Senior Software Engineer

Company: Flexport
Location: Seattle
Posted on: October 19, 2020

Job Description:

Craft the architectural strategy, and own the technical landscape, for a major domain in the world of logistics that powers global trade. Design systems that represent the real-world intricacies of logistics entities, such as cargo, routing, customs, and pricing. Work closely with business partners and product managers to distill complex business problems into elegant technical solutions. Build and launch products rapidly and incrementally. We ship to production dozens of times per day. Geek out about shipping and logistics. (We do this often.) You play a significant role in the career development of others, actively mentoring and educating the larger software engineering community on trends, technologies, and best practices. Model business processes to ingest costs and variances, understanding root cause, analyzing discrepancies, automating remedies / disputes to detect and stop financial leakage. Design simple solutions to onboard partners to broaden financial visibility coverage. Create services to automate business processes and consolidate them into central logic hubs. Drive data accuracy architecture and improvement loops through various subsystems. What you---ll build Determine, in real-time, the cost to move freight between any two points in the world. Automate archaic filing processes and save the operations team thousands of phone calls per week. Deliver supply chain insights to logistics teams via a world-class analytics experience. Predict capacity on container ships and match cargo to space on those ships. Bring trade to everyone in the world. You should have Basic Qualifications 5 years of experience writing software, and a strong engineering background. Experience building large scale, high-performance systems in a complex, multi-tiered, distributed environment Knowledge of at least one programming language such as Ruby, C, C++, Java, or Kotlin 3 years of design and architecture knowledge as well as familiarity with object-oriented analysis and design patterns (OOA/OOD) Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience

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