Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Chișinău, Moldova

Department: Engineering

About the Role

Join Alvys, an early-stage company ambitiously transforming the $800B US freight industry. As a Backend Engineer, you will lead the development and operation of our cutting-edge SaaS platform, playing a critical role in enhancing freight transportation logistics. Your leadership will streamline processes and drive significant advancements in a sector crucial for the movement of goods, leveraging your extensive experience in backend development and team leadership to elevate our engineering practices and product capabilities.

This role is ideal for a technical leader skilled in API design, database technologies, and operational system development. Your role will be crucial in integrating technical solutions with advanced research and data methodologies to drive efficiency, optimize complex operational challenges.

Industry Insight

Transportation logistics, a complex and fragmented domain, is ripe for technological revolution. You'll be at the forefront of automating and standardizing a sector that moves trillions of dollars' worth of goods annually, predominantly by truck, yet lacks modern tools and solutions.

About Alvys

Alvys is on a mission to revolutionize transportation logistics. Combining hands-on industry experience with a world-class technical vision, we're building a multi-tenant SaaS platform that's becoming an essential tool for transportation companies.

Our Principles

• Engineering Excellence: We're committed to a principled approach, blending the best of practical and theoretical techniques to ensure superior code quality and architecture.
• End-to-End Ownership: Our collaborative environment ensures that if you build it, you run it.
• Blameless Culture: We focus on ownership and learning from mistakes in a supportive, finger-pointing-free environment.
• Core Values: Trust, transparency, and fairness are not just our company values—they're also the solution to the industry's underlying problems.

Responsibilities:

• Development: develop features and infrastructure components for the platform.
• Operations: monitor the platform in production, debug and manage incidents, maximize reliability.
• Communication: communicate development status, requirements, technical specifications, proposals, best practices.
• Engineering Excellence: facilitate engineering excellence across the team, including code quality, testing, system architecture, performance & reliability, capacity planning.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with parallel & concurrent programming, including an understanding of the tradeoffs between consistency models, throughput & latency, asynchrony & synchrony;
• Ability to analyze and react to operational metrics (throughput, latency, error rate, queue depth, etc);
• Willingness to learn a complex domain, apply sophisticated engineering techniques, and operate as part of a team;
• Experience with our tech stack is appreciated, but not required;
• Preferred Technical Qualifications;
• Azure: we are cloud native and run on Azure;
• .NET/C#: back-end systems are written in C# it is a must;
• CosmosDB: our source-of-truth data store and event log;
• Understanding and applying "Clean code" practices;
• Cognitive Search: used for search and reporting functions;
• Blobs, Tables, Queues: used for document storage as well as caches of external data;
• Functions, Logic Apps: simple automation tasks JavaScript;
• Functions, Logic Apps: simple automation tasks Typescript/Angular, React: Web Ul/UX (an advantage);
• Dart/Flutter: Native Ul/UX;
• Service Fabric: systems involving colocation of state and compute;
• Azure Monitor & Application Insights: system and infrastructure monitoring and alerting;
• Integrations: integrations with various types of services, including geolocation, E D, mapping, routing, as well as partner companies such as shippers, brokers, etc.

SOFT SKILLS: 

• Fluent English
• Ability to quickly ramp up on multiple technology areas
• Open to give and receive feedback
• Proactive and result-driven
• Strong customer focus
• Kind, smart, gets things done

We offer:

• Official and competitive salary in USA$;
• Private medical insurance;
• Hybrid/Remote work model;
• Regular revisions of remuneration package;
• Budget for Sports and Learning and Development
• Work in an international environment within a professional in-house team of engineers;
• Chisinau city center location;
• Corporate and team building events for employees.