Senior Software Engineer

Why

At project44 we believe in better and is what better looks like for thelogisticsservice provider market.

For years project44 focused on global shippers as our core customer. That focus worked. Our Shipper business is a category leader growing 20% year-over-year. That strength is what makes the next chapter possible.

Shippers and LSPs are fundamentally different businesses. Shippers buylogisticssoftware to support their core operations. Logistics Service Providers freight forwarders brokers and 3PLs selllogisticsas their product. Their software is their competitive edge. They buy fastbuild onAPIs and agents and reward teams that ship in weeks not quarters.

This is why we created : a dedicated AI-native division built to serve the LSP market with the focus speed and resources it scope and ownership of an AI startup backed by the infrastructure of a $124M business 259K carriers billions of shipment outcomes agents in production and direct access to project44s data graph carrier network and enterprise relationships.

This is a small hand-picked teamoperatingacross Chicago San FranciscoBangalore and the EU. Flat org. Forward-deployed engineering. AI coding tools across the workflow. Agents as the product surface. Customers who pilot in weeks and tell you what they think directly.

The LSP market is moving fast. AI agent startups are growing 300% year-over-year and seven of eightsellto LSPs. We have the data position the platform the customers and now the the engineers who will build it with us.

AI at project44

We expect every project44 team member regardless of role or function to actively leverage AI in their day-to-day work. Whether youre building product serving customers managing people or running operations AI is a tool youre expected to use with intent curiosity and judgment. We dont expect everyone to be a data scientist. We do expect everyone to be an intelligent user of AI: able to identify where it adds value direct it effectively evaluate outputs critically and govern it responsibly. We invest in our teams AI fluency because we believe its a competitive advantage for every person at project44 not just our engineers

If youre driven to solve meaningful problems leverage AI to scale rapidly drive impact daily and be part of a high-performance team we should talk.

The Role

You will work in a fast-paced Agile environment designing building and operating backend systems that power decision intelligence capabilities forlogisticsservice providers. Youwontbe a cog in a large engineering machine youllbe close to the product close to customers and shipping things that matter.

What Youll Work On

• Design build andoperatebackend systems that power decision intelligence capabilities using AI and analytics to help LSP customers make informedtimely and confident supply chain decisions

• Build services and workflows that reduce manual effort and enable action helping customers collaborate more effectively with carriers and partners

• Own and modernize core platform services such as identity and access management (IAM) and search infrastructurekeeping themsecure scalable and extensible as new AI capabilities are introduced

• Transform large-scalelogisticsdata into actionable insights supporting recommendations decision support and automated actions

• Partner closely with product data and design to translate ambiguous customer problems into well-scoped scalable technical solutions

• Build andoperatesystems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) leveraging managed services for reliable scalable backend delivery

• Take shared ownership of development testing deployment and operations for your teams systems

• Participate in on-call rotation debugging and resolving issues across your teams services

• Improve observability monitoring and operational tooling to ensure system reliability

• Contribute to technical design discussions code reviews and documentation setting a high bar for quality and maintainability

• Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews pairing and technical guidance

What Were Looking For

Qualifications

• 5 years of professional experience building large-scale cloud-based systems

• Strong programming and debugging skills withproficiencyin Java

• Experience designing and building scalable Java-based microservices

• Experience designing and consuming APIs and web services (RESTOpenAPI/Swagger)

• Experience working with NoSQL and/or relational databases (MongoDB DynamoDB Postgres or similar)

• Experience working in an Agile software development environment

• Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools (Cursor Claude GitHub Copilot or similar) whilemaintaininghigh standardsfor code quality and correctness

Nice to Have

• Event-driven systems and stream-processing pipelines (Kafka Kinesis or similar)

• Containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes)

• Experience designing or working with agentic AI systems multi-step or autonomous LLM-powered workflows

• Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks or patterns: task planning tool invocation stateful agents workflow orchestration

• Building platform or framework-level solutions that enable AI-driven automation and decision-making

How You Work

• Clear communicator you can explain technical decisions through design docs discussions and reviews and work well with both technical and non-technical partners

• Analytical and comfortable with ambiguity you make tradeoffs explicit and navigate uncertainty without waiting to be told what to do

• Strong senseof ownership you voice ideas take feedback and iterate toward better solutions

Work Authorization: Candidates must be authorised to work in the US without current or future employer-sponsored visa support.

In-office Commitment:Our office is where ideas spark connections thrive and innovation comes alive. We are looking for candidates who are enthusiastic and committedto joining our team on-sitein our beautiful headquarters 3 days a week. Together were building something extraordinarylearn grow and thrive in our fast-paced transformative environment.

We continually evaluate our pay ranges to reflect skills experience and market conditions. The base salary offered will be determined by assessing a candidates experience and skills relative to the scope and responsibilities of the position as well as the specific geographic location where the job will be performed. Base salary is one component of project44s total compensation package which also includes stock options for all EOR and project44-employed team members bonus or commission eligibility depending on role and a benefits package tailored to your country of employment. Specific benefits package offerings vary by country and may include health dental and vision coverage retirement plans and paid time off in line with local market standards and statutory programs. The base salary range for this position is USD130000 USD190000

Diversity & Inclusion

At project44weredesigning the future of how the world moves. As we work to deliver a truly world-class productwereintentionally building teams that reflect the unique communities we on creating a company where all team members can bring their authenticselvesto work every day.

project44 is an equal opportunity employer. If you share our values and passion for the future oflogisticswedlove to review your application. Even if youdontmeet 100% of the requirements please consider applying studies show you can still be a strong candidate at 50%.

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