Senior Operations and System Architect

Enru™ Logistics and Postal Optimization is about to do for logistics what we did for co-mail: optimize it, through our proprietary, digital-first technology and strategic network of consolidation warehouses. 

Enru partners with shippers, mailers, carriers, and drivers to gather crucial, real-time data through proprietary technology to efficiently and predictably deliver mail and shipments via our optimized supply chain network. We keep things moving in ways never before possible. Our team is growing rapidly, apply today to get your career moving with Enru! 

Summary: Enru Logistics and Postal Optimization is looking to hire a Senior Operations and System Architect to support fleet planning, owner operators and software design efforts. This role sits hybrid in our Atlanta, GA office. Our state-of-the-art logistics optimization software as a service company is seeking a highly motivated and skilled leader to join our operations and planning. This is an exciting opportunity for a recent graduate or early career individual to gain hands-on experience in the field of logistics technology and software development.   If you are passionate about software engineering and logistics and want to be a part of a team that is revolutionizing the logistics industry, we encourage you to apply. 

Key Responsibilities:  

• Collaborate with the team, ensure trucks are planned, minimizing deadhead, dwell and optimizing loaded miles
• Collaborate with the team, leveraging your logistics planning and technical experience to bridge gaps and address key data issues while defining technical needs through day-to-day use of the platform
• Develop and execute a technical roadmap to ensure technology grows and meets the demand of Enru’s growth objectives
• Work in concert with software engineering leader on technology design and implementation needs
• Lead design discussions, ideation and concept generation to solve problems and document new designs
• Maintain diagrams, data flows, and relationships in how systems are connected
• Solicit, contribute and implement best practices and patterns, work with team to ensure implementation and use of best practices including automation, Linux, OO Concepts, Performance Tuning, best practices in building and maintaining software systems.
• Ensure solutions are holistic in design and consider error conditions and are secure
• Identify re-use patterns for modules, calculations, and other critical functions to ensure maintainability and modularity of solutions
• Partner with DevOPS engineers around monitoring opportunities and solution
• Work with Software Leaders to define security and other development/design standards
• Understand and differentiate when to apply various design patterns such as event driven, query/response, and others
• Partner with 3rd parties to jointly deliver technical solutions to enable business objectives
• Support daily standups, identify and manage dependencies and tracking deliverables in an Agile development environment
• Identify and drive data driven decisions
• Develop and maintain system design documentation, architecture diagrams and other artifacts
• Differentiate between availability needs and costs to apply balance
• Understand and apply concepts behind authentication vs authorization, integration with SSO for internal and external facing applications and services
• Provide guidance for team around security best practices, apply in designs and patterns a security first approach

Qualifications & Skills: 

• Working experience in Logistics driver/truck asset planning and building technology to enable scaling the business
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent degree
• 12+ years of relevant job experience, inclusive of the following:
• Software development experience, application of object-oriented design concepts, code reuse and other modularization techniques
• Awareness of open-source projects/libraries/tools.
• Experience with UML sequence diagrams or other methods to communicate how modules interact with a larger system
• Practical application of Azure (preferred), AWS and/or Google cloud services and configuration
• Experience with Kafka, Azure Event Hub or other pub/sub event driven architectures
• Experience with Docker/Containerization of workloads
• Knowledge with Kubernetes
• Experience with development and/or architecture experience with building/running SaaS platforms
• Working knowledge of databases, data, data quality best practices
• Ability to follow company policies and understand any rules or regulations governing the work being completed
• Ability to understand the impact this role has on our department or company
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written
• Good collaboration and time management skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with diverse groups of people
• Energetic and eager to tackle new projects and ideas
• Linux command line experience (bash, csh, zsh, etc.) and ssh
• Experience with a programming language like Python, Java, C++ and others
• Ability to understand complex problems and data
• Proficient computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and the ability to learn additional programs as needed
• Willingness to work extremely hard and go above and beyond in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment. 

ESG Statement: We strive to make our world better by utilizing ingenuity and technology to minimize our environmental impact, cultivating a business that recognizes the intrinsic value of diversity and inclusion, and requiring accountability, transparency, and integrity in everything we do. 

Want to learn more about Enru? Connect with us on LinkedIn! www.linkedin.com/company/enruio and Check out our website here: www.enru.io