Want to build the future of logistics? (Senior backend engineer)

Salary Competitive

Sendify is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to help work on our product. This role will help build and maintain Sendify's core, enabling small businesses to focus on what makes them special, and not on logistics.

Sendify is a platform built to replace the traditional logistics department. It helps standardise booking, pricing, and tracking. It uses a mix of smart technology, clean UI, and a dedicated team to help small businesses to simplify the shipping process. Our vision is to be a full-service logistics platform for small business.

Sendify's head office is currently in Gothenburg, Sweden. We are, however, open to all candidates through Sweden and Germany. 

 

The job

You'll help lend a hand with architecting and building out new features, maintaining existing ones, and being a strong voice for technical debt. You'll keep tabs on and bring forward parts of the developer experience that don't work well. Part of this role is to step away from the code and to give voice to the architecture, guide other engineers, and help shape our roadmap and incoming features with a technical eye.

Our role within Sendify is to produce technology to make our customers' lives easier. To do this, and do this well, we need someone who has a great filter for fluff. We work done that is neat, tidy, well-named, and thoughtfully-abstracted. This is what you'll help us with. Someone who leaves our world a little better than when we found it 🌎

Our stack is Golang. We run on K8S, and lean heavily on AWS for hosting and services to help keep us online. It is not a hard requirement to be familiar with Go; if you have experience in another language, these skills will translate easily. We're happy to help you learn.

 

Some of our actual recent work (and things that are on the menu to be worked on):

  • Moved our high-complexity ImageMagick implementation out of our application and into AWS Lambda. Simplifying our dependencies, and isolating a CPU-bound workload.

  • Diagnosed and debugged an issue with our ERP system where a customer was entering badly formatted data in the wrong field and not returning a correctly formatted error message for our Dashboard.

  • Investigated and agreed as a team to take on technical debt through a DynamoDB integration. This allowed us to ship a feature we're not certain about, and now remains easy to change or remove if needed. Tidy-ups have been scheduled for later in the year to pay the debt down.

  • Dug deep into our pricing algorithm, documenting the pieces, and working with Max on the product team to help understand what is needed.

  • Started generating realtime manifests - aka pickup receipts - for carriers. These are more convenient for our customers, and generated in memory - reducing dependence on file storage.

  • Simplified our CI/CD pipeline, diagnosed and removed an extra build step. Shifted from Debian to Alpine, removing old dependencies and removing legacy build scripts along the way.

  • Migrated our internal load balancers from EC2-classic load balancers to AWS Application Load Balancers. Using K8S to handle the resources and routing.

 

You

We looking for someone who's got experience writing modern backend web services. Someone with a nose for code-smells, has a good sense for architecture, and values simple solutions. You've probably got 5+ years of experience building technology professionally.

We want someone who is not afraid to ask questions and has the wisdom to speak up when there's bad decisions being made. This is someone who can listen carefully, and understands the essence of what is being asked - presenting a technical solution that fits both the problem, and the world. We push to have an open and low-ego environment, where ideas can be suggested freely and where your team takes your thoughts seriously and works to hone them to their best form.

Sendify wants team players - if you're a "lone wolf" with your work, this is not the role for you. You're someone who takes care to explain tough concepts to people from all backgrounds. You should be comfortable giving and receiving feedback on ideas. You understand that we work as a group, and not a collection on individuals.

You, as an engineer, should be happy to get your hands dirty. You should also be comfortable approaching problems from both quantitive and gut-feel approaches. Being comfortable with digging deeper, but also with pushing for a decision when the conversation has come far enough. You are expected to be a self-starter; someone who works towards the goal - taking into account what is said explicitly, but what is also implied.

We do not require a degree or any formal qualifications for this role, and the position is 100% remote. If you live in or around our current offices, you are welcome to join — but this is not a requirement. We are a remote-first team, and will remain this way.

 

Benefits

Join us at the perfect time. If you want to work on a startup in it's most ideal form, now is the time. Sendify knows what it is, and it has the resources to get there — our job now is to get out there and build it. We're a company with huge ambitions, and this is not just talk.

Work with a high integrity and supportive team. Teach, be taught, and learn as you go. You, as an engineer, will be close to the road. This means we feel our wins, and learn from our failures. We have broad experience: expect to learn about different technologies, be part of an upcoming hack-week, dip your toes into new languages or new codebases.

We also work alongside non-engineers: social events, team sports, karaoke (..or not karaoke), and slow summer lunches in the sun ☀️

Have a short decision path. Tech you want to work with? Techniques you've seen? A better way we can do things? This is a good place to test both your eye for what's new, but also for getting it through implementation.

Help develop the team. As we grow, we face new challenges - how should we work together best? How should we architect our systems for scale? What's the most important thing to work on right now? How should we adapt our team shape or technology to be quicker?

We're fair and transparent with salary. This is based on seniority and is standardised within the team. It's important to all roles, and you should not need to fight or negotiate for the same salary as your peers.

 

Application Process

  • 30 minute phone interview with Karin.

  • Personality and logic test.

  • Meet with Dan (Head of Tech)

  • Take home code test*

  • Meet with Dan to talk through the test.

  • Meet with the team (2/3 30-minute conversations)

  • Meet with Erika (Head of People and Culture)

  • Sit on it for a couple of days.

  • Decide whether to move forward or not.

*This is designed to not take long. If you do not have any Go experience, some on-the-fly learning will need to be done. This test is not timed, done in call or monitored in any way.

For more information or questions please contact us at daniel.everts+thehub@sendify.com

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Free friday beers
Free friday beers

Friday is something special, let's enjoy a beer together.

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

Peckish after lunch? We got your back with soft drinks, treats and fruit.

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Working at
Sendify

Built for small businesses looking to save time and money, Sendify is a web-based shipping service that empowers anyone to optimize their supply chain and ship smarter. Most small business owners would rather focus on their business than have to worry about shipping and logistics. Sadly, getting stuff from A to B is still one of their biggest expenses and sources of frustration. One explanation is that the shipping industry has prioritized high volume shippers, leaving small businesses with both complicated systems and unfair rates. We founded Sendify to level the playing field and empower ambitious businesses to ship smarter. With our digital platform, shippers of any size can access pre-negotiated solutions with world leading carriers, taking their supply chains into the future whilst saving an average of 20% on every shipment. Parcel or pallet, across the globe or around the corner, Sendify has you covered. Since our start in 2016, we’ve helped more than 15 000 small businesses around the world spend less time and money on shipping and more time on growing their business. This makes us known as *the* shipping and logistics solution for growing businesses in Sweden and Germany.

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