Software Engineer II

About the role

The Software Engineer II plays a crucial role in enhancing and innovating ODW Logistics' Transportation Management System (TMS). This position involves designing, developing, testing, and supporting enhancements to the TMS platform, which includes backend services and a modern web frontend for freight operations.

Responsibilities

• Designs and codes features and services across the TMS platform, working across backend, frontend, and database layers.
• Maintains and modifies existing applications under direction from senior staff members and provides guidance to junior team members.
• Develops REST APIs with auto-generated documentation, ensuring consistency with the team's API-first approach.
• Follows best practices for architecture including repository patterns, dependency injection, and domain-driven design.
• Participates in defining and implementing technical direction for assigned features and components.
• Contributes to CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, building, and deployment across multiple environments.
• Supports production applications, including monitoring and troubleshooting issues across the application stack.
• Provides support for production applications, including monitoring and troubleshooting issues across the application stack.
• Contributes to the success of projects by applying demonstrated knowledge of the platform and technology stack.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in Computer Science or related program, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• Experience providing direction and mentorship to other engineers.
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language, with the ability to work across the full stack.
• Experience building modern web applications with a component-based frontend framework.
• Solid experience writing and optimizing SQL for relational databases.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs.
• Proficiency with Git version control and pull request-based workflows.
• Comfort working with containerized development and deployment environments.
• Nice to have: Experience with Go (Golang), Angular and TypeScript, Microsoft SQL Server, Docker and container orchestration, message queue systems, caching layers, observability tools, CI/CD pipelines, or EDI.
• Experience in the transportation, logistics, or supply chain industry, including concepts such as freight rating, load planning, carrier management, EDI, or shipment tracking.

Qualifications

• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and within a team.

Skills and Background

• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and within a team.

Physical & Mental Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee requires the ability to: Hear, read and comprehend, write and communicate.
• Continuous sitting, typing, and performing repetitive wrist motion.
• Sometimes standing, walking, bending, squatting/kneeling, twisting/turning, or reaching.
• Focusing (with or without corrective lenses) to see close and distant, along with depth perception capabilities.
• Lifting up to 40 lbs.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in Computer Science or related program, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• Experience providing direction and mentorship to other engineers.
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language, with the ability to work across the full stack.
• Experience building modern web applications with a component-based frontend framework.
• Solid experience writing and optimizing SQL for relational databases.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs.
• Proficiency with Git version control and pull request-based workflows.
• Comfort working with containerized development and deployment environments.
• Nice to have: Experience with Go (Golang), Angular and TypeScript, Microsoft SQL Server, Docker and container orchestration, message queue systems, caching layers, observability tools, CI/CD pipelines, or EDI.
• Experience in the transportation, logistics, or supply chain industry, including concepts such as freight rating, load planning, carrier management, EDI, or shipment tracking.

Our Values

• Pillared on our core values, we strive for collective growth and reaching our highest potential.
• We are dedicated to helping our teammates experience fulfillment through their individual strengths and innovative ideas.
• Respect | Give and it will be given. We treat others as we want to be treated. We cannot control events, but we can control our response. We build respect through honesty, fairness, and integrity.
• Trust | Earned over time. We do what we say we will do. We are clear, direct, and honest. We seek to understand and be understood.
• Team | Accomplish more together. We work hard toward a common goal. We desire to make everyone successful. We achieve the best results as a team.
• Opportunity | Realize your potential. We believe all people have significance and potential. We understand work and life are integrated and we value both. We strive to make an impact in the world around us.

Equal Opportunity Employer

ODW Logistics is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at ODW Logistics are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status. ODW Logistics will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.