TradeLink is a remote-first company that provides a collaborative logistics platform. We simplify B2B shipment collaboration for mid-sized businesses. Our open layer connects users, assets, and systems in shared shipment processes, offering simple workflow tools to all participants. We foster collaboration among supply chain actors through thought leadership, fair benefit distribution, and transparent reputations.

As a Principal Engineer (all genders), you will play a pivotal role in driving technical excellence, building scalable systems, and leading the development of new products and services. You will collaborate across engineering teams, provide technical expertise, and work closely with our product department. As a tech stack, we use Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript and PostgreSQL.

🚀 You will work directly with our Co-founder and CPTO, Tobias. As part of the recruiting process, you will interact with our Software Architect, David, and our Talent Acquisition Lead, Mirela. If you want to get to know your possible future colleagues, check out this short video with Tobias and David giving more insights into the role, in our virtual office. 🚀

🔖 YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Design, build, and maintain highly scalable and available systems that meet business and customer needs
Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the company's technical landscape, architecture, and infrastructure, and provide strategic guidance to inform technical decisions
Take on ownership over technical domain, manage its backlog prioritized by business impact and working on cross-team topics ahead of actual implementation start
Work collaboratively and communicate regularly with the product, design, engineering teams to understand requirements and deliver high-end technical solutions
Stay current with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices, and bring new ideas and innovations to the team
Monitor and improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of systems, and troubleshoot technical issues when necessary
Provide technical guidance and code reviews to ensure quality and consistency across the team

✏️ WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:

6+ years of experience in Software Engineering
Ability to guide strategic architecture-related discussions, brings practical solutions to the table in a form of proposed technologies, patterns, algorithms
Demonstrated expertise in designing and building highly scalable products
Strong proficiency in backend programming languages: experience with Ruby and Rails
Strong proficiency in Web Development: experience with React and TypeScript
Proficiency in working with relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL), including schema design, performance optimization and scaling
Experience in organizing continuous delivery process, working in continuous integration environment
Basic in-cloud DevOps skills, UNIX server management or similar
Present our technical team on various events we actively participate as a company
Some management or project leadership experience might play a good role!

🎉 WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU:

Being part of an exceptionally fast-growing product-led venture that's up to something big. We are building a new type of company, a SaaS-enabled B2B network
A job and a team full of passion. Working alongside enthusiastic people motivates us and gives us gratitude
Lots of autonomy, flexible working hours, and a remote-first setup including our virtual Office in Gather Town, which connects our team members across 20+ cities (additional optional office space in Berlin & Munich)
An extremely steep learning curve - we support your continuous development through individual learning opportunities, a diverse and international team of experts as well as experienced founders
Connecting and making memories with other TradeLinkers twice a year during our unforgettable, company-wide Offsites. Check the wrap-up videos from our last offsites on our Youtube page💙
A phenomenal company culture, both remote and in our optional offices

If you aren't completely confident that you meet our criteria, we recommend just taking the chance and applying anyway! Curiosity, passion for digital disruption, eagerness to learn, a collaborative spirit, and a growth mindset are most important to us.

‍TradeLink strongly believes in the power of diversity and is highly committed to providing a respectful, safe, and welcoming environment for everyone who works here or with us. In order to eliminate unconscious biases in the recruiting process, you can remove the photo from your application.

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