Senior Backend Engineer - Spain

Full Time
Barcelona, Spain
11 months ago

sennder is Europe’s leading digital freight forwarder. In a traditional industry, we are moving fast to digitize and automate all road logistics processes. We move trucks with courage and the power of data to unlock endless and sustainable capacity at exceptional quality. Get to know us better by reviewing our "About Us" presentation.  

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Workflows team in Spain as part of sennder’s Brokerage Services department. The Workflows team is mainly a backend team that consists of 5 engineers of various levels (junior to senior), an engineering manager, a staff engineer and a technical product manager. Our current eNPS/engagement score is 100%. Our mission is to continuously increase brokerage operations efficiency, accuracy, and automation level using our workflow platform.

WHAT YOU WILL DO …

  • Build new and improve existing services using Python and various technologies (e.g. Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Terraform, Docker, k8s).
  • Contribute to our architectural vision and standards as a peer in our healthy, smart, hungry, and open-minded engineering team.
  • Deploy services often with GitLab to AWS and monitor them with Datadog and Sentry.
  • Make data-driven decisions with Snowflake and Looker. Be engaged in prioritization and planning of our product.
  • Define standards and best practices in close collaboration with the team. 
  • Become a mentor for other engineers and share your expertise.
  • Grow 🚀We have both technical and management development tracks

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR …

  • A strong technical background, including 5+ years of experience designing and engineering large-scale distributed systems (web, event-based, etc).
  • Experience working in highly engaged agile teams that focus on outcomes, not outputs.
  • Experience working with our tech stack (Python, Postgres, Kafka, AWS to name a few). Or excited to learn it!
  • Self-drive to find solutions to complex problems seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations.
  • Preference for simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale.

 

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT…

At sennder, we want to maximize the individual potential of all employees and reinforce an inclusive culture and environment of continuous learning that empowers people to succeed as a team. In addition to humility, we value commitment, team spirit and respect to build fruitful collaboration across teams. Learn more about who we are on our career site. 

  • Fast growth scale-up with an international team of 1000+ people, 74+ nationalities spread across 11 European offices. With English as our common language, we are able to work together.
  • Learning and development on the job and with the support of a bi-annual review process, learning allowance, high potential programs, sennder onboarding academy, and internal trainings. 
  • Various opportunities to connect with colleagues through regular team events and company get-togethers such as our highly anticipated sennder Summer Camp.
  • Prioritize employee engagement and mental well-being by fostering a supportive environment through the Likeminded platform and conducting regular employee satisfaction surveys. 
  • Hybrid work model where you seamlessly merge virtual productivity and in-office collaboration with your colleagues. 
  • Commuter allowance to assist employees with their daily travel expenses and a one-time home office benefit to ensure that you're properly equipped wherever you work.
  • Competitive compensation package including objective-based bonus, referral reward, and in some cases virtual option plan.

We value humility and we're as interested in your character as we are in your talent. Please apply, even if you feel you only meet part of our listed criteria. Diversity drives our innovation and we offer a collaborative, dynamic, and international work environment. Just be yourself. We are excited to meet you and for you to join us in shaping the future of the logistics industry in Europe.

If you have any questions or need special accommodation please reach out to us at ta@sennder.com. As soon as you apply your journey with sennder begins.