Software Engineer II

As a Software Engineer II on the Orders and Planning Team at C.H. Robinson, you will use your passion for technology to develop and support our custom enterprise-level software. In this role, you will collaborate with Software Engineering Managers, Engineering Product Managers, Software Engineers, and Support Developers to design, code, and test industry-leading solutions that delight our customers. You evaluate requirements, estimate tasks, manage risks, and implement software that meets performance, quality, business and security objectives. You contribute to our engineering excellence by writing code, driving quality, and collaborating with other engineers to continuously improve our process and culture.

C.H. Robinson recognizes the importance of workplace flexibility. We are committed to providing a remote-friendly work environment, both now and in the future. Our global technology teams will continue to have the flexibility that enables you to work where you are most effective, whether that be remote or in the office.

Responsibilities:

• Develop software and design solutions independently to satisfy customer requirements that considers performance and availability
• Partner with engineering product managers and principal software engineers to translate requirements into detailed designs
• Increase code quality through code reviews and writing unit, integration, and acceptance tests
• Optimize, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability while ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment
• Tune performance and resolve availability issues of product or service and its dependencies in production
• Develop and maintain thorough technical documentation for features
• Write code using secure programming patterns and by finding, fixing, and enhancing security in existing applications
• Estimate software development effort including identifying dependent teams and developing code to satisfy complex requirements
• Mentor and coach other software engineers by participating in design and code reviews and share best practices; proactively seek mentorship from others
• Adopt engineering best practices while contributing to the definition of the engineering lifecycle as well as the definition of best practices
• Support existing applications, deployments, and integrations as designed
• Review unfamiliar code to narrow down problems under time constraints and use those findings to propose and implement solutions
• Proactively and reactively identify, define, and add monitoring, tracing capability, metric collection, and reporting to systems to help uncover production issues
• Develop application and process improvements for production performance and/or automate manual tasks
• Analyze, determine root cause, and act to effectively communicate and facilitate resolution of production issues
• Analyze and provide complete solutions to issues to prevent reoccurrences of issues

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IS, MIS, or other technology degree or minimum 4 years of equivalent work experience and high school diploma/GED
• Minimum 2 years of experience developing and implementing commercial software
• Experience creating applications and features in an object-oriented environment (ex. C#, Java)
• Experience with database objects in relational databases (ex. MS SQL) or non-relational databases (ex. MongoDB)
• Experience with HTTP and REST architecture
• Experience with unit, integration, and acceptance testing
• Experience with version control systems (ex. GIT, GitHub, TFS, etc.)
• Experience with CI/CD continuous integration / continuous deployment practices

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in system integration projects or global projects
• Experience with transportation, logistics, or business systems
• Proven track record delivering software in an agile environment
• Experience building cloud native applications and services (ex. Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Experience with data streaming and messaging architecture and frameworks (ex. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ESB)
• Self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision
• Possess solid communication skills and strong customer focus
• A learning and growth mindset that is open to giving and receiving feedback
• Values a diverse and inclusive work environment

Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer

C.H. Robinson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We believe in equality for all and celebrate the diversity of our employees, customers and communities. We believe this increases creativity and innovation, drives business growth and enables engaged and thriving teams. We're committed to providing an inclusive environment, free from harassment and discrimination, where all employees feel welcomed, valued and respected.

Affirmative Action Employer/EOE/M/F/Disabled/Veteran

Benefits

Your Health, Wealth and Self

Your total wellbeing is the foundation of our business, and our benefits support your financial, family and personal goals. We provide the top-tier benefits that matter to you most, including:

• Two medical plans (including a High Deductible Health Plan)
• Prescription drug coverage
• Enhanced Fertility benefits
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Savings Account (including employer contribution)
• Dental and Vision
• Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Paid and floating holidays
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off to volunteer in your community
• Charitable Giving Match Program
• 401(k) with 6% company matching
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Plus a broad range of career development, networking, and team-building opportunities

Dig in to our full list of benefits on OUR CULTURE page.