Portcast7mo ago

Senior Full Stack Engineer

SingaporeFull-Timesenior

EngineeringOtherFullstack Developer

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Overview

Portcast is a venture-backed, Singapore-based logistics technology startup building a real-time transportation visibility platform for global supply chains. We help shippers, manufacturers, and logistics service providers turn data into decisions — and decisions into measurable business impact.

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Our platform goes beyond visibility. Portcast enables action at scale by surfacing the right risks early, helping teams prevent detention and demurrage, accelerate exception management, and close invoices faster with built-in evidence. We turn visibility into outcomes: reduced costs, improved operational control, and more predictable supply chains.

Founded in 2018 and backed by leading technology investors, we are building for an industry at a critical inflection point of digital transformation. Our team of software engineers, data scientists, and logistics experts is on a mission to make supply chains not just visible, but decisively actionable — end to end.

Design, build and maintain APIs, services and systems and debug production issues across multiple levels of the stack.

Collaborate closely with our Business, Product and Data Science teams to understand and solve customer pain points at scale.

Design, Develop, Implement and Deploy enterprise level, high availability web application platforms, with support from the design team at Portcast.

Create a technology infrastructure that functions well at scale. You will design and improve the system architecture.

Keep up to date on the latest software development technologies and methodologies to help ensure the Portcast remains technically at the forefront of its field.

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience in the field.

Work Experience: Minimum 5+ years of experience in a technical role designing, developing and releasing technical solutions.

1st principals thinker: You are good at problem solving. You break complex problems into smaller logical pieces. You come up with multiple innovative solutions and then logically select the best course. Your decisions are backed by sound reasoning and you exhibit good judgment.

System Architecture: You understand how parts of a system fit together and have a strong background in building scalable products or systems. You are comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces/data sources and possess meticulous attention to detail. You are quick to generate ideas and give suggestions on how to improve the tech stack and feature developments.

Team Player: You have experience working in a diverse, dynamic and cross-cultural team. This role is an opportunity to drive engineering excellence within the team and participate in key architectural discussions. You are a hands-on goal-orientated engineer who works according to milestones and software guidelines, following agile principles.

Empathetic Communicator: You can communicate nuanced ideas clearly, from real-time remote brainstorming to explaining a technical decision in writing. You may be opinionated, but in disagreements, you engage thoughtfully with other perspectives and can compromise when needed.

Tech Stack: Ideally you are proficient with Python-based backend programming, web frameworks like Flask, Amazon Web Services. You are able to design RESTful APIs and are aware of best practices. Experience with Docker, Git, Elasticsearch, Spark, CI/CD is a plus. However, if you have worked on other tech stacks in the past and are confident on picking up a new tech stack, please go ahead and apply.

You’ve been an early engineering hire at a startup who has built a technical product from scratch up to scale. We’d love to hear your learnings from doing that.

Globally distributed, remote-first flexibility: Work with a fully distributed team across Asia and Europe, built on trust, accountability, and collaboration. Our diversity of perspectives fuels innovation and keeps us curious.

Tech-first team: You’ll work with like-minded individuals who share a passion for solving difficult problems using technology. The engineering team is at the core of what we do.

Accelerated growth: Compress the learning curve in a couple of years by owning the web app from day one as your own baby. We are building our company to be the next B2B market leader in predictive global supply chains and you’ll be a major part of our story.

Impact you can see: With a lean structure, your work is effective from the start. You’ll see the results of your ideas and decisions directly moving the business forward.

Curiosity: We stay hungry to learn and explore.

Ownership: We act like founders and take responsibility.

Raising the bar: We aim higher, never settling for “good enough.”

Effective: We focus on impact and outcomes that matter.