
Back End Developer
Job Description
Posted on: May 10, 2025
About hireworks:
hireworks is building a community of top talent in key international markets by unlocking unparalleled access to positions at leading U.S. based companies. As your employer, hireworks will ensure you have a seamless interview, onboarding, and employee experience - providing ongoing support and resources along the way. Established in 2023, hireworks is forging corp-to-corp relationships with leading U.S. based organizations looking to grow their teams with best-in-class talent around the world. Working with hireworks means unlocking access to a network of local peers and mentors and career opportunities through our client network.
About our client:
Have you ever stopped to wonder how your computer, clothes, furniture or household goods made their way to your doorstep? Most likely, almost everything you own arrived here in a container on a container ship. It is a massive industry that we all heavily rely on but don’t think about much because it’s been done the same way for decades without much change or innovation. Our client is a well-funded, series A startup that’s transforming the centuries old shipping industry by solving its problems of inefficiency, unpredictability, and volatility and looking to capture $23 billion of economic waste annually!
The opportunities:
• Being part of a small team means you’ll be responsible for solutions that have a serious impact on the business and our systems
• You’ll interact with carriers, shippers, and regulatory agencies to design systems that bring and old industry up to today’s standards
• Flexibility to design and propose innovative solutions that solve real industry problems
• Talented, diligent coworkers who constantly collaborate and learn together
• A company culture that blends old-school industry knowledge with modern tech-inspired problem solving
• Competitive compensation, 401k, equity, and unlimited vacation
The ideal engineer:
• Enjoys solving difficult problems and translating those solutions into high performance code
• Possesses a solid mix of initiative, imagination, and work ethic
• Understands what it takes to work at a start-up, including the need to ‘wear multiple hats’
• Considers system architecture and how changes will affect testability, maintainability, and scalability of the system
• Constantly works to identify and mitigate security concerns, refactor old code judiciously, and follow development best practices
• Understands the importance of automated testing and continuous integration in delivering bugfree, fully test-covered code in short time frames
The required skills:
• 3+ years of backend experience building and maintaining high throughput, distributed, multithreaded web services
• A strong command of fundamental data structures and algorithms
• The ability to work proficiently in the following areas with the respective tools:
o Languages: Java, Ruby
o Databases: PostgreSQL
o Frameworks/Tools: Spring-Boot
o Integration: REST, Queuing/Messaging Services
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
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