Senior Fullstack Engineer - Capacity

Senior Fullstack Engineer - Capacity

About the Role

Join Forto as a Senior Fullstack Engineer in the Capacity team, where you will play a pivotal role in enhancing procurement and allocation decisions to ensure Forto consistently exceeds industry averages for shipment margins. You will be responsible for developing a capacity planning and allocation system designed to maximize the gross profit of every shipment Forto handles. This role involves spending approximately 80% of your time working with backend technologies and the remaining time with frontend technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Revolutionize global trade by owning key components of our software backbone.
• Tackle challenges such as leading engineering-wide initiatives, collaborating with various teams and stakeholders, and writing concise Architectural Decision Records (ADRs).
• Own the full cycle of designing, building, and maintaining scalable and highly available software.
• Build scalable and extensible event-driven microservice architectures, utilizing advanced patterns like CQRS and event sourcing.
• Continuously enhance existing systems, including refactoring critical components of our platform.
• Explore and implement cutting-edge software design patterns to address evolving domain challenges.
• Mentor and coach team members, leveraging your talents to foster team growth.
• Lead cross-functional engineering initiatives, collaborating with Product and Design teams to shape project execution.

What You Bring

• Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals (e.g., data structures, algorithms, complexity analysis).
• A professional attitude toward software craftsmanship, with a solid understanding of testing methodologies and the importance of TDD.
• Experience in large-scale architectural patterns, event-driven microservices, well-designed APIs, and efficient algorithms.
• Hands-on experience building distributed backend applications, addressing challenges like data consistency, quality, latency, and availability.
• Proficiency in modern frontend development, maintaining and developing new components, and writing appropriate tests.
• Deep understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD), microservice architecture, and software architecture trade-offs.
• Experience debugging and tracing software issues in distributed environments, identifying bottlenecks, and ensuring service reliability and scalability.
• Insights into designing scalable, consistent, and fault-tolerant data streaming applications.
• Expertise in event-driven architecture, understanding synchronous vs. asynchronous communication and its platform impact.
• Experience with multiple database paradigms (relational and non-relational) and reasoning about their usage for different contexts.
• Familiarity with cloud providers (AWS, GCP preferred).
• Strong skills in backend technologies such as NodeJS, Javascript, Typescript, MongoDB, message queuing systems, and Kubernetes. Experience with ReactJS is a plus.
• A collaborative, team-player mindset with an emphasis on collective well-being.
• Critical product thinking, ownership mentality, accountability, and a willingness to challenge the status quo.
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written.

Work Environment

Forto offers a flexible work setup that fits around family, friends, and physical health. We have the freedom to work in a hybrid setup, promoting a healthy balance between work and personal life.

Company Culture

Forto is an internationally growing company with 17+ offices across Europe & Asia, 800+ employees, and 30+ nationalities represented. We provide a sense of belonging, where everyone has equal access to opportunities, career advancement, and recognition. We encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ages, races, religions, and abilities to apply for our opportunities.

Benefits

• Sustainability Team
• Emission Offsetting
• Green Energy
• Organic Food
• Paperless Office
• Inspiring Office Spaces
• Flexible Working Hours
• Team & Company Events
• Hybrid Work
• Peer Learning Program
• Mentorship Program
• Leadership Training
• L&D Budget
• Best Onboarding Program
• Visa & Relocation Support
• Remote Onboarding
• Buddy Program

Join us in our mission to disrupt logistics and simplify global trade with a digital and sustainable approach.