At Cavallo, innovation is at the heart of everything we do. Our commitment to creating cutting-edge software solutions for the distribution industry has earned us a reputation as a leader, and our talented Development Team is key to this success. We’re expanding and seeking a highly skilled developer to help us continue to push boundaries.
As a developer at Cavallo, you’ll build applications that balance scalability and user experience, contributing to features our customers use every day. You’ll be a contributor to a collaborative and dynamic team, using your analytical skills and creative thinking to drive growth and innovation.
A typical day would include:
- Developing and maintaining features to support evolving business needs and product requirements, ensuring solutions balance scalability and user experience.
- Participating in peer code reviews as part of our pull request process, helping ensure quality and knowledge sharing across the team.
- Working within an agile team, contributing to iterative planning, development, and review cycles.
- Writing well-structured, testable code with clear documentation.
- Participating in a rotating on-call schedule (roughly one week out of eight) as part of our shared ownership model to help maintain reliability, including blameless postmortems and flexible comp-time.
This may be the job for you if:
- You have 2–5 years of professional software development experience and are ready to contribute broadly across the development lifecycle.
- You have a strong foundation in core programming fundamentals and at least one high-level language such as Python or JavaScript/TypeScript, along with familiarity in SQL.
- You are familiar with the software development life cycle and how code moves from design to production.
- You hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or have equivalent experience.
- You prioritize efficiency, user experience, and quality in your work.
- You are passionate about tackling complex challenges and driven to deliver innovative solutions.
- You are self-motivated, continuously improving, and stay current with industry trends and practices through your own curiosity and initiative.
- You bring a collaborative spirit and enjoy working in a team that values learning, mentorship, and shared growth.
Extra qualifications to help you stand out:
- You have experience with DevOps practices (IaC, CI/CD, k8s).
- You have a background building software products (SaaS experience a plus).
- You have experience improving reliability and monitoring in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- You have experience configuring or working with LLM-based agents (e.g., LangChain, semantic kernel, custom tools).
Our Stack:
- Front End: React and Zustand
- Services: FastAPI and Temporal
- Data: Postgres (OLTP) and Clickhouse (OLAP)
- DevOps: Github Actions, Kubernetes, and Terraform
- Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, and Open Telemetry
- Hosting: AWS (EKS, CloudFront, etc.)
Why should you apply?
- Innovation-Driven Culture: Work on impactful projects that challenge the industry’s status quo.
- Collaborative Team Environment: Engage with colleagues who are eager to share insights and learn together.
- Continuous Growth & Career Progression: Our developer track provides clear levels (Developer I–IV and beyond), with opportunities to advance into Tech Lead or Architect roles as you grow your expertise and influence.
- Meaningful Work: Create software solutions that drive real value for our customers.
Key Benefits:
- Competitive Salary Package
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and STD Insurance
- 4% 401(k) Employer Match
- Generous PTO and Work/Life Synergy
- Learning and Career Development Opportunities
About Cavallo
Cavallo is at the forefront of developing cutting-edge profit technologies for product-centric brands and wholesale distributors. . We’re seeking the self-motivated, the hard-working, the problem solvers, and the dedicated to join our team of experts. We're focused on helping businesses grow, expand, or reshape how they do things by approaching each and every problem with energy, creativity, and confidence. Ingenuity, adaptation, and evolution are at the core for us at Cavallo.
Our Grand Rapids-based headquarters is focused on helping change the way organizations do business through our software products, customizations, expertise, and support. Our enterprise software solutions work with leading business applications, including multiple leading ERP platforms, and integrate with a wide range of apps and other technologies. Cavallo has been in the business of helping manufacturing and distribution companies increase productivity and efficiency since 2003. We got our start when a small business owner tasked a software developer with transforming a pile of clipboards and legal pads into a streamlined, efficient inventory management system. We have been sharing ideas and innovating ever since.
Join Cavallo and help shape the next generation of data-driven enterprise solutions. If you are a visionary leader passionate about innovation, execution, and scaling world-class products, we’d love to hear from you!
