Title: Software Developer
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Descartes Unites the People and Technology that Move the World
The need for efficient, secure, and agile supply chains and logistics operations has become ever more critical and complex. By combining innovative technology, powerful trade intelligence and the reach of our network, Descartes helps get goods, information, transportation assets, and people where they’re needed, when they’re needed.
We’re one of the most broadly deployed logistics and supply chain technology companies in the world. More than 26,000 customers around the globe use our cloud-based solutions to transform the way they move inventory and information to enhance productivity, better serve customers, thrive competitively, keep pace with evolving regulations, and respond to rapidly changing market conditions. Descartes is publicly traded (Nasdaq:DSGX, TSX:DSG) with headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and offices and partners around the world. With record financial performance for more than 16 years, we lead the industry in innovation investment. Every day, logistics service providers, manufacturers, retailers, distributors, and other logistics-intensive businesses of all sizes rely on our scale, stability, and comprehensive solution footprint to move what’s most important to them. Learn more at www.descartes.com.
We’re growing fast and invite you to join our amazing team.
- Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to support activities such as implementation planning, code generation, refactoring, documentation, test generation, troubleshooting, and code review.
- Apply strong engineering judgment when using AI tools, validating generated outputs for correctness, maintainability, security, and fitness for purpose.
- Design, develop, enhance, and maintain backend services and distributed systems using Java and Kotlin.
- Build and evolve APIs and microservices with a focus on scalability, resilience, maintainability, and performance.
- Participate actively in the full software development lifecycle, from technical design and refinement to implementation, deployment, and production support.
- Work with event-driven architectures and messaging solutions such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS.
- Collaborate in technical discussions, architecture reviews, design reviews, and code reviews.
- Contribute to CI/CD practices and help improve delivery speed, quality, and operational safety.
- Apply observability practices, including logging, metrics, and tracing, to improve service reliability and supportability.
- Lead or support troubleshooting during critical incidents, document findings properly, and contribute to postmortem analysis and continuous improvement actions.
- Produce and maintain clear technical and architectural documentation, including diagrams, RFCs, ADRs, Microservice Canvas, and similar artifacts.
- Mentor other developers and help elevate engineering standards, technical quality, and team maturity.
- Review solutions with attention to security, reliability, and alignment with architecture and business requirements.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools and workflows, such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, spec-driven development, and reusable structured skills/workflows, to improve engineering productivity and quality.
- Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated code, tests, and technical suggestions, ensuring alignment with architectural standards, business needs, and secure software practices.
- Ability to guide other developers in the effective and responsible use of AI in software development.
- Open-minded to new challenges, including learning new languages, frameworks, and technology stacks.
- Strong experience with backend software development using Java and/or Kotlin.
- Solid knowledge of Spring Framework and its ecosystem.
- Strong experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
- Experience with production deployment tools and platforms such as Docker, ECS, Fargate, Kubernetes, or similar technologies.
- Experience with event processing or message queues such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and continuous delivery practices.
- Experience delivering software with end-to-end ownership, from technical conception to production delivery and support.
- Strong proficiency with Git as a version control system.
- Ability to design robust solutions for complex technical problems.
- Experience with observability practices in microservices environments.
- Experience with SQL and common NoSQL databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
- Experience working in Agile environments such as Scrum, Kanban, or XP.
- Professional communication skills in English, both written and spoken.
- Experience mentoring other developers.
- Ability to lead troubleshooting sessions during critical incidents and contribute to postmortem sessions.
- Strong understanding of software engineering and computer science fundamentals.
- Experience reviewing code and solutions for adherence to common software security standards and industry best practices.
- Experience designing high-availability APIs and resilient backend services.
- Experience preparing architectural documentation and communicating technical complexity through diagrams and structured technical documents.
- Experience in Reactive Systems Programming.
- Experience in Machine Learning or AI-enabled product features.
- Experience deploying products or working with cloud providers such as AWS or Azure.
- Experience with JavaScript or TypeScript in product environments.
- Experience contributing to technical standards, architecture evolution, and cross-team engineering practices.
Join Us
As we scale, we’re looking for new doers, collaborators and innovators to join Descartes in uniting the people and technology that move the world as the Global Leader in Logistics and Supply Chain Technology. We’re entrepreneurial, hardworking, geeky-in-a-good way problem solvers. Guided by our values, we nurture a TEAM focused culture that invests in people and creates opportunities for advancement across a broad spectrum of career paths. We prioritize work-life balance and foster an environment with the space to take ownership, to be heard, and to carve a path for your individual accomplishments to help drive our success.
Descartes also has a deep sense of environmental responsibility. Learn more about how we helped our customers save over 552,000 metric tons of CO2 in 2020 by reducing fuel and paper consumption: https://www.descartes.com/who-we-are/social-responsibility-sustainability/environmental-impact. Join a team that’s committed to working with customers to conserve resources and enhance sustainability.
At Descartes, everyone has a voice and the best idea wins, regardless of who makes it. We offer competitive compensation, great benefits, remote and flexible work hours, and the opportunity to join a company on an awesome mission with a great existing team and trajectory. If you feel you have 70% of the qualifications we are looking for, and Descartes sounds like the team and the mission you want to be part of, apply now. We can't promise it will be a fit, but we do promise to consider your experience.
We conduct a mix of in-person and virtual interviews. Virtual interviews are held via Microsoft Teams and are recorded and transcribed. We may utilize AI tools to support our hiring team in notetaking, summarization, and internal training. AI tools are not used in our recruitment process for decision-making purposes. Recordings, transcripts, and notes are used for recruitment, including improvement of our process, and record-keeping purposes. Should you have any questions or concerns about our process, please connect with our hiring team in advance of scheduled interviews.
We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please review our EEO is the Law, Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Statement, EEO/AA Statement. Descartes participates in the E-Verify program. Please click below to learn more about the E-Verify program. Notice of E-Verify Participation Right to Work (English and Spanish).
Descartes is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with disabilities. Applicants in North America with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process can email us at hrna@descartes.com. Provide your name and contact information along with the accommodation needed to assist you with the application process. Your request will be responded to as soon as possible. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
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