Backend Engineer

Vorto Denver, CO $120,000 - $500,000
Full Time Mid Level 3+ years

Posted 2 weeks ago

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About This Role

As a Backend Engineer, you will solve complex challenges in legacy supply chains by designing, building, and operating mission-critical services that transform freight movement. You will embed AI agents, stabilize high-volume systems, and automate workflows to eliminate manual work.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate services used daily by shippers, carriers, and drivers
  • Automate developer-dependent tasks to accelerate internal and customer automation efforts
  • Embed AI/LLMs to automate decision-making and super-charge developer productivity
  • Stabilize backend services
  • Own problems end to end

Requirements

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production systems at scale
  • Strong background in product driven backend development
  • Deep understanding of what makes systems performant, scalable, and maintainable
  • Fluency with SQL schema design and data modeling for transactional & analytical workloads
  • Demonstrated ability to leverage LLMs/AI agents to boost velocity and solve novel problems
  • Superior product reasoning skills
  • Exceptional written & verbal communication; able to align technical decisions with business outcomes

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production systems at scale.

Nice to Have

  • Proven track record of owning problems end to end
  • Startup experience
  • Experience stabilizing and scaling large code bases

Skills

Python * SQL * AI agents * Golang * LLMs * GCP * Vertex AI * Postgres * Redis *

* Required skills

Benefits

Health Insurance
Paid Time Off
Tuition assistance
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Company-paid parking or RTD pass
Industry's best hardware and productivity software
Dental Insurance
Holidays
401k retirement plan with company match
Company-paid short-term disability insurance
Free or discounted legal program
Vision Insurance
Company Paid Life Insurance
Competitive compensation package
Flex and Health Savings Plans
Voluntary income protection benefits including Life, AD&D, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, and Accident Protection Insurance

About Vorto

Vorto is on a mission to improve America’s Supply Chain efficiency and sustainability using AI technology to reduce empty miles and idle time created in matching shippers and truckers.

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