CargoSense’s flagship product is a logistics intelligence platform that enables shippers of freight to source data from their supply chains in real time, and use that data in day-to-day operations and business strategy. Logistics underpins almost every industry and activity, and the approach CargoSense takes to providing visibility into logistics though measurement and software is transforming companies and industries. We’ve seen dramatic growth in our business over the last year, and we presently have several openings to fill on our engineering team.
About us
CargoSense was an early adopter of Elixir (v0.14) and uses Elixir as a core part of its API (GraphQL) and even UI (LiveView). We’ve got a great team of people who value high quality communication, interesting problems, and building great products.
My name: Ben Wilson
My position: CTO
Company name: CargoSense
Website: https://www.cargosense.com/
Country: USA
About the job
Job title: (Senior/Intermediate/Junior) Developer
Job description:
This opening is on our Core Platform team. This team is responsible for the primary data processing, warehousing, and logistics modeling that powers our logistics intelligence capabilities, as well as the APIs that our satellite apps consume. The tech stack this team works in centers around PostgreSQL (with TimescaleDB), Elixir (with Phoenix and its LiveView capabilities), and GraphQL.
Salary range: $105k-$170k (depends on experience, skillset)
Position on remote work: We are 100% remote, and accepting candidates from the USA (direct employment) and Canada, EU / GB, and South America by contract.
Relevant Experience
We’re looking for creative people that enjoy problem solving, aim to deliver quality software, and work well with others.
For more junior positions, ideal candidates have at least some of the following experience:
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Some previous experience with a backend web server language / framework, preferably Elixir or Ruby/Rails.
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Basic competancy with foundational developer tools like git.
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Some familiarity with relational databases.
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Basic HTML / CSS / JS skills.
For more senior positions, ideal candidates have at least some of the following experience:
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Established familiarity with Elixir and its ecosystem.
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Experience scoping and managing projects.
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An interest in mentoring or collaborating with others.
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PostgreSQL
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DevOps, in particular Kubernetes.
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Familiarity with production debugging, metrics, and other monitoring.
About the interview process
Please email me at ben.wilson@cargosense.com if you are interested, or alternatively message me directly on this forum.
We’ll setup a time to chat and get a sense of what you’re looking for and who we are. If it seems like there is a good fit we’ll have a few more conversations with other members of the team and go from there.
There will not be any live code exercises or similar.
P.S. We are also hiring developers for Ruby on Rails positions.