Software Engineer I

About Flexport: 

At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We’re shaping the future of a $10T 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. We 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.

The opportunity:

Flexport’s Omnichannel Fulfillment helps the world's fastest-growing brands distribute their freight to local businesses and their customers. We help merchants seamlessly manage their shipments, inventory, and orders by deeply integrating technology into the operational process.

Exceptional software development is integral in allowing us to fulfill our mission of making global trade easier for everyone. At Flexport you’ll work alongside self-starters interested in solving real-world problems, modeling the work that people do within our fulfillment hubs. You’ll design solutions to make those processes more efficient and think innovatively to automate much of it.

Here are some of the areas we work on:

• Distribution - Optimizing the placement of inventory to simplify the merchant inbounding process, lower fulfillment costs, and reduce delivery times.
• Inbound Visibility - Connecting multiple inbound systems to easily locate and process all inbound containers within our network.
• Outbound Sortation - Scaling our outbound operations to efficiently deliver packages using a broad network of carriers across any part of the US.

You will:

• Build highly available, secure, distributed systems in a microservice architecture.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain systems that represent the real-world intricacies of logistics entities, such as shipments, pallets, appointments, and SKUs.
• Obsess over metrics to identify issues and high-impact problems that are worth solving.
• Work closely with product managers, support, and operations teams to distill complex operational problems into elegant technical solutions.
• Be part of a close-knit engineering team that ships new code with every PR, every day.

You should have:

• 1+ years of experience writing software and a strong engineering background.
• A love of simple, well-tested code that is easy to extend and hard to break.
• The ability to convey technical ideas in common terms to business stakeholders, product managers, and engineers alike.
• A self-starter attitude. When you see a problem, you solve it.
• Knowledge of at least one programming language such as Typescript, Python, Java, Kotlin, or Ruby.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Our stack:

• Continuous Integration: CircleCI and Github
• Frontend: React, Redux, and Jest
• Backend: Node.js and Typescript
• Data: MySQL RDS, Snowflake
• Cloud Infrastructure: AWS using Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, and Docker

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