Application Software Engineer

Abilities, technical skills and domain knowledge

Abilities

• Must be intellectually curious and passionate about technology

• Ability to collect and analyze data effectively

• Ability to work independently

• Must possess excellent planning and analytical skills, superior communication skills

Technical skills

• Must possess basic knowledge of our platforms and systems: EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudWatch, Docker, ActiveMQ, RDS/Postgres, Firebase and Sentry.

• Must possess knowledge of languages including Java, Kotlin and SQL. Optionally React, HTML/CSS and JavaScript, as well, for frontend work.

• Knowledge of React Native and Kotlin is desired but not required.

• Knowledge of our SaaS providers is desired but not required: GitHub, GitLab, Sentry, Intercom, Airtable, Expo.

Domain knowledge

• Prior working knowledge of railroad operations.

• Prior working knowledge of GIS or location-based data and systems (including Mapbox and ESRI).

Experience and education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field is required. Demonstrated equivalent experience and education may be considered in lieu of the degree, subject to approval.

• Prior experience designing customer-facing applications.

• Must possess prior experience running projects, writing technical documents including scopes of work, software requirements, and estimates.