Staff Software Engineer
Toro TMS
About the role
About Toro TMS
We are Toro TMS, a growth-stage startup working to build the modern operating system for trucking. Our focus is squarely on building the best-in-class, end-to-end transportation management software (TMS) for bulk commodity haulers.
About the role
We are growing our fully remote Engineering team and looking for an entrepreneurial, product-minded Staff Software Engineer to join our team. The right person will be driven, curious, and have a builder’s mentality. Joining Toro TMS means becoming a partner in solving interesting, challenging problems for our users. This person will work alongside a team of exceptionally experienced engineers (our current engineers have an average of 10+ years of experience and come from best practice companies like Google, Appfolio, Procore, and Lattice). This is a full-time role.
How we work:
We are fanatical about understanding our domain and our users and solving their problems.
We prioritize cross-functional collaboration with our product management and UX counterparts.
We are highly productive. We get a lot done.
We are scrappy but not hacky. We bias towards action in the absence of perfect information. We ship small, we ship fast, and we learn as quickly as possible.
We strike an appropriate balance between quality and velocity, making thoughtful trade offs with a good understanding of the consequences of our choices.
We proactively identify what needs to be done and do it, seeking clarification and more information when necessary. We do not wait to be told what to do.
We see work through to completion while minimizing delays and distractions. We limit the amount of work-in-progress in favor of delivering tasks more efficiently with less context switching.
We align our efforts to the goals and priorities of the team and the needs of the business, avoiding “Cowboy Coder” mentality, vanity projects, and other work that does not deliver meaningful value for our customers and the business.
We actively engage in team discussions, bringing ideas, insights, and thoughtful questions that support our goal of building a best-in-class product.
We eagerly jump in when needed to support colleagues across all areas of the business, including our engineering peers. We favor high bandwidth communication and regularly use pair programming to accelerate delivery, context sharing, and decision making.
We value bringing discussions to a decision. We endeavor to strike an effective balance between divergent brainstorming and outcome-focused discussions. We allow space for others to share ideas.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to meet you.
Ideal candidates should have:
Familiarity with with both Ruby on Rails and React
Experience working in a remote-first environment
5+ years of experience building and shipping web-based software products
Ability and desire to build fast and ship features on a daily / weekly basis
Strong communication skills
Ability to take direction and feedback from senior team members
Strong desire to learn about the trucking industry, meet with customers, learn about their businesses and workflows
Empathy for users and teammates
Located in the United States
Benefits:
Unlimited paid time off
Company covered Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance (Via Aetna and Metlife)
Parental leave (12 weeks for primary caregiver, 6 weeks for non-primary caregiver)
401(k) plan managed by Empower
Work from home office stipend; desks, chairs, monitors, whatever you need
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future. This includes OPT, STEM OPT, F-1, H1B, etc
Toro TMS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Toro TMS provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, gender (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, language, ancestry, genetic information, veteran and/or military status or any other group status protected by federal or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation for the application and/or interview process, please notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship features for Toro TMS's transportation management software.
- Collaborate with product management, UX, engineering, and customers to understand needs and workflows.
- Take ownership of work from identifying needs through delivery.
- Balance product quality and delivery speed while making thoughtful technical tradeoffs.
- Contribute to engineering discussions and support colleagues across the business.
Qualifications
- At least 5 years of experience building and shipping web-based software products.
- Familiarity with Ruby on Rails and React.
- Experience working in a remote-first environment.
- Ability and desire to build quickly and ship features frequently.
- Strong communication skills and ability to incorporate direction and feedback.
- Interest in learning about the trucking industry and understanding customer workflows.
- Empathy for users and teammates.
- Located in the United States and legally authorized to work without employer sponsorship.
Benefits
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Company-covered medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Parental leave of 12 weeks for primary caregivers and 6 weeks for non-primary caregivers.
- 401(k) plan managed by Empower.
- Work-from-home office stipend for equipment and furnishings.
Skills mentioned
About Toro TMS
At Toro TMS, we are on a mission to deliver technology that drives lasting improvements for the trucking industry. Our dedicated team has built an easy-to-use, modern end-to-end TMS specifically designed for bulk haulers. From load management and dispatch, to accounting and driver payroll, we provide a single software solution to help our customers move more loads.