Filled
This offer is not available anymore

Senior Back-end Engineer - Typescript in Barcelona

sennder

Workplace
Onsite
Hours
Full-Time
Internship
No
Share offer

Job Description

sennder is digitalising Europe's logistics. We are a growing team looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help us on our journey to revolutionize road freight logistics. You would join our Programmatic Team in the Barcelona office (flexible remote options)

We value humility and we're as interested in your character as we are in your talent. Please apply, even if you feel you only meet part of our listed criteria. Diversity drives our innovation and we offer a collaborative, dynamic, and international work environment. Just be yourself. We are excited to meet you and for you to join us in shaping the future of the logistics industry in Europe.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll work on designing and executing one or more core services, which have high priority to sennder’s growth. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in the design of our microservices architecture, and the flexibility to optimize and improve existing code.

You’ll be part of the Programmatic team (6-8 people) responsible for the integration between sennder and shippers’ TMS (Transport Management System). This team will have a great impact on automating our operations. You will have the autonomy to own the technical solution from requirements to delivery. Our DevOps culture means that you own the entire infrastructure (end-to-end), supported by our dedicated platform team.

Our current stack includes Typescript, AWS serverless (Lambdas, Eventbridge, DynamoDB, API Gateway), Kafka, Docker, K8S, Terraform, and GitLab.

In this role you will

  • Scale up our serverless architecture by integrating 3rd party APIs
  • Develop a robust microservice architecture. Currently, we are implementing service mesh, stable interfaces, metrics, and contracts for APIs
  • Take a lead role in architecture’s design
  • Lead mid-size projects from beginning to end
  • Improve engineering standards, and processes to constantly increase efficiency
  • Drive quality across the stack, following solid principles while providing detailed feedback to our colleagues
  • Ensure effective communication with other pods and stakeholders
  • Work closely with the product manager to plan shippable features for launch
  • Define and evolve best practices for development in your team's area of focus
  • Care about operational excellence, metrics, measurability and performance, and data-driven decision making

Preferably you have

  • Good practical experience (+5 years) in building backends applications
  • Solid knowledge in interpreted languages such as Python, Typescript / Javascript, Ruby or PHP and interest in coding with Typescript
  • Practical experience with microservice event-based architecture
  • API-first! You know how to build modern RESTAPIs, fully documented by OpenAPI/Swagger
  • You can talk to databases. We use DynamoDB and DocumentDB in our team
  • You keep growing your knowledge of different architectures, patterns, and programming paradigms,
  • Solid experience in testing and modern CI/CD
  • Good communication skills in English

ABOUT sennder

sennder is moving trucks with the power of data to unlock endless and sustainable capacity at unparalleled quality. Through our proprietary transportation operating system, built by our in-house tech teams, we not only connect shippers to our fleet of thousands of trucks, but also improve how they move products in sustainable, cost-efficient, and transparent ways - making the logistics industry fit for the future. In a traditional industry, we’re growing and moving fast to digitally automate all road logistics processes.

We are building a curious team that is driven by an ambitious desire to solve the toughest logistics puzzles. What others may consider uncertainty, we see as an opportunity to learn and be proactive. We invite you to go on this journey with us and be part of one of Europe’s inspiring growth stories as we fast-forward road logistics into digitalization. Get to know us, our culture, green business, funding history, and more on our blog here.

What you can expect

At sennder, we want to maximize the individual’s potential for all employees and reinforce an inclusive culture and environment of continuous learning that empowers people to succeed as a team. In addition to humility, we value commitment, team spirit, respect, and kindness to build trusted relationships across teams.

  • A fast-growing, start-up-oriented international team of 1000+ people with 65+ nationalities spread across 8 country offices with English as our company language.
  • Continuous feedback and bi-annual review process for personal development, professional growth, and career opportunities. We also use “Objectives and Key Results” for company goals.
  • A structured promotion process, providing everyone with fair and transparent career growth.
  • Learning and development opportunities on the job and through conversations with your manager.
  • Various opportunities to connect with colleagues, formally and informally, digitally or in-person (when allowed), through regular team events, company get-togethers, and partnership events with other companies and local organizers.
  • Flex/hybrid remote working options.
  • When in office: unlimited snacks, drinks, and fruits.
  • All interviews are currently conducted on a remote basis.

Please send your application in English and help us reduce negative unconscious bias by leaving out your picture, age, address, and other unnecessary information in your CV. We only want to know the merits on which you’d be great for this role.


 

About sennder

  • Logistics

  • Berlin, Germany

  • 1,000 - 5,000

  • 2015

.

Other backend developer jobs that might interest you...