Software Developer

Client is looking to hire a Software Engineer for a 6-month contract-to-hire role. This is a hybrid position based in Dallas, TX, requiring onsite presence 3 days a week.

About the role

We're expanding our engineering team with a key hire: a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE). Unlike a traditional software engineer, an FDE owns business problems from discovery through production. You'll work directly with engineering, operations, product, implementation, and customer stakeholders to understand operational challenges, design scalable solutions, build them, deploy them, and measure their impact.

You'll solve complex challenges across our logistics platform, including Warehouse Management (WMS), Order Management (OMS), Transportation Management (TMS), Labor Management (LMS), billing, integrations, and AI-powered workflows. This is a high-autonomy role where ambiguity is expected, priorities evolve quickly, and success is measured by business outcomes—not tickets completed.

The product is a new warehouse management and fulfillment platform, the operational backbone for e-commerce brands that ship physical goods. Think inventory control, order routing, carrier integrations, billing, and real-time warehouse operations, all running on software that has to work every time a shipment goes out the door.

Examples of current projects:

• Building an Inventory Transaction Ledger, a self-service audit trail that lets customers see every inventory movement in their account, end to end.
• Standing up ephemeral preview environments so developers can spin up a full isolated copy of the platform per pull request, dramatically shrinking QA cycle time.
• Deepening integrations with carriers (Orderful, Netsuite, LTL, EDI) as new fulfillment channels come online.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with Operations, Product, Customer Success, Implementation, and Engineering teams to solve complex business problems.
• Own initiatives from discovery through production, including solution design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Translate operational workflows into scalable software solutions.
• Build and maintain end-to-end logistics integrations (WMS, OMS, TMS, LMS).
• Develop and support Shopify integrations and iPaaS connectivity.
• Expand our in-house WMS fulfillment platform.
• Design scalable event-driven systems supporting orders, inventory, warehouse events, billing, and fulfillment automation.
• Develop EDI integrations supporting wholesale, retail, freight, and omnichannel customers.
• Build ERP integrations supporting financial synchronization, reconciliation, and operational reporting.
• Enhance billing capabilities including payment processing, auto-recharge, billing rules, and charge validation.
• Develop labor management capabilities including productivity metrics, forecasting, workforce planning, and operational reporting.
• Improve inventory visibility through enhanced traceability, lot control, expiration management, and warehouse analytics.
• Design highly reliable asynchronous processing using Celery and distributed task queues.
• Partner with QA and Infrastructure to improve CI/CD pipelines, observability, monitoring, resilience, and deployment automation.
• Use AI engineering tools (GitHub Copilot, Codex, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) to accelerate software delivery and improve engineering effectiveness.
• Participate in customer implementations, technical discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and operational design discussions when needed.
• Work across the entire platform rather than owning a single service or component.
• Drive technical decisions that improve customer experience and operational efficiency.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent experience demonstrating exceptional ownership, independent delivery, and the ability to rapidly learn new technologies and business domains.
• Strong Python and Django experience, including Django REST Framework.
• Strong PostgreSQL experience, including schema design and performance optimization.
• Experience designing distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Experience building REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth2 integrations, and asynchronous messaging systems.
• Experience working with AWS (EKS, Kubernetes, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, etc.).
• Experience with Celery or comparable asynchronous processing frameworks.
• Understanding of warehouse operations including receiving, put-away, replenishment, picking, packing, shipping, and inventory management.
• Experience integrating with enterprise business systems including WMS, OMS, ERP, TMS, or LMS platforms.
• Experience working directly with cross-functional stakeholders to define technical solutions.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and systems thinking skills.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and business audiences.
• Comfortable operating with incomplete requirements and evolving priorities.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Shopify, BigCommerce, Amazon Marketplace, or similar commerce platforms.
• Experience with NetSuite or other ERP systems.
• Experience with EDI transaction processing.
• Experience with iPaaS platforms (Alloy, Pipe17, Dropstream, etc.).
• Experience with React.
• Experience with ArgoCD, Helm, Kubernetes, GitOps, and cloud-native deployment strategies.
• Experience with Elasticsearch, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or Sentry.
• Experience with AI coding assistants and autonomous development workflows.
• Experience participating in customer-facing implementation or solution architecture discussions.

About The Product

Product is a technology-first third-party logistics (3PL) provider on a mission to empower exceptional customer experiences through seamless, end-to-end fulfillment. Backed by WSI's 60 years of supply chain expertise, Kase combines enterprise logistics reach with modern cloud-native software to power fulfillment for leading e-commerce brands across DTC, wholesale, retail, and omnichannel commerce.

Our platform spans warehouse management, order orchestration, billing, integrations, inventory visibility, and AI-driven operational workflows—all built by a collaborative engineering team focused on solving real customer problems.

Who You Are

• You think like an owner. You don't wait for someone to write perfect requirements before taking action.
• You enjoy working through ambiguity, asking the right questions, and turning messy operational problems into elegant technical solutions.
• You treat software as one part of solving the customer's problem. When a warehouse process is inefficient, you investigate. When an integration is failing, you fix it. When a customer experiences friction, you understand why and improve the system.
• You communicate effectively with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• You know when to lead, when to collaborate, and when to ask for help.
• You move quickly without sacrificing quality, and you naturally balance technical excellence with practical business value.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Own business outcomes—not simply implementation.
• Lead technical discovery before development begins.
• Influence architecture across multiple products and domains.
• Continuously improve engineering quality, observability, documentation, and operational excellence.
• Identify opportunities for automation before someone asks.
• Champion AI-assisted development workflows across the engineering organization.
• Help shape technical strategy alongside engineering leadership.
• Mentor engineers through ownership, design thinking, and technical leadership.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $45.00 - $70.00/hour.

Benefits

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan—Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Schedule

This is a hybrid position in Dallas, TX, requiring onsite presence 3 days a week.