What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineering, Data Platform position at Flock Freight, Inc.?
About Flock Freight
Flock Freight is looking for an experienced and motivated backend engineer to innovate on and optimize our proprietary pooling technology - the heart of the Flock Freight platform. We're leveraging complex algorithms to fundamentally change the way freight moves, we're reimagining a $60B industry, and we're building an inherently sustainable business model that reduces carbon emissions with more efficient logistics solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and tune applications.
- Implement high-quality, well-documented, test-driven, robust, and maintainable code.
- Develop automated tests (unit, integration, performance) and write testable code.
- Participate in the full SDLC in a fast-paced, dynamic, truly agile workflow.
- Analyze requirements and use cases, decomposing them into detailed technical, functional, and implementation tasks with high-level effort estimates; write specification documents as needed.
- Develop new functionality, application components, APIs, and infrastructure.
Requirements
- 3 years of experience as a Software Engineer with excellent knowledge of Java.
- S. degree in Computer Science, or equivalent.
- Track record of releasing highly scalable backend services in a SOA or microservice architecture.
- Experience architecting large-scale, mission critical, fault tolerant, multi-tier web applications.
- Understanding of SOLID design, computational complexity, data structures, client/server architecture, scaling, design trade-offs.
- Database design and architecture.
- Practical application of object-oriented and concurrent programming and use of design patterns.
- GCP, AWS, or equivalent IAAS and PAAS cloud services, containerized production deployments.
- Git, modern IDEs and build/deployment tools.
What We Offer
In addition to salary, full-time employees are also eligible for an equity package and our competitive benefits that support you and your family as part of your total rewards package at Flock Freight. Our policy is that we target candidates local to one of Flock Freight's headquarters locations (San Diego and Chicago).
