What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer, Algorithms Engineering position at Flock Freight?
- Work on horizontally scaling network optimization algorithms that enable execution of Shared Truckload opportunities.
- 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
- Work both personally and in a highly collaborative environment
- 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
- Utilize relational database tools (SQL/SQL-92, MySQL, or similar RDBMS) to manage and monitor application state and user data
- Apply modern open source tools and frameworks where appropriate
- Make recommendations regarding the development of new code, reuse or refactoring of existing code, and use of 3rd party and/or open source frameworks
- Take part in the interviewing and consideration of potential new team members
- Provide guidance and technical mentorship to new Flockers
- 3 years of experience as a Software Engineer with excellent knowledge of Java
- B.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 (e.g. Maven, SBT, Docker)
- Exceptional problem solving, analysis, decomposition, and communication skills
- Assimilating new information, understanding complex topics, and using judgement to make sound technical choices
- End-to-end debugging, performance tuning, and monitoring
Compensation
The expected range for this position is $140,000-164,000 per year. This range reflects typical earning potential in this role. When determining an offer, we take into account a variety of factors that are important in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to: skill sets; experience and tenure; education and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate is based on market data. Salary bands may, in some circumstances, be adjusted to a different geographic area depending on the candidate's position and location.
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).
Salary : $140,000 - $164,000
