Vorto
Backend Engineeer
Denver Office
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 195 days ago
PythonGoBackend DevelopmentSQLPostgreSQLRedisGCPCI/CDLLMsAgentic AISupply ChainLogisticsCommunication
About the role
- We are looking for a Backend Engineer who thrives in one of the hardest environments in business: legacy supply chains, enterprise customers, startup speed, and chaotic real-world operations.
- At Vorto, engineers are builder-owners who turn messy, ambiguous problems into automated, scalable systems that transform how freight moves across America.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate services used daily by shippers, carriers, and drivers
- Own Problems end to end
- Fluency with SQL schema design and data modeling for transactional & analytical workloads.
- At VORTO we are committed to developing our employees and providing them exciting opportunities to grow and prosper in their careers.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production systems at scale.
- Demonstrated ability to leverage LLMs/AI agents to boost velocity and solve novel problems.
- Proven track record of owning problems end to end
- Experience stabilizing and scaling large code bases
- This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee.
- Disclaimer: This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee.
Compensation
- 1+ million shipments per year
Benefits
- Paid Time Off and Holidays
- Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Flex and Health Savings Plans
- Company-paid life and short-term disability insurance
- Voluntary income protection benefits including Life, AD&D, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, and Accident Protection Insurance
- Tuition Assistance
- We offer a competitive benefits package as well as numerous additional perks, including:
Company info
- 1+ million shipments per year
- Over $1 billion of freight under management
- Cashflow positive since inception
- Backed by Golden Gate Capital, a Tier 1 private equity firm based in San Francisco, CA.
- Golden Gate has a diverse portfolio of companies with over $15 billion in committed capital.
- About the Role
- You'll work across the stack to design, build, and operate mission-critical services - embedding AI agents, stabilizing and scaling high-volume systems, and automating workflows that eliminate manual work.
- Successful engineers here move with 10× speed, recover quickly, understand fundamentals deeply, and own outcomes end-to-end.
- If you want to build world-class systems, solve real-world complexity, and operate at the intersection of AI and logistics, this role is for you.
- Vorto is on a mission to improve America's Supply Chain efficiency and sustainability.
- Vorto uses AI technology to reduce empty miles and idle time created in matching shippers and truckers.
- Additionally, it deploys an agentic AI platform to automate and remove inefficiencies from all players involved in Supply Chain.
Equal opportunity
- VORTO is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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