About the Role
This is a contract-to-hire position for a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) who will own business problems from discovery through production. The FDE will collaborate with various teams to understand operational challenges, design and build scalable solutions, and measure their impact across the logistics platform. This role offers high autonomy and focuses on business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Partner directly with Operations, Product, Customer Success, Implementation, and Engineering teams to solve complex business problems.
- Own initiatives from discovery through production, including solution design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Translate operational workflows into scalable software solutions.
- Build and maintain end-to-end logistics integrations (WMS, OMS, TMS, LMS).
- Develop and support Shopify integrations and iPaaS connectivity.
- Expand our in-house WMS fulfillment platform.
- Design scalable event-driven systems supporting orders, inventory, warehouse events, billing, and fulfillment automation.
- Develop EDI integrations supporting wholesale, retail, freight, and omnichannel customers.
- Build ERP integrations supporting financial synchronization, reconciliation, and operational reporting.
- Enhance billing capabilities including payment processing, auto-recharge, billing rules, and charge validation.
- Develop labor management capabilities including productivity metrics, forecasting, workforce planning, and operational reporting.
- Improve inventory visibility through enhanced traceability, lot control, expiration management, and warehouse analytics.
- Design highly reliable asynchronous processing using Celery and distributed task queues.
- Partner with QA and Infrastructure to improve CI/CD pipelines, observability, monitoring, resilience, and deployment automation.
- Use AI engineering tools (GitHub Copilot, Codex, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) to accelerate software delivery and improve engineering effectiveness.
- Participate in customer implementations, technical discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and operational design discussions when needed.
- Work across the entire platform rather than owning a single service or component.
- Drive technical decisions that improve customer experience and operational efficiency.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent experience demonstrating exceptional ownership, independent delivery, and the ability to rapidly learn new technologies and business domains.
- Strong Python and Django experience, including Django REST Framework.
- Strong PostgreSQL experience, including schema design and performance optimization.
- Experience designing distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
- Experience building REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth2 integrations, and asynchronous messaging systems.
- Experience working with AWS (EKS, Kubernetes, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, etc.).
- Experience with Celery or comparable asynchronous processing frameworks.
- Understanding of warehouse operations including receiving, put-away, replenishment, picking, packing, shipping, and inventory management.
- Experience integrating with enterprise business systems including WMS, OMS, ERP, TMS, or LMS platforms.
- Experience working directly with cross-functional stakeholders to define technical solutions.
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and systems thinking skills.
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and business audiences.
- Comfortable operating with incomplete requirements and evolving priorities.
Skills
- Software development
- Python
- django
- EDI
- logistics
- Shopify
- BigCommerce
- netsuite
- Own business outcomes - not simply implementation.
- Lead technical discovery before development begins.
- Influence architecture across multiple products and domains.
- Continuously improve engineering quality, observability, documentation, and operational excellence.
- Identify opportunities for automation before someone asks.
- Champion AI-assisted development workflows across the engineering organization.
- Help shape technical strategy alongside engineering leadership.
- Mentor engineers through ownership, design thinking, and technical leadership
Location
- Dallas, TX
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Contract to Hire
Experience Level
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
Salary/Compensations
- $45.00 - $70.00/hr
Benefits
- Medical, dental & vision
- Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
- 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
- Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
- Short and long-term disability
- Health Spending Account (HSA)
- Transportation benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
About the Company
- Client is looking to hire a Software Engineer for a 6 month contract to hire.
- The product is a technology-first third-party logistics (3PL) provider on a mission to empower exceptional customer experiences through seamless, end-to-end fulfillment.
- Backed by WSI's 60 years of supply chain expertise, Kase combines enterprise logistics reach with modern cloud-native software to power fulfillment for leading e-commerce brands across DTC, wholesale, retail, and omnichannel commerce.
- Our platform spans warehouse management, order orchestration, billing, integrations, inventory visibility, and AI-driven operational workflows—all built by a collaborative engineering team focused on solving real customer problems.
- Learn more at 3PL Fulfillment for Ecommerce Brands | 3PL Fulfillment Company
- We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.
- We’re a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We’re strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.
Equal Opportunity
- The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
- San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
- Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.
