Backend Engineer
1 week ago
Location:
Charleston, SC - 997 Morrison Drive, Charleston, SC 29403
Work Environment:
5 days in office
Start date:
Q4 2025-Q1 2026
About The Team:
We build customer facing products and internal tools to support our business, including:
- A container tracking engine, which collects, standardizes, and enriches container shipment tracking information from hundreds of sources across the supply chain. Implemented with containerized cloud hosted Python code, utilizing distributed task processing and deployed using Infrastructure as Code. Backed by a MySQL database.
- An API serving millions of requests per day, used internally and by customers to provide, update, and retrieve shipment data. Containerized FastAPI web server running on AWS.
- Pulumi components and Python packages used by another internal team to write and deploy hundreds of customer specific data ingestion, cleaning, and transformation scripts.
- A container payment portal which calculates demurrage fees, accepts customer payments, and sends hold and release information to terminals for tens of thousands of containers on behalf of some of the largest ocean carriers in the world. Implemented with containerized cloud hosted Python code, deployed using Infrastructure as Code.
What You'll Bring:
We're looking for professional experience with these software engineering concepts. Bonus points for familiarity with our specific tools.
- Containerization: Docker
- Programming: Python
- Distributed Task Processing: Celery, RabbitMQ, SQS
- Package Creation & Management: UV, Pip, Poetry
- Web Frameworks: FastAPI
- Source Control: Git/GitHub
- Deployment: GitHub Actions
- Cloud Compute: AWS Fargate, Lambda
- Infrastructure as Code: Pulumi
- SQL Databases: MySQL, PlanetScale
- NoSQL: Redis, DyanmoDB
- Object Relational Mapping: SQLAlchemy
We value these personal attributes:
- Ownership: Taking ownership of and responsibility for projects. Ability to drive progress, either independently or in a team setting. Caring about projects and seeing them through to the end. Internal drive and initiative.
- Cultural fit: Ability to collaborate with others. Able to communicate, teach, and learn, both in one-on-one and group settings. Respect and kindness for and towards coworkers.
- Abstract Reasoning: Ability to conceptualize, understand, and explain complex, abstract domains. Depth and accuracy of mental models.
Why Build Your Career at Gnosis Freight?
Gnosis Freight has developed proprietary technology – Container Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Marlo Container Tracking Engine – that's shaping the future of logistics. Our software empowers global importers, exporters, and logistics service providers to simplify complex supply chain operations with end-to-end visibility and execution software. Our customers, including many of the world's largest and well-known brands, achieve substantial efficiencies, cost savings, and collaboration using our software daily.
Gnosis Freight is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals and in which personnel processes are merit-based and applied without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military service status, citizenship, or other protected characteristic.
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