About Boxed:

Boxed was launched in our CEO’s garage in 2013 to make shopping for bulk-sized products easy, convenient and fun. We deliver a first-class e-commerce experience for everyday essentials across the country.

About the Team:

The Logistics Engineering team works closely with operations to innovate and execute a mixture of tried and true as well as cutting-edge solutions. We work on services that support warehouse management, local delivery/BOPIS management, and worker (picker, shopper, rider) management.  We make react-native mobile apps for the fulfillment centers to pick and pack orders; concocted raspberry pi driven solutions to scan labels, weigh boxes, and print labels; we’ve even made a robot or forty to traverse the warehouse to carry the goods from pickers to packers. Presently, we’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Logistics Engineering) to help us build software for the next step in our evolution of fulfillment.  

Where we’re located: 

Currently, all corporate employees are working remotely from home until it is deemed safe to return to our offices by local and state health officials. We have offices located in New York City (NY), Union (NJ) and San Mateo (CA), and three fulfillment centers in Union (NJ), Las Vegas (NV), and Dallas (TX).  Fully remote candidates will be considered for this role but preference will be given to those in the vicinity of office locations or fulfillment centers.  

You will:

• Be a critical part of not just the technology team but to the company as an excellent problem solver
• Design and implement solutions to provide value as quickly, reliably, and correctly as possible
• Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our existing systems
• Write clear documentation and automated tests to ensure code reliability and ease of maintenance
• Review your peers’ code to teach and learn while improving software quality. 

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 4+ years of relevant experience in software development
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a healthy experimental attitude
• Experience writing tests for the code you have written
• Ability to work with and mentor small teams
• Experience with Agile and Scrum development methodologies
• Developing tools for warehouse management a plus
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
• Take initiative and be responsible for technical solutions to data quality and workflow challenges.

Skills:

• Proficiency with Typescript/Javascript
• Proficiency with MongoDB, SQL
• Experience with Node.js
• Experience with REST, GraphQL
• Experience with Microservices and Event-Driven Architecture
• Experience with React and/or React Native
• Experience with Git
• Familiarity with Go
• Familiarity with Websockets
• Familiarity with CI/CD, Jenkins and infrastructure such as Docker, Kubernetes

Our Package for You!

Alongside our customer focus and technology DNA, we pride ourselves on our employee centric mentality. NBC Nightly News called our CEO, Chieh Huang, “America’s Dream Boss” for our generous benefits. Our team enjoys competitive compensation plus stock options, flexible parental leave, unlimited paid time off, weekly company-wide events, and lots of other perks -- just some of the reasons we made Crain’s list of best places to work in NYC. We’d love to meet you, so apply today!

Don’t meet all of our requirements? Not a problem. We’re always looking for fast learners who may have a less than standard path or the exact skillset mentioned above. Please apply anyways and show us why you’re awesome!