Senior Backend Engineer
About Us
What if your work could drive change in a globally established industry, shaping processes that touch every corner of the world? At Forto, we are at the forefront of change, harnessing the power of AI to revolutionise logistics. We want to reinvent digital supply chains to be transparent, frictionless and sustainable. From day one, our mission has been to simplify global trade – creating a seamless and efficient logistics process.
About the role
The Capacity team is on a mission to provide a best in class capacity planning and allocation management system that answers the difficult question: "Which contract from our portfolio should we use to move any given shipment?" We make sure every customer gets the best terms to move their goods by efficiently utilizing our agreements with partners. The team owns contract and contract rate management; capacity planning and contract utilization steering; customer allocation and shipment nomination automation.
As a Senior Backend Engineer in our Capacity team, you will build the "brain" behind our logistics operations. You’ll maintain and evolve a sophisticated event-driven architecture designed to answer one crucial question: "How do we move this shipment most efficiently?"
From contract rate management to automated shipment nomination, you will lead the charge in creating reliable, data-heavy systems that optimize our global portfolio. You aren’t just writing code; you’re building a revenue-driving engine. Working alongside industry experts, you will mentor your team to deliver robust services that enable NVOCCs to thrive. If you are passionate about leading teams to solve massive logistical challenges, we want to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
Design and implement robust backend services for capturing, storing, and validating procurement contract rates and allotment volumes, ensuring 100% data integrity for our supply chain logic.
Lead the evolution of our event-driven microservices to process high-velocity data, enabling real-time updates on contract utilization and space availability.
Refactor and optimize existing systems responsible for shipment-to-contract matching to ensure low-latency performance and high maintainability.
Build and iterate on the logic that answers "Which contract should we use?" by automating the nomination process based on cost, volume commitments, and carrier performance.
Streamline the ingestion and management of complex carrier agreements, moving from manual entry toward a fully automated, API-driven roadmap.
Develop tools that provide dynamic visibility into our capacity vs. demand, allowing the business to shift volumes proactively to meet carrier volume commitments.
Collaborate on integrating ML models for capacity forecasting, helping the team predict future space requirements and steer shipments more intelligently.
Lead initiatives between Engineering, Product, and the Global Procurement team to ensure our technical roadmap aligns with logistics market trends and revenue goals.
Foster a culture of excellence by coaching team members in best practices for backend engineering, domain-driven design, and navigating the complexities of the logistics domain.
Required Skills and Experience
Strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis, particularly as they apply to large-scale data processing and financial calculations.
Proven professional software craftsmanship, with a focus on building high-quality, maintainable, and testable code (an understanding of TDD is a plus).
Expertise in designing and implementing large-scale, event-driven microservices architectures and robust APIs, with a keen understanding of data consistency in distributed systems.
Deep understanding of synchronous vs. asynchronous communication patterns and their impact on system performance and reliability
Hands-on experience developing distributed backend applications, with a strong focus on data consistency, system quality, low latency, and high availability.
Proficiency in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles and their application in microservices, with hands-on experience in backend technologies such as Node.js, TypeScript, and MongoDB.
Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration for deploying and managing scalable pricing services.
Experience with cloud providers (AWS or GCP preferred) for deploying and managing highly available and scalable applications.
A collaborative, team-oriented mindset with strong critical product thinking and a sense of ownership over the accuracy and effectiveness of pricing data.
Fluent in English, both verbal and written, for effective communication within a global team.
Don’t fit all of our criteria? That’s okay! We know that you might be hesitant to apply if you don’t meet all our requirements, but here at Forto, we pride ourselves on embracing diverse perspectives and celebrating potential. If you are passionate about this position and the Forto values, please apply anyway. There could be a place for you in this role - or another one that’s a perfect fit!
Why work with us?
Our team is hard-working, constantly seeking to maximise the impact of their work, but we put our people first, always winning with care. We value efficient systems and swift, direct communication. We want everyone to have their time to speak, so that we can embrace diverse perspectives to help drive towards solutions always.