Sr. Software Development Engineer (Cloud Platform)

Who We Are:

At Platform Science, we’re working to connect everything that moves.

Founded in 2015, we are an open IoT platform that partners with innovative fleets, application developers, vehicle manufacturers, and equipment providers in the transportation industry to deliver revolutionary solutions to supply chain professionals across the globe.

Our employees are an engaging, diverse group of people who believe in the power of great ideas. We hire people with different experiences and perspectives to build a company culture that fuels growth through innovation.

We value thoughtful actions and empathy for others.  We approach challenges with resiliency and creativity, while encouraging transparency because, no matter our backgrounds or responsibilities, we are one team.

About the Team:

Platform Science is an engineering-focused organization. We have many separate teams: Incredible Android engineers who are building tablet systems from the OS up, driver legal compliance application builders, navigation teams, and far more. 

To make every one of these teams a success, they need a core Cloud Platform. Our Cloud Platform team owns SSO authentication, User and Driver management, Roles and Permissions systems, feature enablement, and everything else necessary to let other teams focus on their core products’ responsibilities. We sit right at the heart of everything.

Our Cloud Platform team is full-stack. Our backends use PHP/Laravel and NGINX in Docker, or Node/Express microservices in Lambda, serving REST APIs. Our front ends are predominantly VueJS.

Our engineering teams are classic Scrum “two pizza teams” of 3-10 developers and SDETs, plus Product Owner and Scrum Master. With Platform Science well-funded and in hyper-growth, our teams need to build, fork and specialize to deliver on that promise. This leads to equally rapid opportunities for careers to develop with them.

The Right Fit For You:

Platform Science is a rapidly growing company with a lot of teams working on different areas. If you like what you see, but aren’t sure you’re a perfect fit for this one role, please contact us anyway - we may have an even better match for you.

We are dedicated to a transparent interview process. If selected for an interview, we will have a candid discussion to assess which level and/or position you would thrive in most at Platform Science.

What We're Looking For:

These are the must have skills for our team

• A team player
• Comfortable with Agile/Scrum, two week Sprints, and Jira
• Able to consistently deliver on promises
• Always excited to lift others on the team up
• Not afraid to ask for help
  
• A true full-stack developer, with a passion for, and skills on, both the front and back end
• Experienced with one or more modern Front End frameworks such as Angular, React or Vue
• Experienced with one or more backend languages and associated frameworks
• Experienced with API design, development and maintenance in production (REST)
• Have an ability to discuss the fundamentals of testing, its different types and why they matter
• Experienced with CI/CD, deployment tools, pipelines and processes
  
• Familiar with software development best practices and principles
• Loves to collaborate with a team on planning complex, large scale initiatives
• Able to advocate persuasively for your beliefs and compromise to help the whole company succeed
  
• Able to demonstrate ownership of, not just participation in, multiple successful, related projects

What will make you stand out - not required:

We don’t expect anyone to have all of these but everything you can tell us about helps you stand out from the crowd. If you don’t know, we love to teach.

• Breadth and depth of experience with multiple server-side languages/frameworks:
  Particularly Node/Express, PHP/Laravel. Others are welcome
• Serverless API Development: API Gateway, Lambda, Node, Serverless/SAM
• Experience with designing and maintaining high availability systems
• Mentoring and teaching experience
• A bachelor’s degree in software engineering or equivalent

Platform Science Benefits Highlights:

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits (some plans for employees are 100% covered by Platform Science)
• Generous paid time off and company holidays
• 401k matching 
• Investment in your professional growth in the company

At this time we only consider candidates in these states: AL, AR, AZ, CA, FL, GA, ID, IL, KY, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NV, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, and WI. In the future we plan to add more states.