Backend Engineer

The Role

Work directly with the CEO to build a better UI for maritime operations from scratch.

You will have the opportunity to design and build the interface primitives that lay the foundation for maritime software for the next ten years. This is the right job if you like building things that have never existed before, are excited by new challenges and understand that products live and die on the user experience.

As a Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance web applications that integrate LLM capabilities.

You will work with a modern stack, primarily using TypeScript with Node.js and Next.js, as well as some React applications.

Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring our applications are scalable, efficient, and deliver exceptional user experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable full stack applications using TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, and React.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Integrate LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic) into applications, ensuring optimal performance and user experience particularly with the streaming nature of LLM outputs.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues across the full stack.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance and code reviews.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience as a Frontend Engineer, with a focus on TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, and React.
• Proven experience working with LLMs and integrating them into web applications.
• Strong understanding of web development principles and best practices.
• Proficiency with version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure) is a plus.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines including Github Actions is a plus.

What next steps look like:

If successful, you will help decide the future of Greywing, as well as lay the roadmap for all future development of the interface. You will be aided in making key decisions about the stack, development process and guiding principles.

Some of the things we've done so far:

• Build an easy to use routing engine for vessels
• Design intelligence software to compress hundreds of points of information (flights, agencies, fuel, restrictions) into quick decisions.

F or a n illustrative example, check out https://grey-wing.com.

Your core focus will be the deployment, integration and iteration of our LLM Maritime Copilot “Proteus” into Customers’ 3rd Party applications.

Who are we?

Greywing is a maritime intelligence tool that enables ship managers to conduct operations and save thou sands of dollars by providing actionable insight into the decisions they make . Simply put, we process hundreds of thousands of points of information about a vessel to tell them where it should go and what it should do.

We are backed by the people at Y Combinator, Instacart and Flexport. We work with the world's largest ship managers and operators to make the global shipping network more efficient while protecting the people who make sure our world runs smoothly.

In the past year, we've conducted charter flight operations for vessels calling at Singapore, helped evacuate wounded crew that would not have been possible otherwise, and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in wasted fuel and resources.

For a deeper technical overview of our software, you can read our Hacker News Launch.

For th e insatiably curious, you may find more information on our blog or our writing.

The Team

Our CEO is a former Royal Marine Commando that has built a business in maritime from nothing to 4 million in turnover.

Our Stack

Backend: NodeJ S, Express, Postgres , Redis

How to apply

If you're interested, plea se reach out to jointheteam[at]grey-wing.com with a short Loom video answering the following questions (or any you'd like):

1. What should w e know about you? Background, capabilities, what you think your strengths are.
2. What interests you about us?
3. Tell us a little about the most memorable project you've worked on.
   • What were the hardest parts?
   • What were the best moments?
   • Walk us through what you have built on the Loom - we’d love to see it!
4. Have you done any work with LLM’s? Whether you have or not let us know how you think about them.

Please only apply if you are based in Asia Pacific timezones.