Backend Software Engineer - Distribution
Rune Technologies2 months ago
Arlington, VA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and development of backend services supporting distribution capabilities across TyrOS.
- Build systems for transportation planning, routing, dispatch, shipment execution, asset and capacity allocation, scheduling, tracking, and dynamic replanning.
- Translate logistics workflows into durable domain models, APIs, services, messaging patterns, and event-driven systems.
- Reconcile inventory, demand, transportation capacity, location, time, priority, and other constraints across distributed networks.
- Develop performant production services in Go and integrate them with TyrOS and the broader Rune platform.
- Integrate optimization and planning recommendations into reliable, understandable, and executable operational workflows.
- Design for partial, delayed, conflicting, or changing information and constrained bandwidth, connectivity, compute, latency, and availability.
- Partner with military users, domain experts, product engineers, optimization engineers, and platform teams.
- Provide technical leadership through system design, code review, mentorship, and complex cross-functional initiatives.
- Establish practices for testing, observability, performance, failure recovery, and operational resilience.
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend, platform, or distributed-systems engineering experience with substantial ownership of production software.
- Production-system experience in logistics, transportation, fulfillment, routing, dispatch, shipment management, warehousing, marketplace operations, supply chain, travel, operations planning, or a similarly complex operational domain.
- Experience building software for real-world planning or operational decision-making rather than exclusively transactional or CRUD-oriented applications.
- Strong programming skills in one or more performant languages such as Go, C++, Java, or Rust.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, service architecture, asynchronous processing, messaging, state management, failure handling, consistency, and reliability.
- Experience designing complex domain models and maintainable architecture for evolving operational requirements.
- Experience designing and consuming APIs and integrating services through messaging layers, event-driven architectures, and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience working with large or complex structured datasets and continuously reconciling changing state.
- Strong engineering fundamentals including profiling, testing, observability, code review, performance tuning, version control, and production debugging.
- Ability to independently lead complex technical projects from ambiguous problem definition through production operation.
- Ability to collaborate with product managers, domain experts, operations researchers, and engineers across a software platform.
- Preferred experience with transportation management, fleet management, freight, supply chain planning, warehouse management, order fulfillment, travel, logistics marketplaces, or network planning.
- Preferred experience with routing, scheduling, allocation, matching, capacity planning, constrained decision-making, optimization libraries, geospatial or logistics data, continuous replanning, event-driven systems, edge environments, or military logistics and defense software.
- Preferred familiarity with operations research, applied mathematics, optimization, or data science teams.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with employee premiums fully covered and low-cost premiums for spouses and dependents.
- Basic life insurance and disability coverage fully funded for employees, with optional additional life insurance.
- Paid time off that is not accrual-based, allowing employees to take needed time off.
- Generous company holiday calendar with a December holiday shutdown.
- Supportive leave program covering military service, medical events, and parental leave.
- 401(k) retirement plan for eligible full-time employees.
- Company-funded commuter benefits.
- Free access to the on-site gym.
- Full-time employees may receive equity grants as part of the total compensation package.
About Rune Technologies
Rune Technologies builds mission-critical software for military logistics and sustainment. Its flagship product, TyrOS, is an AI-enabled logistics command-and-control platform that gives commanders a single, real-time operating picture across inventory, distribution, medical, and operational planning, even in degraded environments. The privately held company delivers contracted software to military and government customers and supports deployment and training at government facilities and bases.