Lead Software Engineer, Sustainability

Reports To: Director of Software Engineering

Location: Chicago, IL / Remote

For more than 20 years, Redwood Logistics has been helping move businesses forward by connecting our clients to winning strategies. Redwood is a next-generation leader in third-party logistics. We focus brilliant minds, technology services, and performance excellence to modernize your supply chain. Your business was never designed to be ordinary. Your logistics partner shouldn’t be either.

See for yourself why The Chicago Tribune has named Redwood Logistics a Top Workplace for several years running!

Position Description:

As a Full Stack Developer /Lead Developer-Sustainability, you will be responsible for leading one or more engineering teams in development of Redwood's proprietary application suite. This includes full stack development and working with product teams and business units to evolve our revolutionary integration platform as a service built for logistics teams. You will be responsible for ensuring the team’s direction is in line with the enterprise vision.

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with product manager and architects to develop solutions to complex problems
• Follows through and communicates design decisions to everyone on the team
• Carries out root cause analysis on defects to ensure fixes are happening in a timely and effective manner
• Identifies tactical risks and raises/resolves issues effectively
• Works closely with DevOps team in order to ensure that infrastructure, logging, monitoring, and operational support are addressed correctly
• Mentors team members
• Provides development expertise to team members through education and review
• Produces high quality code, fast
• Act as subject matter experts for company owned applications
• Participate in code reviewing/standardization processes
• Be vocal! Suggest ways the team can improve, as agile is a journey, not a destination!

Qualifications:

• A sharp mind, a great attitude, and willingness to have fun
• Excellent understanding of cloud-native, distributed system design
• Experience with data warehousing solutions – Postgres and/or Snowflake preferred
• Node.js/AWS/React
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent years of experience
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience applying best practice software engineering designs
• 3+ years of experience with js frontend technologies such as Angular or React
• 3+ years of experience with cloud technologies, AWS preferred.
• 3+ years of experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD)
• 3+ years of experience working on agile teams

Rewards:

• Culture of unlimited growth with new positions and departments created regularly to support our growing customer base
• Paid maternity and paternity leave policies
• Medical, dental, vision and 401k plans (with match)
• Flexible-spending, mass transit and dependent care plans
• Health savings account, with company contribution
• Short-term, long-term and life insurance policies subsidized by company
• Cell phone discounts; reduced fees for health and fitness clubs
• Additional benefits including pet insurance, accident care and more
• Competitive referral bonus program
• Competitive PTO plans, with extra floating holiday and time off to volunteer
• Fundraising and volunteer opportunities to give back to our local and national communities