Build the operating system for global trade

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. 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.

Our platform is built from the ground up, aggregating data from many different sources. We offer hundreds of different data points and our data model is constantly evolving as we continue to build the capabilities required to manage today’s complex global supply chains.

Finance Engineering

Flexport is a two sided marketplace that on the one hand sells services to our customers and on the other purchases services from our suppliers. The Finance Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the integrity of Flexport’s financial data and everything that touches money going in and out of Flexport. This is a broad but critical area as we handle a lot of things, including systems for Invoicing, payments, currencies, risk management, and accounts payable workflow.

Our team owns a very important company goal of reducing financial leakage by making sure all of Flexport’s cost is being accurately passed on to the right party. We strive to build products that delight our customers and reduce cost by eliminating data entry and increasing automation.

***This position requires attendance in the San Francisco office 3 days per week and 2 days of remote flexibility***

You will:

• Work closely with business partners and product managers to distill complex business problems into elegant technical solutions.
• Build highly available, secure, distributed systems in a microservice architecture.
• Tackle difficult and subtle system-level issues, emphasizing simplicity and long-lasting designs. As we extract services out of the monolith, we take pride in untangling legacy code and re-building with composability in mind.
• Design, develop, test and maintain systems that represent the real-world intricacies of logistics entities, such as shipper, client, cargo, document, carrier, container, email etc.
• Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry to work on complex business and technical problems.
• 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.
• Ensure our products maintain a high-quality bar. We believe in anticipating issues by obsessing over metrics and applying key learnings from post-mortems to all our services.

You should have:

• 3+ years of experience writing software, and a strong engineering background.
• 2+ years of design and architecture knowledge as well as familiarity with object-oriented analysis and design patterns (OOA/OOD)
• Knowledge of at least one programming language such as Ruby, C, C++, Java, or Kotlin
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience

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Worried about not having any freight forwarding experience?

Don’t be! Our mission is to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. 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.