Senior Software Engineer

project44 • Chicago, IL

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

project44 is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our engineering team. You will work in a fast-paced Agile environment designing, building, and implementing best-in-class integrations to accelerate how project44 connects to the world’s logistics networks. At project44, we believe in better. We challenge the status quo because we know a better supply chain isn’t just possible—it’s essential. Better for our customers. Better for their business. Better for the world. With our Decision Intelligence Platform, Movement , we’re redefining how global supply chains operate. By transforming fragmented logistics data into real-time, AI-powered insights, we empower companies to connect instantly, see clearly, act decisively, and automate intelligently. Our Supply Chain AI enhances visibility, drives smarter execution, and unlocks next-gen applications that keep businesses moving forward. AI at project44 We expect every project44 team member, regardless of role or function, to actively leverage AI in their day-to-day work. Whether you're building product, serving customers, managing people, or running operations, AI is a tool you're expected to use with intent, curiosity, and judgment. We don't expect everyone to be a data scientist. We do expect everyone to be an intelligent user of AI: able to identify where it adds value, direct it effectively, evaluate outputs critically, and govern it responsibly. We invest in our team's AI fluency because we believe it's a competitive advantage for every person at project44, not just our engineers If you’re driven to solve meaningful problems, leverage AI to scale rapidly, drive impact daily, and be part of a high-performance team – we should talk.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience building large-scale, cloud-based systems
• Strong programming and debugging skills with proficiency in Java
• Designing and building scalable Java-based microservices
• Designing and consuming APIs and web services (REST, OpenAPI/Swagger)
• Working with databases, including NoSQL and/or relational databases (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB, Postgres, or similar)
• Working in an Agile software development environment
• Using AI-assisted development tools for code generation, refactoring, and debugging (e.g., Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar)
• Integrating AI-assisted workflows into daily development while maintaining high standards for code quality, security, and correctness
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical decisions through design docs, discussions, and reviews, and collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical partners
• A strong analytical approach to problem-solving, with comfort navigating ambiguity and making tradeoffs explicit
• A sense of ownership, curiosity, and resilience - comfortable voicing ideas, incorporating feedback, and iterating toward better solutions
• Candidates must be authorised to work in the US without current or future employer-sponsored visa support.

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend systems that power decision intelligence capabilities, using AI and analytics to help customers make informed, timely, and confident supply chain decisions
• Build services and workflows that reduce manual effort and enable action, empowering customers to collaborate more effectively with carriers and partners 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 as new decision intelligence capabilities are introduced
• Transform large-scale logistics data into actionable insights and outcomes, supporting use cases such as recommendations, decision support, and automated actions
• Partner closely with product, data, and design to translate ambiguous customer problems into well-scoped, scalable technical solutions
• Build and operate systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), leveraging managed services to deliver reliable and scalable backend solutions
• Take shared ownership of development, testing, deployment, and operations for the systems owned by your team
• Participate in a team on-call rotation, debugging and resolving issues across your team’s services
• Improve observability, monitoring, and operational tooling to ensure system reliability and a strong on-call experience
• Contribute to technical design discussions, code reviews, and documentation, helping set a high bar for quality and maintainability within the team
• Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance

Benefits

• stock options for all EOR and project44-employed team members
• bonus or commission eligibility depending on role
• health, dental, and vision coverage
• retirement plans
• paid time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed