Senior Integration Support Engineer

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're experiencing record growth and 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 :

We are looking for a talented Integration Support Engineer to join our team! In this role you will be supporting the integrations built to help exchange data between Flexport and our customers and partners.

You will serve as an SME for customers utilizing our self-service API's, providing technical team members with business knowledge to help us solve our customers API issues..

Integrating our best in class platform seamlessly with our logistics partners is a critical component of our strategy. Our integrated solutions bring end to end automation in the information exchange that is required between us and our partners, eliminating slow and error prone manual workflows.

This requires the Flexport platform to be fully integrated with customers and any third party systems our customer uses.

The success of our team is measured by the extent to which information exchange between Flexport and our customers is reliably and effectively automated, reducing cost to serve for our operations teams.

We're looking for an organized and motivated person to ensure inbound requests are triaged quickly and efficiently, owning all communications with major stakeholders including customers, engineers and platform teams.

In addition, you'll work closely with Solutions Engineers and Solutions Consultants to identify process improvements that will maximize the efficiency of the integration support team.

You will :

• Proactively support the integrations running in our production environment. This would include monitoring and triaging the inbound requests, providing support for integration issues, owning investigations end to end and contribute to the integration support knowledge base
• Partner with internal operations, business and technical teams to drive the success rate of these integrations to help bring maximum value to our customers.

Lead meetings with customers / third parties by involving required internal team members to help resolve any issues.

• Become a technical expert in the logistics space and develop a deep understanding of new and existing integrations, EDI standards being used by our larger partners for logistics data, Boomi (our iPaaS), and Flexport public (and private) APIs
• Work efficiently to contribute to a high success rate across all support SLAs by identifying opportunities to optimize existing processes as well as product inefficiencies and also help educate our users on best practice guidelines and overall integration success guidelines
• Create and maintain required charts, dashboards to monitor the health of integrations
• Assist in diagnosis of integration issues in production and aggregate feedback to recommend improvements
• Share insights and lessons learned about the integration issues you come across with your Flexport Ecosystem peers to continuously improve our processes and efficiency

You should have :

• Minimum 5-7 years related work experience and a Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field
• Experience with data analytics, data manipulation and systems integration involving APIs, EDI and other data formats using different connectivity methods.
• Experience using various tools to debug / monitor the transactions like postman, SQL clients, reporting tools like looker and experience working with AWS infrastructure including EC2, S3, SQS and others.
• Ability to effectively support integrations between Flexport and our customers to achieve a high success rate of these integrations.

Work with various internal teams and external partners. Should have passion for helping our users excel with our integrations, offering best practice guidance when opportunities arise

• Ability to prioritize, focus, and adhere to support SLAs and should be able to manage multiple priorities and tickets with organizational and time-management skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills paired with a persistent, proactive, results-oriented mindset, excellent verbal and written communication
• Initiative and positive attitude with a desire to learn and seek answers independently and curiosity to explore the technical side of supply chain / logistics industry

Bonus points if you have :

• Experience with file formats including EDI, CSV, XML or JSON
• Experience with EDI ANSI X12 and EDIFACT standards for logistics industry
• Experience supporting or using the integration platforms like Boomi, Webmethods, Tibco etc.

LI-hybrid

Worried about not having any logistics 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.

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.)

$151,000-$168,000 USD

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.