I'm Sven, hiring manager for the positions above.
What do we do? We are a SaaS company that provides logistics companies with automatic and optimized routes for pickup and delivery - sort of "dispatching as a service" (see https://smartlane.de).
Why is it interesting? It's a rather hard problem - we have unstructured customer data with lots of implicit knowledge in dispatcher's heads and need to find optimal routes for hundreds of trucks picking up and delivering thousands of shipments. By optimizing routes, we achieve massive fuel (and therefore CO_2) savings. We are still small (ten engineers, planning to grow this year to about 30) so everyone can shape and influence things. If you like to build stuff and quickly see the effects of your work, Smartlane is the right place for you. We work with React/Typescript on the Frontend and Python/Flask on the backend (plus AWS). Then we do lots of constraint-based linear optimization with OR Tools and other things.
What are my key convictions as a manager?
- Code can and should always be refactored/rewritten
- We are all grown-ups - There are three to four interviews, each between 30 mins or 1 hour - no coding assignment
- Results are more important than time worked. No death marches.
How do we work?
Due to Covid, we are all working remotely. Beginning in late March we can probably return to the office. I aim to have the team physically around maybe once a week. If that's not feasible, no worries, apply regardless. I'm sure we can find a solution. The only thing of relevance is to be in about the same time zone as Munich, so CET +/-2 is fine. We can also help with visas.
If you want to apply, email me (f"sven{that_weird_a_with_the_circle_around_it}{company_name}.de") your CV and maybe a couple of words about yourself and your coding convictions.