Senior Software Engineer, project44
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3 days a week in office
Real-time supply chain visibility platform
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Real-time supply chain visibility platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To enable a world where supply chains are resilient, intelligent, and proactive, because when supply chains work better, businesses thrive, and communities prosper.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re driven to solve meaningful problems, leverage AI to scale rapidly, drive impact daily, and be part of a high-performance team – we should talk
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical decisions through design docs, discussions, and reviews, and collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical partners
- A strong analytical approach to problem-solving, with comfort navigating ambiguity and making tradeoffs explicit
- A sense of ownership, curiosity, and resilience - comfortable voicing ideas, incorporating feedback, and iterating toward better solutions
- 4+ years of professional experience building large-scale, cloud-based systems
- Strong programming and debugging skills with proficiency in Java
- Experience in:
- Designing and building scalable Java-based microservices
- Designing and consuming APIs and web services (REST, OpenAPI/Swagger)
- Working with databases, including NoSQL and/or relational databases (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB, Postgres, or similar)
- Working in an Agile software development environment
- Using AI-assisted development tools for code generation, refactoring, and debugging (e.g., Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar)
- Integrating AI-assisted workflows into daily development while maintaining high standards for code quality, security, and correctness
- Even if you don’t meet 100% of the above job description you should still seriously consider applying. Studies show that you can still be considered for a role if you meet just 50% of the role’s requirements
Desirable
- Desirable and helpful (but not necessary) are experience in:
- Building event-driven systems and stream-processing pipelines (Kafka, Kinesis, or similar)
- Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Designing or working with agentic AI systems, including multi-step or autonomous LLM-powered workflows
- Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks or patterns (e.g., task planning, tool invocation, stateful agents, workflow orchestration)
- Building platform or framework-level solutions that enable AI-driven automation and decision-making
What the job involves
- We challenge the status quo because we know a better supply chain isn’t just possible—it’s essential. Better for our customers
- Better for their business. Better for the world. With our Decision Intelligence Platform, Movement, we’re redefining how global supply chains operate
- By transforming fragmented logistics data into real-time, AI-powered insights, we empower companies to connect instantly, see clearly, act decisively, and automate intelligently
- Our Supply Chain AI enhances visibility, drives smarter execution, and unlocks next-gen applications that keep businesses moving forward
- Headquartered in Chicago, IL with a 2nd HQ in Bengaluru, India we are powered by a diverse global team that is tackling the toughest logistics challenges with innovation, urgency, and purpose
- Project44 is looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Backend to join our engineering team. You will work in a fast-paced Agile environment designing, building, and implementing best-in-class integrations to accelerate how project44 connects to the world’s logistics networks
- Design, build, and operate backend systems that power decision intelligence capabilities, using AI and analytics to help customers make informed, timely, and confident supply chain decisions
- Build services and workflows that reduce manual effort and enable action, empowering customers to collaborate more effectively with carriers and partners across the supply chain
- Own and modernize core platform services, such as identity and access management (IAM) and search infrastructure, ensuring they remain secure, scalable, and extensible as new decision intelligence capabilities are introduced
- Transform large-scale logistics data into actionable insights and outcomes, supporting use cases such as recommendations, decision support, and automated actions
- Partner closely with product, data, and design to translate ambiguous customer problems into well-scoped, scalable technical solutions
- Build and operate systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), leveraging managed services to deliver reliable and scalable backend solutions
- Take shared ownership of development, testing, deployment, and operations for the systems owned by your team
- Participate in a team on-call rotation, debugging and resolving issues across your team’s services
- Improve observability, monitoring, and operational tooling to ensure system reliability and a strong on-call experience
- Contribute to technical design discussions, code reviews, and documentation, helping set a high bar for quality and maintainability within the team
- Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance
Our take
There currently exists a huge amount of pressure on supply chains across almost every industry, resulting in a demand for streamlined solutions. Businesses are attempting to future-proof their supply chains by identifying bottlenecks that lead to logistic breakdowns, but with the market being so volatile, this is difficult to manage.
project44 provides a digital platform that aims to improve communication between logistics companies, transportation providers, and supply chain systems. The platform consists of a variety of modular API tools that can be employed to produce real-time data and predictive analytics. This helps provide insights into shipment arrival times, supply chain bottlenecks, and opportunities to increase efficiency.
Many startups have released software platforms that aim to prepare companies and their supply chains. However, project44 has taken a unique approach by presenting a more versatile solution to the volatility of supply chain demands. The company has kept up with the growing market by launching new products and updates, expanding geographically, and building its leadership team, all of which have put it in a good place to find success into the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Oct 2022
$80m
LATE VC
Jan 2022
$420m
LATE VC
Total funding: $892.5m
Company HQ
River North, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Jett McCandless
(Founder & CEO)They started their career with 7 years at YRC Freight before spending 5 years at GlobalTranz. They then founded CarrierDirect in 2011, before starting project44 as CEO.
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