Full-stack developer for a SaaS seafreight shipping platform wanted! (Laravel, Vue, MySQL) – bi-weekly pay – long-term [CLOSED]

Would you like to work in a remote/distributed team on a next-generation seafreight rate management and price-finding platform? We’ve been building software for the shipping industry for more than 6 years and are taking it to a next level with DuCargo. (https://ducargo.com)

Do you want to grow together and help us move towards our big ambitions?
We have offices in Alkmaar, The Netherlands, and Stockholm, Sweden, but our team will be mostly remote. We collaborate on Jira, Slack and Github, using the SCRUM methodology. We respect local holidays and you define your own hours.

Sounds interesting? Keep reading!

About you

• You are self-organized and help us organize and prioritize the project’s tasks

• You have at least 4 years relevant work experience in Agile teams and enjoy working

  that way

• You are fluent in English and can communicate your thoughts and ideas clearly

• You are reliable, proactive and you can focus on the task at hand and be able to

  meet deadlines

• You have a broad experience in developing web applications and can send us a

  descriptive portfolio and/or Github links to specific examples of earlier work

• You have great attention to detail and you always aim to deliver code to the highest

  quality standards with an eye for readability, testability and security

• You have a stable high-speed internet connection, can work from home (or your

  office / co-working space, etc.) without distractions and be available on Skype

Technical skills

• At least 5 years of PHP experience

• Laravel is your favorite PHP framework

• Vue is your preferred JS framework

• You know best practices in HTML5 and CSS3

• You know MySQL/InnoDB and comprehend complex SQL queries

• You value TDD

• You know when to use which programming paradigms and patterns (e.g. MVC, SOC,

  IOC, factory, repository, etc.)

Additional experience that will land you on the top of our list

• Experience with Git and Jira as well as SCRUM and TDD methodologies
• CI / CD implementation experience
• Experience with PQML
• Testautomation and perf-, pen-, e2e-testing
• Experience with 3NF data model schemas / data normalization - CodeIgniter and XHTML+jQuery experience
• Wordpress experience
• Lead-developer experience

“Soft” skills

• Self-starter

• Communicatively strong

• Hands-on

• Team player, collaboration brings the best results

• Flexible

• Can manage expectations

• Welcomes constructive feedback

Your average day at DuCargo

First, you check in with the team on Slack and respond to any messages that might be left for you while you were away. In the daily meeting you hear if any new issues came up, assess if you can help with them and check if there are any colleagues that need help to move on.

Then you go and check Jira and organize the day’s tasks (assigned and in progress) and check-up on progress on pending tasks. When starting something new you create a new branch and start working on the task at hand.

When you reach natural points of stability during the day you write a descriptive commit message and push your local branch, and if the task is completed you open a PR for review. This is a good time to grab a cup of coffee and review someone else’s PR for them.

We work in multi-week sprints to protect our developers from ever-changing requirements, so when a sprint is planned a developer knows what to do for the next couple of weeks. How we organize the sprints is reviewed regularly in the sprint retrospective meetings.

About DuCargo

Our product was first developed 6 years ago as a custom software platform for one of our customers. We’ve always seen opportunities to expand on the concept and in 2017 we finally partnered with our main customer and are now redeveloping the software into a generic rate management and price-finding platform. We are bootstrapped and currently growing our 3-person team to match the growing interest in the platform.

DuCargo is a platform for shippers, freight-forwarders, shipping departments of large corporations and freight-rate procurement associations to manage the rates they negotiate

with container shipment carriers as well as incorporating smart search algorithms to combine these rates into price information that can be compared and evaluated.
We have some great launching customers and there seems to be a lot of interest from the shipping industry, to replace their (mostly) Excel-based rate management with a more effective solution.

This is a remote position in a team working in different parts of the world. It doesn’t matter in which time zone you are currently based in, as long as you make it to our required daily meetings.

We have an informal working culture and we communicate in a professional but amicable way. We look for dedication and professionalism while giving you creative freedom. We all contribute to the success of our company, and all colleagues play a part in our success. We want people who believe in our product as much as we do. In return, we give you the flexibility to work in your most motivating environment.

We’d love to build a multi-cultural company with people from all over the world working on creating the best products to give our customers.

How to apply

Please rate yourself from 0 to 10 (where 10 is absolute expert, 0 is “I have no idea what this is”, 1 is no experience) for each of the mentioned skills above. (please also include the extra skills)

Tell us why you feel you are a great fit for this position and expand on any experience we haven’t mentioned but you think might be relevant. Bonus skills are highly appreciated!

Together with your message, please include the answer to the following question: "An apple costs 40 cents; a banana costs 60 cents and a grapefruit costs 80 cents. How much does a pear cost?" And also tell us: How did you arrive at that answer?

Salary

The salary is negotiable, based on your skill set and experience as well as your local economy.

For those who become employees, we plan to develop a bonus and salary increase plan based on your performance in individual projects. In the mean-time, both are based on the results of the company; DuCargo’s success will be your success as well!

We love ambition so if you want to improve your skills we provide the space to do so and grow in your field and the company.

Sounds good? Apply now!

Sincerely, Alexander

P.S. You might find some peculiar items in this post. We’re looking for people with attention to detail, so we snuck some easter-eggs in to verify you’ve read it all. :)