Responsibilities
- Design and implement backend services for capturing, storing, and validating procurement contract rates and allotment volumes.
- Lead the evolution of event-driven microservices supporting real-time contract utilization and space availability updates.
- Refactor and optimize shipment-to-contract matching systems for low latency and maintainability.
- Automate shipment nomination based on cost, volume commitments, and carrier performance.
- Develop API-driven tools for managing carrier agreements and monitoring capacity versus demand.
- Collaborate on integrating ML models for capacity forecasting.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives with Engineering, Product, and Global Procurement.
- Coach team members on backend engineering, Domain-Driven Design, and logistics-domain practices.
Requirements
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale data processing.
- Professional experience building high-quality, maintainable, and testable software.
- Expertise designing large-scale event-driven microservices, robust APIs, and distributed systems with strong data consistency.
- Hands-on experience developing distributed backend applications focused on quality, low latency, and high availability.
- Proficiency with Domain-Driven Design and backend technologies including Node.js, TypeScript, and MongoDB.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Experience with cloud providers, preferably AWS or GCP.
- Collaborative communication skills, product thinking, ownership, and fluency in written and spoken English.
- Understanding of Test-Driven Development is a plus.
Benefits
- A people-first culture that values care, diverse perspectives, efficient systems, and direct communication.
- Opportunity to work on technology that reinvents global logistics and digital supply chains.
- Opportunity to mentor teammates and collaborate with global Engineering, Product, and Procurement teams.
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About Forto
Forto was founded with the vision to deliver a highly transparent, frictionless and sustainable digital supply chain. Forto platform technologies address the entire process stream, from offer, booking, document administration, tracking and tracing to pro-active exemption processing and analysis, supporting our customers with greater visibility, insight and control. Leading manufacturers and e-commerce brands are among the 2.500 customers using our tech-enabled offerings as part of their supply chain delivery. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, we currently count more than 500 employees with 15 locations across Europe and Asia including offices in Berlin, Milan, Warsaw, Ho Chi Minh City, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Forto's privacy policy: https://forto.com/en/privacy-policy/ Our imprint: https://forto.com/en/imprint/