Backend Engineer
Full Time
Mid Level
3+ years
Posted 2 weeks ago
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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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