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Data collected directly from the trailer’s sensors and components powers real-time, proprietary strategic insights through a digital dashboard-helping our customers increase utilization, enhance safety, and reduce maintenance costs.\nAt FleetPulse, we believe our people are our greatest asset. We foster a collaborative, innovative, and supportive work environment where every team member plays a crucial role in driving success. By joining FleetPulse, you become part of a company committed to shaping the future of the transportation industry while valuing the unique contributions of every individual.\nThis role is based in Chicago, IL, and candidates must be able to work on-site. Relocation assistance is not provided for this position.\nWe're looking for an engineer who:\nWe're looking for an experienced software engineer to accelerate our team's initiatives and improve the FleetPulse platform. This isn't a role where you hand off a ticket and move on - you'll work directly alongside customers and stakeholders, own initiatives end-to-end, and ship solutions that have immediate, visible impact on the fleets that depend on us.\n\nOur team owns the entire platform stack and there are opportunities to work both frontend and backend.\n\nFleetPulse's technical stack is Kotlin/Spring, React, and React Native, but experience in any similar web application framework is valuable.\n\nIdeal candidates will have full stack web application development experience with similar tools and should be comfortable tackling projects from end to end with similar tools and should be comfortable tackling projects from end to end.\n\nOverview:\nWe're looking for an experienced software engineer to accelerate our team's initiatives.\n\nFleetPulse's technical stack is Kotlin/Java, React, and React Native, but experience in any similar web application framework is valuable.\n\nIdeal candidates will have full stack web application development experience with similar tools and should be comfortable tackling projects from end to end.\n\nEnjoy seeing their own efforts have an outsized impact on the business and our customers.\n\nAre passionate about API design, observability, and building platforms.\n\nAre eager to learn and improve their craft as a software engineer and share that experience with their team members.\n\nElevate the team's technical standards, lead code and design reviews, and mentor engineers on best practices.\n\nExcited to learn new technologies and contribute across the stack.\n\nAre able to be a partner with our product stakeholder to refine requirements, work with others to figure out what needs to be done and drive a project forward - including engaging directly with customers to understand real problems and translate them into solutions.\n\nAre comfortable navigating ambiguity and can help define what needs to be built, not just execute on a spec.\n\nYour Qualifications:\n5+ years’ experience as a professional software developer.\n\nExperience with Kotlin, Java, Python or another backend language.\n\nExperience with AWS / GCP\n\nFamiliarity with relational databases and schema design.\n\nPassionate about code quality and engineering best practices.\n\nExperience with large distributed systems with an emphasis on observability, instrumentation, monitoring.\n\nIntuition for when to call it \"good enough\", and when to put in the extra time to polish.\n\nYou get along well with others and thrive in a collaborative environment.\n\nChicago, IL based.\n\nBenefits:\nUnlimited PTO\n\nCompany 6% 401k Match\n\nChoice of three healthcare plans\n\nDental & Vision\n\nCompany provided STD, LTD and Life Insurance\n\n12 paid company holidays\n\nFull paid parental leave\n\nCompensation range: $140,000 - $165,000 annually\n\nWork Environment:\nThe work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nWork environment: Employees must be able to travel to and attend the office to work in person, as required. The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal to moderate.\n Limitations and Disclaimer:\nThe above job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for the position.\nThis job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties requested by their supervisor that are in compliance with Federal and State Laws.\nRequirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or other characteristics. 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