Description: project44 is looking for a
Senior Software Engineer - Backend to join our engineering team. You will work in a fast-paced Agile environment designing, building, and implementing best-in-class integrations to accelerate how project44 connects to the world's logistics networks.
Key accountabilities: What you'll work on- Design, build, and operate backend systems that power decision intelligence capabilities, using AI and analytics to help customers make informed, timely, and confident supply chain decisions
- Build services and workflows that reduce manual effort and enable action, empowering customers to collaborate more effectively with carriers and partners across the supply chain
- Own and modernize core platform services, such as identity and access management (IAM) and search infrastructure, ensuring they remain secure, scalable, and extensible as new decision intelligence capabilities are introduced
- Transform large-scale logistics data into actionable insights and outcomes, supporting use cases such as recommendations, decision support, and automated actions
- Partner closely with product, data, and design to translate ambiguous customer problems into well-scoped, scalable technical solutions
- Build and operate systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), leveraging managed services to deliver reliable and scalable backend solutions
- Take shared ownership of development, testing, deployment, and operations for the systems owned by your team
- Participate in a team on-call rotation, debugging and resolving issues across your team's services
- Improve observability, monitoring, and operational tooling to ensure system reliability and a strong on-call experience
- Contribute to technical design discussions, code reviews, and documentation, helping set a high bar for quality and maintainability within the team
- Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance
Qualities- Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical decisions through design docs, discussions, and reviews, and collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical partners
- A strong analytical approach to problem-solving, with comfort navigating ambiguity and making tradeoffs explicit
- A sense of ownership, curiosity, and resilience - comfortable voicing ideas, incorporating feedback, and iterating toward better solutions
Qualifications- 4+ years of professional experience building large-scale, cloud-based systems
- Strong programming and debugging skills with proficiency in Java
Experience in:- Designing and building scalable Java-based microservices
- Designing and consuming APIs and web services (REST, OpenAPI/Swagger)
- Working with databases, including NoSQL and/or relational databases (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB, Postgres, or similar)
- Working in an Agile software development environment
- Using AI-assisted development tools for code generation, refactoring, and debugging (e.g., Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar)
- Integrating AI-assisted workflows into daily development while maintaining high standards for code quality, security, and correctness
Desirable and helpful (but not necessary) are experience in:- Building event-driven systems and stream-processing pipelines (Kafka, Kinesis, or similar)
- Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Designing or working with agentic AI systems, including multi-step or autonomous LLM-powered workflows
- Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks or patterns (e.g., task planning, tool invocation, stateful agents, workflow orchestration)
- Building platform or framework-level solutions that enable AI-driven automation and decision-making
Work Authorization: Candidates must be authorised to work in the US without current or future employer-sponsored visa support.
In-office Commitment: Our office is where ideas spark, connections thrive, and innovation comes alive. We are looking for candidates who are enthusiastic and committed to joining our team on-site, in our beautiful headquarters
Three days a week. Together, we're building something extraordinary-learn, grow, and thrive in our fast-paced, transformative environment.
