Software Engineer (Full stack)

Your Role at Logixboard: 

Logixboard is looking for a full stack software engineer to join its fast-growing team on a mission to become the leading digital SaaS platform in the freight forwarding space. 

Our platform aims to provide near real time cargo tracking information to Freight Forwarders and their customers across any mode of transportation (Air, Ocean, Rail, etc.), by aggregating data from sources such as Cargowise One and presenting it in a modern look and feel.

In this role you will continue building our React-based application, working closely with our product and design teams. From world maps showing cargo position, to command center dashboards and highly interactive charts, you will get your hands on a lot of UI. You will also reach into the backend of a system built on GraphQL/Postgres and a lot of events processed with AWS Lambdas and Kinesis.

The engineering team at Logixboard is small and nimble. You will be in very good company in a high paced engineering environment. You will be autonomous and will augment the existing team with your own leadership as you effectively will be the foundation for Logixboard’s growth.

About Logixboard 

Logixboard is a cloud platform transforming how the $2 trillion freight forwarding industry operates. Firms currently use paper, spreadsheets, and email to track their customers' shipments and provide shippers visibility. They are burdened by low-tech, hard-to-use solutions that are inefficient and costly.

Our platform integrates with existing back-office applications and serves as a digital customer engagement layer, empowering freight forwarders to do their work more efficiently. Our customers love our platform, and we're facing tremendous growth this year. Logixboard is a recent graduate of Techstars Seattle and is looking to expand our team.

Logixboard is funded by leading early-stage investors like Social Leverage, F-Prime & Founders Co-op, and is based in Seattle, WA.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing, testing and maintaining React-based components on one hand, and building up our backend system for increasing scalability.
• Being an active member of the team on decisions about data models, API and general system architecture, with the possibility of directly leading the implementation.
• Interacting with our product and design teams and providing them with feedback through our the design process
• Owning features through and through, from requirements reviews with our product team, implementation, infrastructure evolution all the way to production.
• Driving multiple cross functional initiatives where you will have the opportunity to interact directly with customers.
• Providing guidance and mentorship to other team members.

Your technical skills will include: 

• Experience building large, modular React-based applications with all usual technologies associated with this ecosystem around testing, packaging and deployment.
• Experience working with GraphQL is a plus
• Production experience with AWS services such as Lambda, Kinesis, S3, RDS and general compute infrastructure.

We are looking for somebody: 

• Who has an acute attention to details, and understanding of how important quality and finish are in a UI.
• With an empathic, collaborative and consultative work style.
• Who understands that simple solutions are the best solutions.
• Who is confident and comfortable during interactions with customers.
• Who has tinkered with a bunch of programming languages and services and with enough insight across the programming landscape to step into unfamiliar code and make sense of what is going on.
• Who has 3+ years of real-world experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript best practices
• Who lives within a few time zones from Seattle, WA.

Benefits: 

• Logixboard offers 100% of health insurance costs for all US employees.
• Full-time employees have unlimited vacation.
• High Energy - High opportunity for a growth environment 
• We are a fast-growing startup where your position will have a direct impact on the business 

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status