Backend Engineer for Warehouse Automation

Sonwil Distribution Center, Inc.

Buffalo (NY)

On-site

USD 85,000 - 100,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Sonwil Distribution Center, Inc. is seeking a Backend Software Developer in West Seneca, NY to maintain, improve, and expand the server-side applications powering the FourSquare warehouse automation platform.

This role focuses on reliable, unattended production services and scalable data processing that supports inventory movement and warehouse operations. You will work in a Microsoft development environment with DevOps practices, collaborating with software and operations teams to translate

Qualifications

Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
Equivalent professional software development experience will be considered.
Experience with backend/server-side development using Microsoft technologies.
Strong proficiency with C#, VB.NET, and the .NET environment.
Experience with Microsoft SQL Server and data-access tech.
Familiarity with DevOps practices, including source control and automated builds.
Experience designing reliable, high-availability services.
Experience with APIs, services, or system-to-system integrations.

Responsibilities

Maintain, enhance, and expand backend applications supporting the FourSquare platform and related logistics solutions.
Develop reliable server-side software designed to operate continuously and unattended in production environments.
Design, develop, test, troubleshoot, and maintain application services, business logic, system processes, and integrations.
Diagnose and resolve software defects, performance issues, processing failures, and other production application issues.
Develop software with an emphasis on reliability, maintainability, recoverability, logging, monitoring, and effective error handling.
Work with Microsoft SQL Server to design and maintain database interactions, queries, stored procedures, and other data-access functionality.
Participate in the company's DevOps development processes, including source control, code review, build, testing, deployment, and release management.
Support and improve pathing and routing logic used by the FourSquare platform; experience with A* or similar algorithms is beneficial.
Develop and maintain interfaces between FourSquare applications and other systems.
Collaborate with web development team to support services and data for visualization and user-facing apps.
Translate warehouse processes into effective application behavior with input from operations personnel.
Develop automated tests and technical documentation to support reliability and future development.
Participate in architecture and design decisions as the platform evolves.
Support production implementations and travel to project sites as needed.
Identify opportunities to improve performance, scalability, and development practices.