Principal Software Engineer

As a software engineer at Alvys, you will develop and operate a SaaS platform for freight transportation logistics. Your work will reduce repetitive tasks, increase productivity, and create overall efficiencies in the movement of physical goods. This is a full-time, long-term role at an ambitious, early stage company. As such, it will require you to wear multiple hats, think creatively, adapt and navigate unfamiliar terrain.Principal Software Engineer Preferred Qualifications:Experience with cloud-based distributed systems, including system design, implementation and production operation.Experience with parallel & concurrent programming, including an understanding of the tradeoffs between state consistency models, throughput & latency, asynchrony & synchrony.An understanding of memory models and GC with ability to troubleshoot performance issues.An understanding of domain modeling with the artifacts used for both implementation and documentation.Ability to analyze and react to operational metrics (throughput, latency, error rate, queue depth, memory utilization, etc).Willingness to learn a complex domain, model apply sophisticated engineering techniques, and operate as part of a team.Experience with our tech stack is appreciated, but not required.Kind, smart, gets things done.Principal Software Engineer Responsibilities:Development : develop features and infrastructure components for the platform alongside the rest of the engineering team to distill patterns and reusable building blocks.Operations : monitor the platform in production, respond to alerts, debug and manage incidents, develop best practices.Communication : communicate development status, requirements, technical specifications, proposals, best practices, both in written and verbal form.Engineering Excellence : facilitate engineering excellence across the team, including code quality, testing, system architecture, performance & reliability, capacity planning.Mentorship : in addition to their own responsibilities, principal engineers are expected to help the rest of the team in the form of code reviews, documentation, best practices, etc.Azure : we are cloud native, no on-premise or infrastructure..NET/C# : back-end systems are written in C#.CosmosDB : our source-of-truth datastore and event log.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.Dart/Flutter : Native UI/UX.Azure Monitor & Application Insights : system and infrastructure monitoring and alerting.Integrations : hundreds of integrations with various types of services, including geo-location, ELD, mapping, routing, as well as partner companies such as shippers, brokers, etc.Transportation is a complex domain with many moving parts, lacking automation and standardization. The US freight industry at a glance:$800B in annual revenue$15T worth of goods moved, $12T by truckFragmentation: ~400,000 carriers, 96% with fewer than 6 trucks, 99% with fewer than 100These carriers have been overlooked by technology companies and lack the tools they need to do their jobs.About AlvysAlvys is on a mission to make transportation logistics companies more efficient. We believe this requires two things: 1) hands-on experience in the industry – so we know what to build, and 2) world-class technical vision – so that we know how to build it. Originally built to support a freight brokerage, Alvys has evolved into a mission-critical multi-tenant SaaS platform used by transportation companies every day to run their businesses.

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