Software Engineer III, Applications – Remote, then Westlake Village, Ca 91361 (with part-time remote after a certain period of time) Direct Hire/ Full Time Employee

TITLE:  Software Engineer III, Applications

LOCATION:  Remote, then Westlake Village, Ca 91361 (with part time remote after a certain period of time)

SALARY:  To be discussed

REPORTS TO:  Sr. Director, Engineering

STAFF TO OVERSEE:  None, but if a management career is desired, there may be an opportunity

Job Description

Looking for an exceptional Software Development Engineer to work on the development of an innovative logistics platform. As a member of the team, you’ll help develop new features, contribute to our systems-driven operations processes, and most importantly, you’ll help create an outstanding user experience for our customers with excellent software design.

We’re looking for someone with excellent knowledge in Python and a solid grasp of relational databases. Algorithm and data structure fundamentals area must. A successful candidate is someone who enjoys challenging problems, creative solutions, and fast iteration.  If you have strong Python skills and are eager to quickly learn and grow your skills and experience, we want to hear from you!

Some of what you will do:

• Take ownership of the automated test suite and development of test cases and the framework itself to make it core part of our solution
• Work with the team of software engineers to rapidly develop high quality and well tested code
• Active participation in continuous improvement process
• Work with Product Operations to support customer on-boarding process
• Work with Technical Operations to proactively identify, reproduce and remediate customer issues
• Develop a deep understanding of customer needs and use cases for inVia’s products
• Participate in the on-call rotation

About you:

• Strong drive to iterate quickly and deliver high quality code on short timelines
• We iterate on weekly sprints, working hand in hand with operations and customers
• Our fail-fast philosophy guides us to test ideas quickly, abandon the bad ones and adopt the good ones as quickly as possible

Flexibility:

• Our stack is deep. It spans from microcontrollers to business logic, databases and UIs
• Be willing to pick up work outside of your area of expertise and learn new technologies fast
• Demonstrated ability to work in a cross-functional team environment:
• You will be working alongside some of the best engineers in the industry
• Be prepared to roll up your sleeves and work on tasks outside of your core competencies as needed

Great communication skills, both verbal and written

• We require prompt attention on Slack during working hours. Much of our team is spread out in warehouses across the country and we depend heavily on Slack for communication.
• Be friendly, helpful, respectful, and empathetic
• Excellent attention to detail
• This is a complicated system with a lot of moving parts. What you will be coding is business critical and a bug can stop the operations of million-unit per day warehouses

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