Software Engineer

About the project

We're looking for a Mid-level Software Engineer to join the development team behind our in-house Transport Management System (TMS). The TMS is the operational backbone of Egala: dispatchers plan trucks, trailers and drivers on it, drivers use its mobile app on the road, and finance invoices customers and pays drivers from the data it holds. It is a mature, actively developed product – a Python/Django backend, a React frontend, a Flutter driver app and a long list of integrations with telematics, routing, ferry and accounting providers, shipped to production roughly every week.

This is a full-time, on-site role in our office in Żerniki near Poznań, with the option of occasional remote work when the need arises. We offer an employment contract, a B2B contract is open to negotiation if needed. You will own features end to end: from a ticket, through data model, API and UI, to tests, release notes. If you write solid Python and JavaScript, are comfortable reading a large codebase you did not write, and like the idea that a routing bug shows up as a truck on the wrong side of a border, we'd love to meet you.

This is how we organize our work

This is how we work

• in house
• you focus on a single project at a time
• you focus on product development
• you focus on code maintenance

Your responsibilities

• Build features end to end – take a ticket from the backlog (e.g. a new planning screen, an invoicing rule, a driver-app flow) through Django models and migrations, REST endpoints, React/MobX UI, tests and changelog.
• Integrate external systems – connect and maintain integrations with telematics providers, routing and map services, ferry and tunnel operators, tachograph data (DDD files), Microsoft 365 and accounting software over REST, SFTP and webhooks.
• Keep production healthy – pick up Sentry errors and user-reported incidents, reproduce them on a staging copy of production data, fix the root cause and prevent regressions.
• Care about performance – the system runs on a large PostgreSQL database; you will profile slow queries, design indexes, move work to Celery background tasks and keep screens fast.
• Write and maintain tests – Django unit tests for backend logic and Cypress end-to-end tests for user flows are part of every change, not an afterthought.
• Review and be reviewed – participate in merge-request reviews on GitLab, follow and improve team conventions and help keep the codebase coherent as it grows.
• Clarify before you build – ask questions when a ticket is unclear, occasionally directly with the dispatchers or finance staff who will use the feature; propose simpler solutions when the request can be met with less.
• Modernise responsibly – help with the gradual upgrades of the stack (Python, Django, React, TypeScript adoption) without stopping feature delivery.
• Communicate and stay Agile – priorities change; give short, regular updates on progress and blockers and re-plan when needed.

Our requirements

• 3–5 years of professional software development experience, with Python and Django used in a production system.
• Solid relational database skills – PostgreSQL preferred: data modelling, writing and reading non-trivial SQL, understanding query plans and indexes, safe schema migrations on live data.
• Practical frontend experience with React and a state-management library (MobX, Redux or similar), modern JavaScript.
• Experience integrating third-party APIs – REST and ideally SOAP; authentication flows (OAuth2, bearer tokens, API keys); retries and error handling for systems you do not control.
• Familiarity with asynchronous and scheduled work – Celery or an equivalent task queue; understanding what should and should not run inside a web request.
• Comfortable with Docker, Git and a CI pipeline (GitLab CI or similar) as daily tools; able to debug a failing pipeline on your own.
• A testing habit – unit tests for logic, end-to-end tests for flows; you know what to test and what not to.
• Ability to navigate and improve a large existing codebase – reading before writing, small focused merge requests, no unnecessary rewrites.
• Good English (B2/C1) – the codebase, tickets, reviews and part of the team communication are in English; Polish is used day to day in the office.
• Clear communication, verbal and written – you can explain a technical trade-off to a non-technical colleague and keep status updates short, regular and honest.
• Ownership and a proactive mindset – you notice problems before users report them and propose fixes rather than waiting for a ticket.

Optional

• Experience in transport, logistics or fleet-management software (TMS, telematics, route planning, tachograph/driving-time regulations).
• Maps and geo work – Leaflet or similar, routing/geocoding APIs (PTV, Google, HERE), polylines, time zones, distance and toll calculation.
• Performance and observability tooling – Sentry, New Relic, PostgreSQL EXPLAIN, Celery monitoring (Flower).
• Experience upgrading long-lived Django/React applications across major versions.
• Dutch language, or experience working with a Dutch organisation.
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field.

What we offer

• Stable employment in an international company with 3000 employees located around the Europe.
• We are awarded with the title of the Great Place To Work Poland certificate.
• Grow with us through individual training programs, and language courses.
• Experience a one-of-a-kind friendly and supportive atmosphere and working conditions.
• Join our family-events and celebrations for employees.
• Share knowledge in our diverse and international teams.
• Give us regular feedback via surveys and internal meetings.
• Start your Egala experience with a chat over lunch with our CEO – Sjef Boekestijn.
• Stay in good shape with the help of our internal gym, football field and squash courts.
• Comprehensive coverage of Private Medical Care and Life Insurance for you and your loved ones.
• Transportation to work - to make your commute more convenient, by providing transportation to work from Rondo Rataje.
• My Benefit Program – choose the benefits according to your needs among many various options available.
• We care for your employee’s journey, that is why we welcome you with a special welcome gift, we provide you with a buddy – colleague who will make sure you feel well in our office.

Benefits

• prezent powitalny
• certyfikat Great Place to Work
• Inclusive Workplace
• life insurance
• integration events
• parking space for employees
• birthday celebration
• employee referral program
• charity initiatives
• family picnics

Our stack at a glance

• Backend – Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Celery with RabbitMQ and Redis, a WebSocket service (ASGI) for live updates, Gunicorn/gevent, Sentry and New Relic.
• Frontend – React, MobX and mobx-spine models, JavaScript, Semantic UI and styled-components, Leaflet maps.
• Mobile – TARA driver app in Flutter; several small native Android (Kotlin) tools such as the panic button and fleet-device managers.
• Integrations – many third-party systems: telematics, routing/toll calculation, ferries and Eurotunnel, tachograph downloads, Microsoft Graph, Exact Online, Firebase push, SFTP exchanges, AI-assisted order intake and receipt verification.
• Tooling – Docker Compose for the whole environment, GitLab CI with per-branch instant staging environments, Cypress (several hundred end-to-end specs).
• Scale – about 250k lines of backend code, 200k lines of frontend code, 100+ screens, releases roughly every week.

Egala

Founded in 1994, Boekestijn has grown from a family business into a trusted name in European trucking: built on trust, care, and a drive to make better. Egala by Boekestijn is the next step in that journey: a dedicated brand focused on delivering Unlimited Trucking Capacity.

Egala is the next chapter of our journey in European trucking. Born from our family values of trust and care, Egala gives our operations a stronger identity, dedicated to providing reliable, large-scale trucking solutions for customers, colleagues, and partners alike.

This is how we work