Staff Software Engineer, Identity Services

Flexport is building the first modern logistics platform to make global trade easier for everyone. We help the world's fastest-growing brands manage their international supply chains, providing a fully managed service for moving their products between any two places on the planet.

At Flexport, you’ll develop products that are 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 a new operating system for international trade.

The Identity Services team is on a mission to build the dominant identity platform for the entire global supply chain.

Identity Services is critical to Flexport's success:

• We're rebuilding our core platform with the fundamental building blocks to power all Flexport applications.
• Our systems are Tier-1 - They need to be highly available and performant.
• Our systems need to be extensible, self-service, and future-proof - We need to build for future Flexport applications that we haven't discovered yet.

As a part of the Identity Services team, you will be responsible for building systems across the three pillars of User identity:

• Identity Management: Provide Tier-1 services that are the sources of truth for user identity, profile, and group information.
• Authentication: Provide standards-compliant and consistent single-sign-on authentication experience across all Flexport applications.
• Authorization system that includes a low-latency, highly reliable service for large-scale, fine-grained authorization using Relationship-Based Access Control and Role-Based Access Control.

• Drive the future architecture of the identity platform, collaborating with technical leaders across Flexport.
• Design and build backend systems with composability, extensibility, and scale in mind. 
• Engage in conversations with other engineering teams, gathering requirements that inform the roadmap. We believe in delivering quality customer service by being highly responsive on our support channels, listening to feedback, and evangelizing our products. 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• You have 10+ years of experience writing software and a strong engineering background.
• Deep understanding of identity management and authentication protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML
• Experience building enterprise-grade authorization systems using Attributed-based access control or relationship-based access control.
• Experience as a generalist working on both the frontend and backend to provide the best solutions for our users.
• Experience with scalable distributed systems, both built from scratch and on AWS primitives.
• Ability to debug complex systems

Bonus if you have:

• Experience migrating large monolithic applications to service-oriented architecture
• Experience building services using Java, Spring boot, and gRPC.
• Experience building multi-tenant platform API.

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.

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.

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