Software Engineer: Freight Network Architect

1 day ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Flexport Full time
About Flexport

Flexport is a technology company that's revolutionizing global trade by making it easier, faster, and more efficient. With a valuation of $8 billion, we're proud to have the support of top investors who believe in our mission, solutions, and people.

The Opportunity

We're seeking a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer to join our multi-disciplinary Freight Network Team. This team builds systems that are foundational to a logistics business, modeling hundreds of thousands of ports, warehouses, vessels, and other components that comprise our route graph. The successful candidate will be comfortable working alongside engineering peers across the organization, as well as partnering with product and business stakeholders to champion technical perspectives for our products.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Own the technical landscape for our Freight Network systems and ensure maintainability of the solutions created by this team.
  2. Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain systems that represent real-world intricacies of logistics entities, such as container packing plans and shipment routes.
  3. Build and launch products rapidly and incrementally, leveraging best practices around CI/CD to facilitate development.
  4. Collaborate with business partners and product managers to translate complex business problems into elegant technical solutions.
  5. Mentor and educate engineers on the team and in the larger Flexport engineering community on trends, technologies, and best practices.
  6. Ensure high standards of quality by defining and closely monitoring metrics and leveraging incident reviews to foster continuous improvement.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
  • A strong technical background, preferably as a Staff, Sr. Staff, or Principal engineer.
  • Experience architecting and building enterprise-grade systems in a complex, multi-tiered, distributed environment.
  • Experience as a technical lead for a group of engineers and a demonstrated ability to lead teams through difficult technical decisions.
  • 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.


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