Senior Full Stack Engineer

About Palmo

We are on a mission to bring sustainable logistics to cities across the globe, replace vans on a large scale and reduce their impact on the environment.

Palmo Autopilot helps electric delivery fleets in cities reduce costs and increase efficiency by automating and optimising their dispatching. To do so, we are building cutting-edge optimisation algorithms that are easy to integrate and deploy.

We are a small team of experienced builders and, having recently raised our first round of funding, are looking to build a world-class engineering team. If you care about our mission, are deeply passionate about your work, and looking for a tough challenge, we d like to talk.

Our offices are in Berlin and Bucharest, and this role requires working in-person with our CTO and our tight-knit engineering team in the first. We believe that face-to-face interaction is critical at our early stage and enables us to move faster.

Tasks

The role

We are looking for an exceptional Full Stack Engineer with a back-end focus. You'll report directly to the CTO and have ownership and responsibility over key areas of our product and technology. As one of our first colleagues, you will be crucial in shaping Palmo s success and culture. We are looking for a generalist who is excited at the prospect of mastering new technologies to solve business problems, and will enjoy the thrills of fast-growing early-stage startups.

Your focus will be on building and maintaining our back-end infrastructure. This includes the system around our purpose-built route optimisation algorithm, which requires secure, resilient, and real-time ingestion, consumption and processing of data from various delivery management systems and other integrations.

More specifically, your responsibilities will include:

• Managing the end-to-end lifecycle for the production of software
• Developing and designing APIs and Data Connectors
• Preparing databases for functionality
• Working on troubleshooting, debugging, and software upgrades
• Establishing data security and data protection settings
• Creating optimised database schemas and implementing security and data protection systems in PostgresDB
• Ensuring the code written is scalable, reusable, and works well across multiple applications inside our repository
• Coordinating with teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructure

Requirements

What we are looking for:

• 6+ years of professional software development experience
• BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding or the hard sciences (e.g. physics or mathematics)
• Have experience with system languages (C++, Go)
• Expertise in DevOps and container orchestration using Kubernetes
• Design and implementation of micro-services in NodeJS
• Be knowledgeable about distributed systems and technologies (gRPC, Kafka, SQL, Redis)
• Experience with cloud provider APIs, best practices and management (AWS and GCP)
• Experience with Terraform, Helmfile, Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience working on either complex enterprise-grade systems or proven ability to build a greenfield product from start to finish
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Experience with GitHub/GitLab CI/CD
• Experience with optimisation algorithms and operations research is a big plus

You are:

• Passionate about solving climate change and excited to contribute to doing so at a fast-paced startup. Interest in transport or logistics is also a big plus
• Self-motivated, have a growth mindset, and are excited at the prospect of new challenges
• Highly adaptable and flexible. If you thrive on uncertainty and are looking for a wild ride, you will like it here
• Thrilled about your work, take ownership and pride yourself on being able to get a lot done and do so at a fast pace
• A team player with good communication skills is key, as building a product of Palmo s complexity is a highly collaborative effort
• Gifted with high attention to detail, as we are building mission-critical infrastructure for our clients, without which they ll struggle to operate
• Passionate about software development, new technologies, industry news, etc. it s not just your career, it s your hobby.

Benefits

Why this is an awesome opportunity

• Use your experience to work on the most important problem of our generation. This is an opportunity to truly make an impact - for our clients, cities and climate
• Get to shape Palmo s trajectory from day 1 and grow with the company
• Competitive salary and significant equity