This position is a combination of tooling and product development work, for those engineers who like to tinker with DevOps and tooling but not necessarily full-time, keeping active as well on developing the products. You will work supporting cross-functional teams using agile methodologies. Therefore you will get involved early in the design process. You will make an impact helping to decide what we build and how we build it and creating the tools to make sure we ship it fast and reliably.
You will be responsible for solving problems through technology, creating new tools, features, and products to meet the needs of our customers while keeping in mind the functional needs of highly-scalable and automated systems.
Understanding well the problems, designing sound solutions, architectures and tools, delivering quality code, testing, documenting, deploying, and taking care of cross-platform compatibility will be some of your responsibilities.
Sounds good? Keep reading :)
Your profile
- You enjoy tough challenges, both product-wise and technical, and like to contribute your views.
- You like writing and improving developer tools: infrastructure as code, CI, testing frameworks... You can identify weaknesses in the development cycle and apply iterative solutions to make it faster and more robust.
- You have experience debugging production applications and enjoy hunting hidden bugs, race conditions and weird errors while making sure that next time we're better prepared to avoid having them.
- Solid experience in back-end development and proven experience building and optimizing RESTful APIs. Ideally you have experience with Python/Django, but it's not necessary; we know that good engineers pick new languages and frameworks quickly.
- You care about the product you're building and the problem you're solving, not just about the technology you're using. You take pride in choosing the best technical solution for a problem by taking all constraints into account, instead of chasing the latest shiny not-ready-for-production technology for the sake of it.
- Knowledge designing and developing new services as we separate products from the monolithic platform and build a system that scales. Working experience with Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform is a plus.
- You have a degree (self-learned might work as well but elaborate on how you got your knowledge in computer science) in something like math, engineering, or physics and you have significant knowledge in computer science, networks, algorithms, data structures, and design patterns.
- You enjoy working in a team and appreciate modern development techniques such as code reviews, pair programming, high-coverage testing, DevOps, and automating things. You are polite when reviewing other people's work and take it well when you get feedback on yours.
- You take ownership and pride in your work and want to make a positive impact to our customers. You own what you do from understanding the "why" up until making sure that everything works in production the way it was expected.
- You have reviewed our culture and feel that you fit well there and also we fit well with your personal style and values.
The stack
- We have a decoupled architecture, based on REST APIs and asynchronous services. We work with React in the frontend platforms (customers and admin), native in mobile apps (truck drivers), and Python/Django in the transactional backend. Our DB is PostgreSQL and the queues run on RabbitMQ.
- Our infrastructure as code is built with Kubernetes and deployed on Google Cloud Platform. Every engineer is involved in its maintenance, but you would take a key role in its evolution as a tool.
- We use Jenkins as our main CI system and Datadog and Sentry for observability.
- We use a dedicated ERP to avoid reinventing the wheel there and we also have built a DWH/Analytics platform that takes advantage of external solutions.
The culture
Ontruck's engineers help drive our products from the very roots in a collaborative way. By doing it, we come to value:
- Versatile engineers over highly specialised individuals
- Adding value to our product over adding value to our tech stack
- Rock solid over Rock star
- In production over "my part is done"
- Problem solvers over problem raisers
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
About Ontruck
Ontruck is transforming the road transportation industry, €600 billion just in Europe. We make trucking simple, transparent and on-demand.
Ontruck is a B2B logistics platform, connecting companies looking to move freight with our network of carriers. We offer shippers a web platform to make the process of finding the right truck quick and simple with built-in track and trace. Carriers are able to accept shipments through a mobile app, letting them grow and manage their business with ease.
Our team has deep experience in building great products and companies. We know success, we know failure; we have built platforms from scratch, we have dealt with large legacy systems. We care about each other and about the product and services we are building.
Ontruck is backed by some the top investors in Europe.
To learn more, visit
www.ontruck.com and our blog
nerds.ontruck.com