[Hiring] Intermediate Software Developer @The Descartes

Role Description

Descartes GroundCloud is scaling a unified platform that powers safety, compliance, and operations for delivery fleets across North America. This role exists to accelerate the evolution of that platform — building reliable, high-impact features that directly improve how tens of thousands of drivers and dispatchers work every day.

• Within 60 days of joining, is delivering well-scoped functionality and fixes with normal code review support.
• Within 90 days, develops a working understanding of their team’s domain, the customer workflows it touches, and how customer support and escalation processes reach engineering. Can contextualize their technical work within the broader customer experience.
• After the initial 90 day ramp period, consistently meets sprint commitments on 85%+ of in-flight work, delivers well-scoped work independently, and proactively pulls in a senior engineer on cross-system or ambiguous work. 90% of contributions require no hotfix or rollback within 30 days of release.
• Within the first year, develops deep expertise in one system or product domain — becoming a go-to for that area — with working familiarity of adjacent systems. Gives useful, timely code review feedback, asks clarifying questions in technical design discussions, and improves documentation and test coverage in the areas they touch.
• Brings customer and business context into the work: asks why a feature matters, surfaces edge cases and gaps during grooming, and flags risk or scope concerns early.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of professional software development experience building and shipping web applications in a team environment.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript (ES2022+), HTML, and CSS.
• Experience building modular frontends using a modern component-based framework — Vue 3 preferred; strong React or Angular experience transfers.
• Solid backend development experience in Python; Django and Django REST Framework preferred, not required.
• Builds and consumes RESTful JSON APIs, and can extend an existing API design consistently.
• Experience with automated testing in a TDD environment (Vitest, PyTest, or equivalent), where every PR includes appropriate unit and functional tests.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL and working with relational data.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure on a major provider (GCP, AWS, or Azure), containerized services with Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.

Requirements

• Writes clean, maintainable, well-tested code using modern workflows (feature flags, short-lived branches, daily merges).
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, agile environments with frequent production deployments.
• Working understanding of common system design trade-offs — indexing, caching, N+1 queries, pagination — and recognizes when a decision needs a wider discussion.
• Solid working knowledge of Git, code review workflows, and collaborative development practices.

Benefits

• Impact: Your work directly affects the daily experience and safety of tens of thousands of drivers.
• Ownership: High autonomy to design, build, and ship meaningful features end-to-end.
• Growth: Opportunities to expand scope into architecture, mentorship, and technical leadership.
• Environment: Fast-moving, collaborative team with a strong engineering culture and high standards.
• Technology: Modern stack including Vue 3, Python, GCP, Kubernetes, and real-time data systems.
• Visibility: Direct influence on product direction and exposure to cross-functional leadership.

Company Description

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.