The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
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 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.
Architect and drive major projects while coordinating with multiple: stakeholders. We often work on multi-month projects that require phased rollouts and collaboration with cross-functional team members.
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.
What they're looking for
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Geek out about shipping and logistics. (We do this often.)
