Lead Engineer, Software Engineering

Solutions driven success.

XPO is a top ten global provider of transportation services, with a highly integrated network of people, technology and physical assets.

At XPO, we look for employees who like a challenge and can communicate effectively in all situations. We want to leverage your skills and years of experience to drive positive results while ensuring a bright future for yourself and XPO.

If you’re looking for a growth opportunity, join us at XPO.

Pay, benefits and more.

We’re eager to attract the best, so we offer competitive compensation and a generous benefits package, including full health insurance (medical, dental and vision), 401(k), life insurance, disability, and the opportunity to participate in a company incentive plan.

As the Lead Engineer, Software Engineering, you will oversee the development / support of specific IT areas and systems, and the timely delivery of projects.

On our team, you’ll have the support to excel at work and the resources to build a career you can be proud of.

What you’ll do on a typical day :

• Oversee the development / support of specific IT areas and systems, and the timely delivery of projects.
• Identify and communicate risks to the business; investigate and propose new tools and frameworks to deliver quality products faster.
• Act as a liaison between project management, technical teams and IT leadership; assure best practices are defined and followed;

drive consistency across applications and projects wherever possible.

• Manage all aspects of coding for the team, including branching, code review, continuous integration, build and release management, code reusability and maintainability with constant refactoring.
• Mentor developers and help resolve technical roadblocks; conduct collaborative code reviews and coordinate the deployment and implementation of software solutions;

recognize organizational / team challenges and address them with management.

• Develop and maintain automated CI / CD pipelines for code deployment and collaborate with developers to manage code releases.
• Eligible for telecommuting from home within reasonable commuting distance from Portland, OR. Will require physical presence at worksite in Portland, OR at least several days a week.

What you need to succeed at XPO :

At a minimum, you’ll need :

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, engineering technology, or a related technical field. Employer will accept any foreign Bachelor’s degree program of at least 3 years.
• Requires four (4) years of experience as a Software Web Developer, Senior Software Developer Lead, or related.
• Experience must include four (4) years of experience in all of the following :
• Software solutions development in medium to large corporate environments or commercial software companies. Industry-standard IDEs Eclipse, Visual Studio, WebStorm, VSCode.

Data marshalling, data transformation, and data representation technologies (Model entities, JSON, HTML, XML, Stylesheets).

Rapid programming, agile development, software patterning, and refactoring techniques. Process communication techniques (shared memory, message queues, data streams, semaphores).

Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses common programming languages (C, C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic, JavaScript, TypeScript).

IT software development life cycle methodologies and processes, including usage of source control tools.