Transfix, named one of Forbes' "Next Billion-Dollar Startups" in 2018, is the leading freight marketplace that's transforming the $800 billion trucking industry, connecting shippers to a national network of reliable carriers. Fortune 500 companies such as Anheuser-Busch, Unilever, and Target rely on Transfix to handle their most important FTL freight needs. With instant pricing tools, guaranteed capacity, data-driven insights, and reliable service, Transfix is changing the world of transportation one load at a time. Join us, and leave a positive impact on the environment as we help reduce the carbon footprint caused by the 65 billion wasted miles on the road.

Based in New York City, Transfix is backed by top VC firms including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Canvas Ventures, and Lerer Hippeau.

The problems we solve everyday are real and require creativity, grit, and determination. We are building a culture that challenges norms while fostering experimentation and personal growth. We're hiring team members who are passionate and are energized by the vision to simplify and transform one of the largest and most complex industries through technology, data and a strong commitment to customers. 

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Our Software Engineers work in cross-functional teams to build world-class products that transform the lynchpin of our global economy—the supply chain.

If you’re excited about transforming an industry, being part of an innovative culture, and making a positive impact on the environment, send us your resume.

What you'll do:

• Build the core freight-management software platform that allows us to serve a variety of players in the freight transportation sector—manufacturers, national retail chains, trucking companies, dispatchers, and more.
• Expand our existing products and APIs to serve new customer types and modes of transportation across the freight industry.
• Contribute to our front-end web application, back-end services and APIs, or both.
• Integrate our software with a variety of freight management APIs, automated shipping brokerages, and external data providers.
• Identify and resolve web performance bottlenecks in front-end and back-end code.
• Expand your experience working with industry best-practices that include Continuous Deployment, automated testing (unit- and end-to-end), production monitoring, and alerting systems.
• Participate in blameless post-mortems and retrospectives that enable us to learn from both failures and successes in order to improve team process and software design.
• Our tech stack is comprised of Ruby on Rails, Python, React/Redux, PostgreSQL, Redis, Dynamo, RedShift. We are hosted on AWS and leverage a variety of their services. Code is tested using CircleCI and a variety of unit- and end-to-end testing frameworks including RSpec, unittest, Jest, and Cypress. We monitor our production software with tools like New Relic and Datadog.

About you:

• You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar field, or have equivalent training or work experience.
• You are proficient with at least one of these languages: Ruby, Python, or JavaScript (including Node.js or React)
• You have 2+ years of career experience building software products (including internships).
• You take pride in your work and the quality of products you build.
• You value collaboration and enjoy teaching and learning from peers.
• You speak up when you see something wrong and back your opinions with data.

To all recruitment agencies: Transfix does not accept unsolicited agency resumes and will not be held responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.