Software Engineer

OVRSEA is a next-generation multimodal freight forwarder committed to simplifying & optimizing international freight management through technology. OVRSEA provides its clients with industry expertise and high end-to-end visibility to meet their needs on sea, air, road and rail over all transport stages, from loading to customs declarations.

Founded in 2017, OVRSEA currently supports +700 clients from its offices in Paris, New York, Miami, Barcelona & Milano.

OVRSEA is growing at a tremendous pace. With already 160 employees globally, they are continuing their growth in 2023 hiring +100 people!

Who are we ?

💡 Our mission

OVRSEA is a next-generation multimodal freight forwarder committed to simplifying & optimizing international freight management through technology. OVRSEA provides its clients with industry expertise and high end-to-end visibility to meet their needs on sea, air, road and rail over all transport stages, from loading to customs declarations.

Founded in 2017, OVRSEA currently supports +700 clients from its offices in Paris, New York, Barcelona, Milano and has doubled its workforce in 2022.

⭐️ Our culture

One of OVRSEA's great strengths is its ability to create a healthy environment in which team members feel fulfilled and comfortable. Five values structure our culture, which are :

- Pedagogy : many of the tech members have learned to code at OVRSEA. We foster a teaching culture so that all members can keep learning no matter how experienced they are.

- Caring : we strive to create a humane environment where people feel at ease while being able to continuously grow,

- Excellence : we give much importance to writing clean code and development best practices,

- Questioning : we’re always looking for ways to improve our code, infrastructure and product vision,

- Reliability : we are all committed to doing things right

This strong culture has been appreciated by everyone at Ovrsea over time. In fact, some former employees have left the company to pursue their dreams, such as becoming a firefighter or a movie director. Interestingly, some former interns have event returned to the company for full-time positions or apprenticeships!

Above all, we want to recruit people who are aligned with these values and who are committed to living them on a daily basis.

💻 The tech team

The tech team develops two main products: Hermes, to allow customers to order and track their shipments, and Atlas, to let Ovrsea organise them.

Most work is focused on Atlas: it is a revolutionary Transport Management System, which allows us to organise all types of shipments worldwide. Since it is an internal product, it allows us to iterate much faster (10 to 20 deployments per day), to test many things and to directly see our work impact.

The team is composed of 4 squads of 2 to 4 Software Engineers + 1 Product Manager. Each squad is focused on a business topic: automatic pricing, sales activation, stock vision...

You can get more information on our team 👉 here and 👉 here!

What is a Software Engineer at OVRSEA ?

Following a geographical mobility of a member of our team, we are looking for a Software Engineer to take over!

💪 Responsibilities

- Deliver features in autonomy with high-quality standards

- Challenge product specifications if needed

- Actively participate in the team processes (weekly tech meeting, PR reviews, pair-programming...)

💡 Some of our current topics

⚙️ Engineering

- Improving DX through the Design System and splitting the monolith into different Bounded Contexts

- Increasing team confidence by improving our use of Jest, ESLint, Cypress or Storybook for example

- Implementing DORA metrics to monitor our delivery performance and to guide our improvement efforts

- Improving the skills of every team member on more and more advanced craft topics (hexagonal architecture, DDD, inversion of control...)

🚢 Business

- Shipment orchestration: optimizing shipments handling by automating as much as possible operational work

- Pricing automation: giving a quote to our customers as fast as possible

- Stock vision: providing a system to our customers to monitor their goods across the world. This project is at the crossroads of Software Engineering and Machine Learning

🤝 What you'll get in this job

- This is the key moment to join one of the French Tech companies in hyper-growth 🐓. You’ll take part in an incredible humane and entrepreneurial adventure!

- The opportunity to work on a state-of-the-art stack: Serverless, Typescript, React, GraphQL, etc.

- You’ll work in a brick & mortar sector: we transport goods all over the world

- You will evolve within a small, technophile and demanding team. We also work with a freelancer who coaches us on craft topics

- Nice office close to the Sacré-Coeur (with a view!) and a flexible remote policy

- A competitive salary (top 25% of the French Tech wages)

🌟 Desired profile : 

Your technical skills :

- You have at least 1 year experience as a Software Engineer

- A good knowledge of our stack (Typescript, React, Node)

Your human qualities :

- Benevolent, you want to make people grow

- Pedagogue, to transmit your knowledge to others

- Humble, to quickly adapt to an ever-evolving tech world as well as to assimilate the specificities of the transport world

- Rigorous and demanding, with others as well as with yourself, you are committed to doing things right

- Motivated by impact and result

Nice to have :

- Knowledge of a development framework (Agile, Kanban, etc.)

- Knowledge of craft concepts (DDD, hexagonal architecture...)

🤔 Still not convinced ?

To find out more about our organisation and tech culture, discover our different contents :

- Our Medium

- Our stack

You are planning to join us ? Don't hesitate anymore and apply to join the crazy OVRSEA adventure ! ✈️

Our recruitment process

At Ovrsea, we are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and to fostering diversity within our teams !