Senior Software Engineer – Real-Time Logistics Platform

Project44; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

project44 is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Visibility Platform team in Amsterdam. You will help shape the shared engineering foundation powering Ground, Ocean, Air, and Orders — turning billions of carrier signals into real-time tracking, milestones, and notifications for the world’s largest shippers and logistics providers.

You will build event-driven, scalable micro-services in a multi-cloud environment (AWS/GCP with Azure valued).

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional experience building large scale and real time or near real time cloud systems.
• Strong programming and debugging skills, with proficiency in Java Backend.
• Experience designing and operating event-driven and stream-processing systems on Kafka or Kinesis.
• Creating and working with scalable Java-based micro-services.
• Working with databases (preferably Postgres or other SQL based DB).
• Building systems in a multi-cloud environment (AWS & GCP; Azure experience valued).
• Working in an agile software development environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the core platforms behind every visibility product — event ingestion, milestone computation, webhook and notification delivery, scheduled work, and shared APIs used across all modal teams.
• Design event-driven systems that process high-throughput carrier data reliably and with low latency.
• Own reliability, performance, and scalability of the platforms your team operates.
• Building systems in a multi-cloud environment.
• Partner with modal engineering teams across Ground, Ocean, Air, and Orders to expose platform capabilities they can build on.
• Share ownership of all facets of software delivery, including development, operations, and test.
• Assume on-call responsibilities for systems (together with the team).
• Invest in tools, monitoring, and automation to improve on-call experience for everyone on your team.

Skills

Real-time cloud systems

Strong programming & debugging

Tools

Java Backend

Kafka/Kinesis

Postgres

AWS/GCP

Job description

project44 is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Visibility Platform team in Amsterdam. You will help shape the shared engineering foundation powering Ground, Ocean, Air, and Orders — turning billions of carrier signals into real-time tracking, milestones, and notifications for the world’s largest shippers and logistics providers.

You will build event-driven, scalable micro-services in a multi-cloud environment (AWS/GCP with Azure valued).