BLUECARGO

Blue Cargo is a pioneering technology company in the logistics and supply chain industry. We are at the forefront with our innovative freight audit solutions and lead the industry in tracking container data. Our platform aggregates data from multiple sources, providing a single, streamlined interface for superior logistics management. This comprehensive approach ensures accuracy, transparency, and efficiency in freight cost management and cargo tracking. Our commitment to innovation and sustainability drives us to continually transform the logistics landscape, making it more reliable and accessible for businesses globally.

Founded by two female entrepreneurs who graduated from the Y Combinator 2018 batch, BlueCargo has successfully raised a Series A in 2022. We are at the beginning of an exciting growth phase, having already developed product-market fit, a working platform, and hundreds of daily active users.

If working to bring technology to the logistics industry sounds exciting, then we’d like to connect with you! We are looking for an experienced Back-end Engineer engineer with a startup mindset.

Our Current Tech

• Technical stack: Python / Django (Backend), Javascript (Frontend), AWS services (Lambda, RDS, S3), PostgreSQL (Database), CircleCI and other continuous integration tools
• Tech team: 12 engineers (+ 5 people in the product team)
• Location: Los Angeles or remote
  
  

Mission/Responsibilities

OPPORTUNITY OVERVIEW

You will join a team responsible for building out data pipelines and ensuring the accuracy of our data. We are a small but mighty team, currently consisting of 3 engineers and 1 data scientist. We collaborate closely to drive the technology and infrastructure that powers BlueCargo’s product delivery, always aiming for precision and efficiency in our work.

Responsibilities

As an engineer, you will be building the platform technology and infrastructure that drives BlueCargo’s product delivery. Your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborating with product managers, designers, data scientists, and other software engineers
• Translating product requirements and technical designs into well-engineered, low-defect, robust code
• Researching new technologies and methodologies to improve our architecture, software components, user experience, and development process
• Building out our data platform by developing data pipelines, web scrapers, API integrations, and modeling the world of container logistics.
  
  

Qualifications

In addition to the following technical skills, we are looking for PROBLEM SOLVERS with an entrepreneurial mindset.

• Several years of Python engineering experience, developing and deploying software in a short cycle using Agile methodologies
• Experienced in data sourcing technologies (external APIs, web-scraping, EDI files, etc.) and building data management platforms
• Proven leadership qualities and the ability to take complete ownership of the features you work on
• Strong knowledge of data modeling, building pipelines, and ETL processes
• Interest and/or experience in logistics and/or supply chain
• Start-up experience
• Experience working on cloud infrastructure, especially AWS
  
  

Classification

• Perks: Medical benefits + unlimited PTO
• Fun perks: flexible and international environment
• Support/Community: Enjoy being a member of a Y Combinator company!