Lead (C#/Azure) Software Engineer - Parcel Team

Reports To: Software Engineering Manager

Location: Remote or Chicago, IL

Redwood Logistics is your strategically integrated logistics provider that understands our customers’ unique needs. Throughout our 20-year history, we’ve grown and evolved our range of offerings to create a family of companies that can solve logistics and transportation challenges.

From our diversity of services, data-driven network solutions, and strategically integrated model, we have positioned ourselves as the dominant player in the mid-market space. We are a privately held company, managing significant transportation spend – we are big, but flexible with an entrepreneurial spirit.

For more than 20 years, Redwood Logistics has been helping move businesses forward by connecting our clients to winning strategies. As a next-generation leader in third-party logistics, we live at the intersection of logistics and technology. We focus brilliant minds, technology services, and performance excellence to modernize supply chains.

Redwood is a leading logistics platform company and next-generation 3PL, that has been providing solutions for moving and managing freight for more than 20 years. In the last 12 months, we’ve experienced rapid growth and received the following recognition:

• 2022 FreightTech Top 25
• Top Workplace in Chicago by the Chicago Tribune (2021, 2020, 2019)
• 2021 Women in Supply Chain Award
• Top 100 Software & Technology Provider
• Top Green Provider

We are looking for new team members who get excited about designing and delivering new and better products to join the RedwoodConnect group within Redwood. The RedwoodConnect team works to solve our industry’s most pressing problem of connectivity and integration. The ultimate vision is interwoven connectivity between shippers’ systems, brokers’ systems, and carriers’ systems that will construct a new, three-dimensional digital world that overrides the current status quo. It will drive greater efficiency among all parties, help lower transportation costs, and provide shippers and brokers the transportation capacity they need to keep up in the economy of tomorrow. Come join us if you like to tackle big problems and make a meaningful difference. You will enjoy the autonomy and creativity of a startup Enterprise SaaS company with the solid financial backing of a growth stage Private Equity backed company.

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

Position Description:

As a Lead Software Engineer you will be responsible for leading the engineering of large-scale solutions to enable Redwood’s business while supporting the strategic architectural vision of quality, scalability, performance and function.

Responsibilities:

Technical Planning

• Works with team leads to ensure a team’s direction is in line with enterprise vision
• Follows through and communicates design decisions to everyone on the team
• Ability to articulate technical information to a non-technical audience

Software Development

• Active member of a product team that solves complex challenges and builds working software
• Develops with an awareness for team members needs
• Identify, prioritize, and execute plans to reduce technical debt
• Produces high quality code, fast
• Commands a broad awareness of related projects
• Mentors team members
• Provides development expertise to team members through education and review
• Facilitates pair programming to communicate design knowledge throughout the team

Release Planning

• Supports and is accountable for timely releases and adherence to release activities
• 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

Education

• Collaborates outside of the product team to encourage a development community
• Establishes and carries out formal and informal educational sessions
• Liaises between the team and management to assure needed skills are represented on the team
• Encourages self-study by promoting best practices and bringing in external perspective

Team Member

• Works hand-in-hand with Product Owner to break down user stories into small functional slices
• Encourages integration and promotes obtaining shared goals with team members
• Always open to new ideas and encourages innovative practices amongst peers
• Maintains an attitude of commitment through outward display of willingness.
• Practices positive interactions - leans on encouragement in place of judgment.
• Impresses responsibility on others by displaying ownership in tasks.
• Acts in the interest of the overall team.
• Actively works on broadening or adding a skill
• Balances best practice decisions with delivering high business value (right vs right now)
• Contributes to the success of a self-organizing team

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent years of experience
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience applying best practice software engineering designs
• 8+ years of experience using C#, Node or comparable languages
• 3+ years of experience with js frontend technologies such as Angular or React
• 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