Senior Back-End Software Engineer

Covantis; Polska; Remote; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Remote work in hire country

Learning & development budget

International team

Job summary

Covantis is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Back-End) to join a multi-product portfolio and tackle hard engineering problems. You’ll work on Covantis Voyages among other products, shaping what the solution should be and how to implement it.

You will collaborate with product management and design, contribute to technical design, and own code delivery from development through production with CI/CD and DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• Senior-level, 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of backend for web apps using a common framework.
• Strong experience with a high-level strongly typed language.
• Familiar with architecture, performance and security best practices.
• Advocate for testing with modern frameworks and best practices.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps to ship code fast.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools.
• Advanced skills in using AI coding agents.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with PM and Designer to understand business cases and shape solutions.
• Work with other developers to automate and digitalise supply chain processes.
• Participate in technical design discussions and write ADRs.
• Build backend and frontend for web apps and contribute to infra and policies.
• Deliver code to production using CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Contribute across all SDLC phases: new features, tests, bugs, reviews, deployments.
• Assist other teams with challenging cases or tight deadlines.

Skills

Senior level

Backend development

TypeScript

CI/CD

Testing frameworks

Monitoring

AI coding

English fluency

Tools

Node.js

Nest.js

React

Jest/Vitest

MUI

Tailwind

Refine

Storybook

Chromatic

Playwright

Postgres

Redis

Kafka

S3

K8s/EKS

Terraform

GitLab

Elastic

Job description

Covantis, a Swiss start-up founded in 2020 by global Agri trading leaders ADM, Bunge, Cargill, COFCO, LDC, Marubeni, and Viterra, is revolutionizing the agricultural trade industry through digital innovation. As a platform designed by the industry for the industry, Covantis connects market participants globally, streamlining trade execution processes to boost efficiency and mitigate risks. Offering a portfolio of cutting-edge products powered by AI, the platform optimizes document workflows, facilitates electronic documentation, and enhances contract mapping. With over 50 employees across 11 countries, Covantis fosters a growth-oriented, change-driven culture, driving the agricultural supply chain into a new era of digitalization embraced by the industry’s leading players.

Who we are looking for

Covantis is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Back-End) who loves (and is good at) solving hard yet exciting engineering problems and bringing new products and features to life. If you love being a part of the solution, actively contributing to discoveries, gaining deep understanding of customer needs, analysing intricate details of their business processes and empathising their pains, and ready to shape and implement solutions to those problems, this is a role for you.

What you will do

As a Senior Software Engineer at Covantis, you will work across multiple products in our portfolio (we currently have 5) to develop and improve features that directly address real-life problems in the supply chain operations. Your first assignment will likely be Covantis Voyages – our biggest and the most mature product with complex microservice architecture, well-established incident management and a solid user base of loyal customers from agriculture commodities and shipping and trade industry.

• Work directly with a Product Manager and a Designer to understanding business cases and user needs and shape/design a solution together, consulting the rest of the team and Engineering Manager when necessary. We expect you to not only decide on how to implement things from the technical perspective, but brainstorm with the PM or the Designer helping define what the solution to the problem would even be.
• Collaborate with other developers to deliver complex solutions for automating or digitalising all sorts of processes in supply chain operations.
• Participate in technical design discussions. Produce technical documentation as needed in support of complex technical concepts, write ADRs for topics requiring complex decision making and cross-team alignment.
• Build web-application back-end and front-end. We also support and encourage contributions beyond that – to infra, org-level policies and practices etc.
• Deliver code to production using CI/CD and best DevOps practices.
• Be involved in all phases of software development life cycle: implementing new features or changes to existing features, writing tests, fixing bugs/defects, doing code reviews, deploying to production, responding to incidents etc.
• Occasionally help other teams working on other products if they happen to have a particularly challenging case or a tight deadline.

Node.js, Nest.js, React, Jest/Vitest, MUI on Covantis Voyages, Tailwind on other products, Refine, Storybook, Chromatic, Playwright, Postgres/RDS, Redis/ElastiCache, Kafka/MSK, S3, K8s/EKS and other managed services in AWS, Terraform, GitLab, Elastic

Experience and Required Hard Skills

Languages

Fluent English is a must

Required:

• Senior-level, 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of experience in developing back-end for web apps using a common web framework.
• Strong experience any high-level strongly typed programming language.
• Familiar with best practices in architecture, performance, security etc.
• Strong advocate for testing, experience with modern testing frameworks and best practices.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps best practices to build, test and ship your code fast.
• Experience with monitoring / observability tools.
• Advanced skills in use of AI coding agents.

Nice to have:

• Strong experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Experience in developing front-end for web apps using React.
• Experience with IaaC.

Soft skills we value

• Strong Communication: You can explain complex technical issues clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaboration: You thrive in a team environment, valuing input from others and contributing to shared goals and work closely as a remote team.
• Adaptability: You’re comfortable with change and can pivot quickly when priorities shift.
• Problem-Solving: You approach challenges with a solution-oriented mindset, a sense of curiosity and a strong determination to investigate, research, and thoroughly understand the problem initially, followed by validating the solution.
• Empathy: You understand the needs and concerns of teammates and customers, fostering a supportive work environment.

What you will love about us

• We’re truly agile. No fancy methodology cargo cult. We use elements of common agile practices to the extent that they are useful to us, adapting our way of working based on what the team feels is right for the moment.
• Work full-time with flexible hours and remotely in the country you are hired in.
• An entrepreneurial environment with immediate responsibility and a chance to make a difference from the day 1. No-one’s going to give you detailed requirements and prescriptive designs for a feature. You are a part of the solution. You will be working directly with a Product Manager and a Designer (maybe even interacting with customers at times) to understand the business case, customer needs and shape a solution together. If you prefer working with fully detailed requirements in Jira, engineering roles at Covantis might not be the best fit for you.
• Unlimited individual growth opportunities and the ability to create a personalized career path. Many of our team members have successfully transitioned from QA to Software Engineering, from Back-end to Full Stack, and from Engineering to Management. We actively support professional development by matching individuals with the right opportunities and initiatives to expand their knowledge and maximize their impact. Plus, we provide a generous learning and development (L&D) budget to support continuous learning and career advancement.
• An inspiring environment working together with the brightest software engineers in truly international team across Europe. Our hiring philosophy is “We seek out people who would be among the best you’ve ever worked with”. That requirement of course applies to you too, but also guarantees that the team you join is going to be top tier.
• Our company comprises amazing people, a supportive atmosphere and a culture built on mutual support, respect and care for people, that can only happen in a fun and rewarding workplace built by the kind of people Covantis employs.
• Innovative project transforming the supply chain operations for the entire industry, with big name clients and exposure to cutting edge emerging technologies.

Give us your best and we will give you ours!