Associate Engineer, Software Engineering - Hybrid

Solutions driven success.

XPO is a top ten global provider of transportation services, with a highly integrated network of people, technology and physical assets. At XPO Logistics, we look for employees who like a challenge and can communicate effectively in all situations. We want to leverage your skills and years of experience to drive positive results while ensuring a bright future for yourself and XPO. If you're looking for a growth opportunity, join us at XPO.

As the Associate Engineer, Software Engineering, you'll apply basic technical, mathematical, and scientific techniques and knowledge to develop new software components, and modifications to and support of existing production software. You will evaluate software from other sources and designs and implements software components that address specific XPO Logistics business requirements, resulting in systems that achieve quantifiable measures of performance, quality, affordability, maintainability, and simplicity. We want to leverage your skills and years of experience to drive positive results while ensuring a bright future for yourself and XPO. On our team, you'll have the support to excel at work, and the resources to build a career you can be proud of.

Pay, benefits and more.

We are eager to attract the best, so we offer competitive compensation and a generous benefits package, including full health insurance (medical, dental and vision), 401(k), life insurance, disability and more.

What you'll do on a typical day:

• Design new software by applying techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical research and interpretation that satisfies the objectives stated in business requirements
• Develop new software using documented process and logic patterns, programming language constructs, data storage methods, and operating environment interfaces that effectively satisfy business requirements. Deploy and implement fully tested software solutions
• Participate in developing appropriate programs and systems documentation according to established department standards. Follow industry best practices, techniques and XPO Logistics standardized processes that deliver improved software solutions
• Evaluate the proper functioning and performance of software components using repeatable, reproducible, and reportable software testing methodologies. Install and upgrade software development tools
• Provide 24/7 on-call rotational support of software

What you need to succeed at XPO:

At a minimum, you'll need:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent related work or military experience

It'd be great if you also have:

• 1 year of experience of working in enterprise software development environment using C# or Java

• 3 years of experience in software solutions development preferably in medium to large corporate environments or commercial software companies
• Knowledge of rapid programming, agile development, software patterning, and refactoring techniques.
• Knowledge of Open Source projects
• Knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of common programming languages (C, C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic)
• Knowledge of SQL and relational databases (DB2/UDB, Oracle, MySQL).
• Knowledge of Unix, Java, and Windows architecture and programming interfaces
• Knowledge of Xamarin, Android
• Knowledge of the industry standard IDEs - Eclipse, Visual Studio - for Unix, Java, and Windows.
• Knowledge of data marshalling, data transformation, and data representation technologies (Single-byte characters, Multi-byte characters, XML, Stylesheets).
• Knowledge of process communication techniques (Shared memory, message queues, Semaphores, mutexes)
• Knowledge of concurrent processing models, constructs, and techniques (threaded processes, thread synchronization, apartments, error recovery).

Be part of something big.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, disability, veteran or other protected status.

All applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment may be required to take and pass a pre-employment drug test.

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