Backend Developer

Senvo is a young start-up working on changing the face of last mile logistics. We enable logistics companies, e-commerce providers and producers to ship goods more effectively and efficiently. We are a tight-knit team of highly driven and smart people who are supportive of each other, passionate about technology, and compassionate with our users.

The logistics domain is complex and challenging, offering great space for creativity and ingenuity, while at the same time requiring efficient communication because of the numerous external systems and stakeholders. This is why we highly value a combination of creativity and problem-solving skills. Every team member is encouraged to stay in close contact with our customers and partners, come up with innovative and bold solutions, and work in a self-driven manner to bring their ideas to fruition. We practice over-communication to make sure everyone understands the driving factors of our business, and how tech is guided by them.

Tech Stack
We rely heavily on Python and PostgreSQL on the backend, using modern libraries and tools such as FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, poetry and pydantic. The frontend SPA is written in TypeScript using React and MUI. Our application is distribtued over Google Cloud and AWS, with a combination of serverless and containerized workloads, orchestrated using Terraform. Persistency is distributed over PostgreSQL, Datastore and S3.

Tasks

We are looking for a Backend Developer to join us to build a great product in the logistics domain. Here is what you will be doing as a part of the Senvo dev team:

• Take our logistics intelligence platform to the next level, by adding business logic to simplify processes and discover inefficiencies, integrating new logistics APIs, and further developing our own API for the frontend application.
• Create transparency and reliability by integrating monitoring and telemetry tools.
• Drive business goals by designing and planning new features in collaboration with business stakeholders.
• Integrate AI capabilities to speed up and improve API integration and document processing

Requirements

Tech experience:

• Experience with Python and the backend ecosphere.
• Good understanding of different kinds of testing and its importance in backend applications.
• Experience with designing and building cloud-native applications. Ops experience, especially Terraform expertise is a big plus.
• Experience with various data persistency solutions, especially relational databases.

Attitude:

• Taking initiative: You see your job not as implementing features but creating value for customers. As such, you don't refrain from talking to relevant parties to get information, asking questions to understand underlying problems, making alternative proposals and improving the process and the requirements.
• Creativity: You are ready to go out of your own tech comfort zone, question your assumptions, try out new ideas, and compare alternatives objectively.
• Implement to learn: If an issue is too complex, you solve the easy part first to gather information, and go back to improve your initial design.

Why work at Senvo?

• You will be working with a team of smart, experienced and driven developers who are eager to support others and help them become better. Coaching is one of our strengths, and we make sure to spare time for more junior members of our team to help them in their journey to becoming seniors.
• We are hiring to keep and will do our best to make sure you can grow. We have a developer career ladder in place providing you with a concrete path to specializing in areas you find interesting and moving forward in your career.
• You will be working very close to business concerns, putting you on the front row of a fast paced start-up. You will be able to follow the software sales process from discovery to implementation to evaluation, giving you all the necessary tools to becoming a better professional.