Backend Engineer
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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
* Required skills
Benefits
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.