Build the programs to help Flexport grow
The Opportunity:
The service catalog is the system that manages all logistic services available to help our customers move goods globally. Every sales transaction between Flexport and our customers involves searching the service catalog for available services, inventory, and pricing information.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to develop products at the forefront of reshaping the entire logistics & supply chain industries. You’ll work alongside self-starters interested in solving real-world problems and streamlining the inefficiencies in the complex global trade industry. You’ll have the opportunity to reshape an industry by creating the new operating system for global trade.
You Will:
Work closely with product managers, designers, business partners to distill complex business problems into elegant technical solutions.
Design and implement systems that represent the real-world intricacies of logistics entities, such as services, pricing, quotes, and order.
Ensure our products maintain a high-quality bar. We believe in anticipating issues by obsessing over metrics and applying key learnings from post-mortems to all our services.
Onboard and mentor engineers. We believe in structured onboarding and mentoring processes to ensure a smooth transition into the team and then continued development on the team.
Tackle difficult and subtle system-level issues, emphasizing simplicity and long-lasting designs. As we extract services out of the monolith, we take pride in untangling legacy code and re-building with composability in mind.
Geek out about marketplaces, prices, quotes, and logistics. (We do this often.)
You Will Build:
A highly performant search engine to power the service discovery experience for our marketplace.
Modeling and building systems to configure the complex services that we sell, their inventory, and their pricing.
Products to manage the lifecycle of services, pricing, and inventory.
Integrations with partner systems to get latest services, inventory, and pricing information.
You Should Have:
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent professional experience
5+ years of experience writing software with an emphasis on backend business logic and domain modeling.
1+ years of experience leading projects from ideas through technical design and implementation.
Demonstrated ability to navigate complex business problems requiring cross-team collaboration
The ability to convey technical ideas in common terms to business partners, product managers, designers and engineers alike.
A desire to develop your tooling repertoire. We are tech-agnostic regarding candidate background, but our platform is built with Java/Kotlin, React, Ruby.
A bias for action. When you see a problem, you solve it.
Non-optional: An aptitude for learning quickly.
Our Technology Stack
Our continuous releases are integrated with Buildkite and Github. On the frontend, we create our views with React, manage the flow of data with GraphQL, and test our application with Jest. On the backend, we build backend services in Kotlin and Ruby. Our data is persisted in Postgres and MongoDB. Our stack is hosted on AWS using Kubernetes.
Engineering Culture and Values
Check out our Key Values profile.
About Flexport
At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make it easy and accessible for everyone. We’re shaping the future of a $8.6T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year.
The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. At a valuation of $8 billion, we’re experiencing record growth and are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us.
Worried about not having any logistics experience?
Don’t be! Our mission is to make global trade easy for everyone. That’s why it’s important to bring people from diverse backgrounds and experiences together with our industry veterans to help move the global logistics industry forward.
We know this industry is complex. That’s why we invest in education starting day one with Flexport Academy, a one week intensive onboarding program designed specifically to set every new Flexport employee up for success.
At Flexport, our ability to fulfill our mission of making global trade easy for everyone relies on having a diverse, dedicated and engaged workforce. That is why Flexport is committed to creating and nurturing an environment where anyone can be their authentic self. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, health status, marital and family status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range displayed, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and / or training.
The US base salary range for this full-time position: (exclusive of bonus, equity and benefits.) $183,273 — $229,100 USD
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