Burq is transforming commerce by simplifying delivery from port to doorstep through its innovative platform, Burq Intelligence. Founded with the mission to make delivery seamless and turnkey, Burq is rapidly growing and recognized as one of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators and a 2025 Inc. Magazine Power Partner. Supported by top Silicon Valley investors, including Village Global, Burq combines global scale with a close-knit team environment where every individual can make a significant impact. Joining Burq means working on meaningful challenges and accelerating your career growth in a fast-paced, mission-driven company.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end design, development, and delivery of complex features across backend services and web applications.
- Build and maintain highly reliable, secure REST APIs and webhooks for enterprise customer integrations, ensuring clear and thorough documentation.
- Lead technical scoping and execution of integrations, collaborating closely with Product, Customer Success, and engineering teams.
- Use data and customer feedback to continuously enhance the Burq Dashboard, enabling operators to manage deliveries efficiently and without friction.
- Take full ownership of production quality, including monitoring, incident response, root cause analysis, and preventing recurring issues.
- Elevate team standards through code reviews, technical design contributions, mentoring, and improving engineering, security, and design practices.
- Incorporate AI tools daily to accelerate development, testing, and debugging processes, solving complex problems independently.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 4 years of professional software engineering experience with a proven track record of shipping and owning production systems.
- Strong proficiency in Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript for backend development.
- Experience building web applications using React or similar modern frontend frameworks.
- Solid expertise in designing and developing REST APIs and microservices architectures.
- Comfortable working with both SQL and NoSQL databases and deploying on AWS infrastructure.
- Experience integrating third-party systems and APIs, including handling webhooks, authentication, and graceful failure management.
- Demonstrated ownership mindset: ability to take ambiguous problems through to completion, follow through proactively, and be accountable for outcomes.
- AI-native: proficient in using AI tools such as Claude and Unblocked as an integral part of daily workflow and quick to adopt new technologies.
- Excellent communication skills, able to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including customers.
Preferred Qualifications and Benefits
- Experience in delivery, logistics, or marketplace platforms is a plus.
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools like Temporal or event-driven systems such as Kafka.
- Knowledge of enterprise integration and security protocols, including SSO, IP allow listing, and audit logging.
Burq invests in its employees by offering comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance, reimbursement for educational courses, and generous time off to support work-life balance and professional growth.
This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a cutting-edge logistics platform while working alongside a world-class team dedicated to innovation and impact.