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project44 is a supply chain decision intelligence platform that transforms fragmented logistics data into real-time, AI-powered insights. The company is headquartered in Chicago with a second hub in Bengaluru, India.
You will join the engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer - Backend, working in a fast-paced Agile environment to design, build, and operate backend systems that power decision intelligence capabilities. Your work will directly impact how customers make informed supply chain decisions using AI and analytics.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design and build backend systems that power decision intelligence capabilities, leveraging AI and analytics
- Create services and workflows that reduce manual effort and enable customers to collaborate more effectively across the supply chain
- Own and modernize core platform services such as identity and access management (IAM) and search infrastructure, ensuring they remain secure, scalable, and extensible
- Transform large-scale logistics data into actionable insights supporting recommendations, decision support, and automated actions
- Partner with product, data, and design teams to translate customer problems into well-scoped, scalable technical solutions
- Build and operate systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), leveraging managed services
- Take shared ownership of development, testing, deployment, and operations for your team's systems
- Participate in on-call rotation, debugging and resolving production issues
- Improve observability, monitoring, and operational tooling to ensure system reliability
- Contribute to technical design discussions, code reviews, and documentation
- Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance
You should have strong communication skills, a strong analytical approach to problem-solving, and a sense of ownership and curiosity. The role requires comfort navigating ambiguity and making tradeoffs explicit.
The position requires a three-day-per-week in-office commitment at the Chicago headquarters. Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without current or future employer-sponsored visa support.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of professional experience building large-scale, cloud-based systems
- Strong programming and debugging skills with proficiency in Java
- Experience designing and building scalable Java-based microservices
- Experience designing and consuming APIs and web services (REST, OpenAPI/Swagger)
- Experience working with databases, including NoSQL and/or relational databases (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB, Postgres, or similar)
- Experience working in an Agile software development environment
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools for code generation, refactoring, and debugging (e.g., Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar)
- Experience integrating AI-assisted workflows into daily development while maintaining high standards for code quality, security, and correctness
Desirable experience (not required):
- Building event-driven systems and stream-processing pipelines (Kafka, Kinesis, or similar)
- Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Designing or working with agentic AI systems, including multi-step or autonomous LLM-powered workflows
- Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks or patterns (e.g., task planning, tool invocation, stateful agents, workflow orchestration)
- Building platform or framework-level solutions that enable AI-driven automation and decision-making
