Senior Software Engineer - AI-Driven Supply Chain

project44; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

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Job summary

project44 is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our engineering team in Chicago, with on-site presence three days per week and hybrid collaboration. You’ll design, build, and implement best-in-class integrations to connect logistics networks with AI-powered insights.

Base salary ranges from $130,000 to $190,000 with stock options and bonus eligibility, reflecting experience and location. You’ll work in a fast-paced Agile environment on GCP, owning IAM, search, and backend services while

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience building large-scale, cloud-based systems.
• Strong programming and debugging skills with proficiency in Java.
• Experience in designing scalable Java-based microservices.
• Experience with REST APIs and OpenAPI/Swagger.
• Familiar with Agile software development.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend systems powering decision intelligence capabilities, using AI and analytics to help customers make informed, timely, and confident supply chain decisions.
• Build services and workflows that reduce manual effort and enable action, empowering customers to collaborate more effectively with carriers and partners across the supply chain.
• Own and modernize core platform services, such as identity and access management (IAM) and search infrastructure, ensuring they remain secure, scalable, and extensible as new decision intelligence capabilities are introduced.
• Transform large-scale logistics data into actionable insights and outcomes, supporting use cases such as recommendations, decision support, and automated actions.
• Partner closely with product, data, and design to translate ambiguous customer problems into well-scoped, scalable technical solutions.
• Build and operate systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), leveraging managed services to deliver reliable and scalable backend solutions.
• Take shared ownership of development, testing, deployment, and operations for the systems owned by your team.
• Participate in a team on-call rotation, debugging and resolving issues across your team’s services.
• Improve observability, monitoring, and operational tooling to ensure system reliability and a strong on-call experience.
• Contribute to technical design discussions, code reviews, and documentation, helping set a high bar for quality and maintainability within the team.
• Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.

Skills

Java

Microservices

APIs/REST

Agile

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

MongoDB

DynamoDB

PostgreSQL

Job description

project44 is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our engineering team in Chicago, with on-site presence three days per week and hybrid collaboration. You’ll design, build, and implement best-in-class integrations to connect logistics networks with AI-powered insights.

Base salary ranges from $130,000 to $190,000 with stock options and bonus eligibility, reflecting experience and location. You’ll work in a fast-paced Agile environment on GCP, owning IAM, search, and backend services while