hiring list. We are a remote company, but regularly meet in person, too.

🎬 A snapshot of what you will be doing here:

• You will work with technologies like Python 3, Flask, Javascript, Vue.js, PostgreSQL, and Redis. We run a service-oriented architecture with synchronous gRPC endpoints and Celery for asynchronous workloads. All of it runs in Kubernetes clusters deployed in Google Cloud Platform.

• We aim to have continuous deployment pipelines and code that goes into production extremely fast. We can deploy several times daily today, but a few manual steps are still involved. We are constantly expanding our automated tests and refining log messages, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerts to move closer to the desired level of automation and observability.

• We are actively exploring how LLMs are changing our day-to-day work as software engineers. Our baseline expectation is that you are excited about the prospect to delegate tedious, repetitive work to an LLM and find more utility through tools like Cursor or Claude Code to have more focus on all the things that require a human touch.

• We are constantly thinking about our users. There are lots of people in the organization who are even closer to them, from customer service agents to account managers and of course our product team. Nonetheless, it is our job to ask “why?” a lot, challenge assumptions, and bring our unique perspective as software engineers to the table.

• We want to enable our co-workers to do their jobs as effectively as possible, so we are regularly building and extending self-service tools for the different roles in the organization. While we have already covered quite a bit of ground on this front, there is still a lot to build. In the meantime, as engineers, we provide hands-on support to ensure our users have an awesome experience.

• We thrive on proactivity. Everyone is encouraged to share knowledge, offer constructive feedback, uplift colleagues, and step up with leadership qualities when the team requires it most.

🕵🏼‍♀️ We are looking for individuals with:

• We're seeking passionate individuals with at least 5 years of relevant experience. We value what you've learned and achieved during your time in the field.

• Our ideal candidate is someone curious about building transformative products. We're looking for individuals who empathize with users, are passionate about our mission, and are excited about the chance to reshape an industry.

• Verbal and written communication are key. Even more so in a remote-first environment. We cherish those who actively:

  • Contribute to and evolve our documentation.

  • Share their insights, experiences, and novel ideas with the team.

  • Assist fellow engineers during onboarding and foster a collaborative learning environment.

• Candidates with a strong foundation in Python are especially welcome. Your experience with Python will be a significant asset to our team, and we're particularly keen on candidates who have harnessed its capabilities in previous roles. However, we also value adaptability and the breadth of your technical experience.

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