Software Engineer
Work on exciting projects with cutting-edge technology. Contribute to software development and architecture.
Job Description
The Software Engineer builds the systems our coordinators, clearance team and customers actually work in — tracking, rating, document handling and the integrations that connect carriers, customs brokers and warehouse systems. This is a contract engagement based in Chicago, working close to operations rather than at a distance from them.
Job responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend services for tracking, rating and documents.
- Integrate carrier, customs broker and warehouse systems, legacy EDI included.
- Model freight data so milestones, rates and documents stay consistent.
- Design APIs that tolerate third-party systems behaving badly.
- Keep production reliable, observable and safe to deploy on a busy day.
- Migrate legacy integrations without interrupting live shipments.
- Record architecture decisions and the reasoning behind them.
- Hand over documented, maintainable code at the end of the engagement.
Logistics software fails in unglamorous ways — a missing milestone, a duplicated document, a rate that quietly went stale. The value of this role is in noticing those failure modes before a customer does.
Qualification
- 4+ years building production backend services.
- Strong SQL and relational data modelling; event-driven experience welcome.
- Practical API design skills and patience for third-party integrations that misbehave.
- Comfortable with cloud infrastructure, CI and observability tooling.
- Bonus: exposure to EDI, freight rating, or customs data formats.
Duties
- Deliver against an agreed contract scope with regular, reviewable increments.
- Keep production reliable and on-call handovers clean.
- Migrate legacy integrations without interrupting live shipments.
- Contribute to architecture decisions and record the reasoning.
- Hand over documented, maintainable code at the end of the engagement.
Conclusion
Freight is a domain where correctness has a shipping cost attached. If you like problems where the feedback loop is measured in containers rather than clicks, you will enjoy this one.
Answers before you ask.
The questions every new shipper sends us first. Anything else — your coordinator answers within the hour, day or night.
Q—01
Within one business day, and usually within hours. Send origin, destination, commodity, and rough dimensions — the network desk returns routed options with mode, transit time, and a full landed cost, not just a freight rate.
Q—02
Within one business day, and usually within hours. Send origin, destination, commodity, and rough dimensions — the network desk returns routed options with mode, transit time, and a full landed cost, not just a freight rate.
Q—03
Within one business day, and usually within hours. Send origin, destination, commodity, and rough dimensions — the network desk returns routed options with mode, transit time, and a full landed cost, not just a freight rate.
Q—04
Within one business day, and usually within hours. Send origin, destination, commodity, and rough dimensions — the network desk returns routed options with mode, transit time, and a full landed cost, not just a freight rate.
Q—05
Within one business day, and usually within hours. Send origin, destination, commodity, and rough dimensions — the network desk returns routed options with mode, transit time, and a full landed cost, not just a freight rate.
Ready to move? Get a routed quote in one business day.
Tell us what you're shipping and where it needs to be. A coordinator — not a bot — will reply with routing options and a landed cost.