Staff Software Engineer, Supply Chain Management

Flexport is building the first modern logistics platform to make global trade easier for everyone. We are solving complex problems on a global scale, and disrupting a multi-trillion dollar industry that has remained stubbornly unchanged.

At Flexport, we’re passionate about making global trade easy for everyone. Our 4PL Supply Chain management team is dedicated to optimizing the end-to-end supply chain for our large enterprise customers. We strive to deliver actionable insights that help our customers track inventory movement worldwide, reduce supply chain costs, increase availability and speed. Our team manages end-to-end supply chain complexity so that our customers don’t have to.  

We are searching for a talented Staff Software Engineer to join us in designing and building innovative supply chain management and optimization products. Successful candidates dive deep to understand our customers’ challenges. They model complex supply chain concepts with simple data models, APIs and workflows. They are full stack engineers, with a passion for quality, testing and operational excellence. They mentor and lead other team members in applying software best practices. They collaborate with cross functional teams inside and outside of Flexport. 

As the Staff Software Engineer, You will have the opportunity to:

• Work closely with business partners and product managers to distill complex business problems into elegant technical solutions.

• Take points on complex product initiatives and run them to completion with minimal supervision.

• Design flexible, maintainable code

• Safeguard code quality on your team, reviewing others’ code with an eye to performance and maintainability.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to execute against the vision and roadmap

• Be part of a close-knit engineering team that ships new code into production multiple times a day.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

• A minimum of 8+ years of experience in professional software development

• Experience building large scale, high-performance systems in a complex, multi-tiered, distributed environment

• Strong system design skill set and domain modeling experience

• Experience leading complex projects involving 3 or more engineers 

• Understanding of performance tradeoffs, load balancing and operational issues

• Experience driving inter-team technical collaboration, communication and alignment

• The ability to convey technical ideas in common terms to business partners, product managers, and engineers alike.

• A bias for action. When you see a problem, you solve it. An aptitude for learning

• Demonstrated ability to mentor junior software engineers in all aspects of their engineering skill-sets

• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operations excellence

• Have experience in Supply Chain optimization, purchase order management or booking management 

Our continuous releases are integrated with Buildkite and Github. On the frontend, we create our views with React + Next.js, manage the flow of data with GraphQL/Relay, and test our application with Jest. On the backend, we’re in the process of decoupling our monolithic Rails app into a Micro Services architecture, primarily on JVM languages (Java and Kotlin). Our data is persisted in the right store for the job, typically Postgresql or MongoDB. Our stack is hosted on AWS using Kubernetes. 

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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