Flock Freight is a FreightTech company that uses patented technology to move freight more efficiently, reliably, and sustainably. The company’s guaranteed terminal-free truckload service, FlockDirect, finds the best options to pool freight among billions of possible combinations, optimizing routes while finding and filling trucks’ empty spaces. Shipments stay safe in a single truck, driven by a single driver, all the way to their destination allowing shippers to only pay for the space they need and enabling carriers to earn more from every linear foot of capacity — all while slashing carbon emissions by up to 40% compared to traditional shipping methods.
Flock Freight has been a Certified B Corp since 2020, meeting high social, environmental, transparency, and accountability standards to all of our stakeholders.
Flock Freight is looking for an experienced engineer who is passionate about building the infrastructure that enables the architecture, development, deployment, and observation of highly performant frontend and backend applications. The platform infrastructure team empowers the rest of the Technology organization to ship high-quality code as fast as possible to make the freight world a better place.
We’re looking for an exceptional, collaborative software engineer to join the team responsible for building out a set of core infrastructure, services, and best practices for our product engineers. Our team is made up of a small group of engineers who are passionate about creating innovative solutions built with modern technology. As a member of this team, your talent and expertise will influence the best practices, design patterns, and technologies that we use to deliver the best experience for our customers.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain shared services and frameworks for standing up workloads, managing transactions, caching, queueing, asynchronous processing, data pipelines, observability, authentication and authorization.
- Drive standardization of backend monitoring by building tools to measure, monitor and optimize our backend performance and ensure high availability.
- Define and evangelize best practices for backend development for topics such as database access, asynchronous messaging, decomposition, dependency injection, integration and end-to-end testing, and microservices
- Build and maintain software delivery systems from local tooling for building and managing software, through continuous integration, all the way to production deployments and post-deployment verification.
- Take part in the interviewing and consideration of potential new team members.
- Provide guidance and technical mentorship to new Flockers.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer with excellent knowledge of Java (additional experience with Golang, Python, and JavaScript are pluses).
- Experience using popular Java backend development frameworks like Play, Spring and persistence layer frameworks such as jOOQ or Hibernate.
- 3+ years of experience building distributed systems leveraging asynchronous messaging (Pub/Sub), caching, RPC, and the common services and technologies used to build cohesive solutions.
- 3+ years of experience with cloud-native back end architecture using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience designing mission critical, scalable, and fault tolerant web applications.
- Experience with modern web stacks and architecture (REST, load balancing, HTTP(S), authentication).
- Experience in state-of-the-art software and system design patterns.
- Experience with Java build tools such as Gradle, Maven, sbt, or Bazel
- Experience with end-to-end debugging, monitoring and alerting, and system performance tuning.
- Exceptional problem solving, analysis, decomposition, and communication skills applied within an agile development environment.
Life & Benefits of the Flock:
- Hybrid Work Model: As an organization we value in-office collaboration, working cross-functionally, and winning together. Through scheduled in-office and work from home days, we are able to work more efficiently and collaboratively.
- 401(k) Employer Match: We know Flock may just be a stepping stone in your epic journey, but we want to be sure you’re setting your future self up for success! For that reason, we provide a 401(k) plan that offers a 4% employer match.
- Medical, Dental & Vision: Generous coverage for employees and dependents. Both HMO and PPO options provided.
Our promise to you:
Flock Freight is committed to creating an environment that’s fair and inclusive. We fill our open positions based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We value the skills of people from all backgrounds and are proud to hire, promote, and retain talent from a diverse candidate pool. Diverse perspectives are central to innovation at Flock Freight and make our team better. We're interested in your inherent abilities, not just the skills you bring from your last role - if you think you have what it takes to succeed in the role but don't check every box, please still get in touch. We'd love to start a conversation with you.
Flock Freight has zero tolerance for behavior that negatively impacts marginalized groups, including women, people of color, veterans, immigrants, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. We invite people of all identities to join the Flock!
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What We Do
Flock Freight is a sustainability-focused technology company reinventing North America’s $2 trillion freight market from offices in Encinitas, California and Chicago, Illinois.
We’re the first firm in the industry to build algorithms that pool shipments at scale, deliver freight with carbon neutral shared truckload service, and earn a B Corporation certification.
From an industrywide perspective, our goal is to eliminate freight waste and inefficiency. From a companywide perspective, our goal is to create a positive impact on our people and planet.
Our shared truckload solution, FlockDirect, drives these goals forward by setting a new standard of service for shippers, increasing revenue for carriers, and reducing the environmental impact of freight shipping. Our internal Impact teams drive these goals forward by holding us accountable and measuring our progress in areas like:
— Philanthropy
— Community engagement
— Employee engagement
— Diversity and inclusion
Backing from investors like SoftBank, Volvo Group Venture Capital, Susquehanna, Eden Capital, SignalFire, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and GLP Capital Partners tells us these goals are worthwhile.
It’s not just our investors who see the Flock Freight vision; in 2022, we earned a spot on the TIME100 Most Influential Companies list. In 2021, CNBC named us to their Disruptor 50 list and Fast Company named shared truckload to their World Changing Ideas list. Our team is working to change the world for the better, and these awards tell us we’re on the right track.
