Software Engineer (US)

Nuvocargo is reinventing the $2 trillion freight forwarding industry. We are a digital-first freight forwarder using a mix of technology and exceptional service to help companies seamlessly move products across the Americas, starting with the biggest trade lane in the world: Mexico <-> USA cross-border trucking. We were ranked #2 on Fast Company's most innovative companies in 2022 and as a Y Combinator Top Company and are looking for top talent to embrace this adventure.

As a Nuvocargo software engineer, you will work in a product team with other talented engineers, product managers and product designers. You will likely lean into one area or specialty, either on the frontend or backend, but you will be excited to learn and deepen your skill set in other areas. Day to day, you will collaborate and pair with your engineering teammates helping to architect and implement solutions that add value to Nuvocargo's shippers, carriers and the dynamics of the marketplace.

Expectations in this role:

• You are a contributor who promotes software best practices and team health. You create a positive impact through your work.
• As your work inspires your team to work with you, you are able to occasionally mentor them and connecting people.
• You drive solutions to simplify complexity and develop the approach to tackle a problem. You have a background in overseeing complex systems with subsystems, internal initiatives.
• You are a practitioner that understands the broader context of the system you impact, going on at least one area of the product.

Tech stack

• Several React.js applications deployed statically as Jamstack apps to Netlify
• Our design system and mockups specified in Figma, with common components codified in React Styleguidist
• A Ruby on Rails API serving an OpenAPI 3 specified endpoints influenced by the conventions in the JSON:API spec
• The Rails API is backed by a Postgres database, a Redis instance and integrations with third party data sources.
• Automated continuous integration and deployment pipelines for the frontend and backend that spin up review applications after they have run the test and build suite.

Who you are

• You love deploying features. One of your favorite feelings is shipping code and releasing new features to users. You know when to accrue technical debt in order to get a feature live. You strive for simple, readable code and you are averse to over-engineering the task at hand (YAGNI).
• You have a track record of building great software in fast-growing companies. You have battle scars and wisdom from many years of building software in ever-changing environments. That wisdom comes both from projects that were incredibly successful and from projects that were abject failures.
• You are passionate about making an impact in the Latin American startup ecosystem. You want to have a direct impact in establishing Nuvocargo's engineering org as one that bridges the gaps between Silicon Valley startups and the Latin American startup ecosystem.
• 1 + 1 = 3. You strongly believe that collaboration, pairing, mentoring and raising the bar for everyone on the team makes the team greater than the sum of its parts.
• You are a software craftsperson who believes in the never-ending journey to mastery. You believe in creating well crafted software, steadily adding value to stakeholders (as well as the engineering team and your future self) and collaborating with others with an open mind and flexible opinions.
• You thrive in a low-friction, light-process environment. We are not a meeting-heavy org. You are self-motivated to write great software, release great products, pair with team members all without spending hours deliberating whether something is "3 points" or "5 points".
• You are intellectually curious. You are probably a polyglot when it comes to programming languages (and natural languages), even if you don't have mastery over those other languages. You are always curious to dabble in a new library or framework or language and you analyze their high level pros and cons without even realizing it.
• You are both a great communicator and listener. You are great at synthesizing inputs from different sources; you speak and write clearly, concisely, and with a structure that gets everyone on the same page when things feel messy.

Must haves

• Fluency in English
• 2+ of professional experience of developing and deploying production software
• Professional experience in at least one dynamically typed language (JavaScript, Ruby, Python etc)

Nice to haves

• Professional experience at a software startup
• Expertise in JavaScript or Ruby
• Experience as a technical mentor
• Experience designing and building APIs

Our engineering teams

If you join Nuvocargo, you will join an engineering team in one of the following product verticals:

Shipper

Design and build the platform that drives the acquisition, engagement and retention of Nuvocargo's clients, companies who need to move commercial cargo between the US, Mexico and Canada.

Carrier

Designs and builds the platform that drives acquisition, engagement and retention of trucking companies who have the ability to pick up and move cargo from A to B in North America.

Marketplace

Designs and builds software that enables Nuvocargo to make strategic decisions on market pricing between the supply and demand sides of the freight marketplace.

Career path

As a software engineer, you will have the opportunity to learn new skills and patterns from your peers and the leaders around you. In this role you will have the opportunity to continue leveling up on the individual contributor track to become a senior software engineer. As a senior software engineer, you are able to continue your path as a more senior individual contributor, or take on leadership responsibilities by moving into a Technical Lead role or Engineering Management role.

At Nuvocargo, we are happy to embrace individual contributors who are more senior than their tech leads or engineering managers. If you are someone who wants to keep designing software, writing code and shipping software most of the time, there is a path for you at Nuvocargo to continue leveling up.

What we offer:

• A unique & fun culture at the intersection of the freight and technology industries as well as between the USA and Latin American work cultures.
• Above market salary, benefits, and a robust employee stock ownership program to make you an owner and partner of the business.
• Remote-first location strategy and allows you to work from wherever. Hybrid office / work from home model that allows for flexibility and collaboration time in our Polanco / New York City office. Beautiful modern Polanco office space that is perfect for collaboration.
• A chance to join the ground floor of a well-funded, fast-growing startup that is modernizing a trillion dollar industry critical to the global economy.

Nuvocargo is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

More about Nuvocargo:

International logistics is the multi-trillion dollar connective tissue of the world economy, but it's been slow to leverage the power of technology; it's finally going digital, and Nuvocargo is playing a big role in driving this historic shift.

We believe that true expertise in logistics cannot be automated and is incredibly valuable; however, we think software and technology can give logistics professionals superpowers to help provide shippers with the best service, and make everyone's lives easier.

We're growing quickly, and are backed by some of the world's best investors from both Silicon Valley and Latin America such as Tiger Global Management, The Flexport Fund, QED (founders of $60B+ Capital One), NFX (Silicon Valley fund with $10bn in exits), the founders of Nubank ($30B+), Loft ($3B+), Ramp ($2B+), and Rappi ($5B+), Y Combinator (~1% acceptance rate, created $300bn worth of startups), and angels who have built, exited, or currently sit on the board of companies worth over $100 billion.

Our DNA is comprised of four very distinct worlds and cultures: Silicon Valley, Logistics, Latin America, and USA. We are at the intersection of these worlds and laying the foundations for hyper-growth at one of the most tech-forward 3PL's in both the US and Mexico.

Read more about us here: www.nuvocargo.com/about and feel free to reach out with any questions.

We look forward to working with you!