Flexport is looking to solve inefficiencies in the complex global trade industry by creating the new operating system for global trade. The Cost Capture Team specifically aims to revolutionize procurement cost tracking across Ocean, Air, and Trucking freight logistics by digitizing procurement contracts and making them centrally available for optimized decision-making.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of professional experience in full-stack development with demonstrated coding skills.
- Proficiency in modern programming languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, or Node.js.
- Proficiency with technologies like databases, API development, and testing frameworks.
- Proficiency with deploying, monitoring, and maintaining production services.
- Experience with elements of our tech stack: Java, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, React, AWS.
- A bias for action; when you see a problem, you fix it.
- Ability to convey technical ideas in common terms to business stakeholders, product managers, and engineers alike.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain systems that represent the real-world intricacies of logistics entities, such as packing lists, booking notifications, and routing guides.
- Contribute to code reviews to maintain code quality, share knowledge, and learn from other team members.
- Collaborate with business partners and product managers to translate complex business problems into elegant technical solutions.
- Build highly available, secure, and distributed systems within a microservices architecture.
- Work collaboratively with peer teams on cross-team projects, building solutions that add new functionality to multiple Flexport systems.
- Rapidly build and launch products incrementally, leveraging best practices around CI/CD to facilitate development.
- Ensure high-quality standards by incorporating metrics and applying learnings from post-mortems to all services.
Other
- This role is based in Bellevue, WA, and requires in-person attendance five times a week.
- Excellent written communication skills. You will work with people all over the world with different primary languages and time zones, so great writing is key.
- While logistics experience is a plus, it is not a requirement.
- We value a willingness to learn and a passion for innovation.
- Commitment to Equal Opportunity
