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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 $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 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.

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.

The opportunity:

The Commerce Tech team is responsible for defining the products in the marketplace, setting up the pricing strategy, managing the quoting and requoting workflow, and also handling the financial related staff, like invoicing, billing and payment. We are broadly leveraging optimization models, machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) to build the best solutions for our customers. We are looking for engineers who love learning, are passionate about collaborating, and desire to build solutions with a global impact.

The role involves learning the business of freight forwarding, modeling the work that people do to move freight, designing solutions to make it more efficient, and thinking innovatively to automate much of it. In this role, you will have an opportunity to own the design and development of key parts of our forwarding systems. You will have influence on subsystem design and help contribute to a team culture around practices that are critical to a quality product.

This position requires attendance in the Bellevue 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.

• Help the team build a technical vision and roadmap in collaboration with Product Managers (PM), Engineering Managers (EM), and leadership.

• 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.

• Onboard and mentor engineers. We believe in structured onboarding and mentoring processes to ensure a smooth transition into the team and then continued development on the team.

• Champion a culture of quality and reliability, using metrics and post-mortems to drive continuous improvement.

You should have:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.

• A minimum of 5 years of professional software development experience

• Experience architecting and building complex, enterprise grade systems in a complex, multi-tiered, distributed environment

• A desire to develop your tooling repertoire. We are tech-agnostic regarding candidate background, but our platform is built with AWS, Kotlin, Java, Ruby, etc.

• Experience as a technical lead for a group of engineers and a demonstrated ability to lead teams through complex, technical decision processes.

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

• Geek out about shipping and logistics. (We do this often.)

• Experience architecting and building complex, enterprise grade systems in a complex, multi-tiered, distributed environment

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

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The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range displayed, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and / or training.

The US base salary range for this position: (exclusive of bonus, equity and benefits.)

$183,273—$229,091 USD

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

At Flexport, our ability to fulfill our mission of making global commerce easy and accessible 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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