Lead Engineer, Software Engineering

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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.

Be part of something big.

About XPO

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.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, disability, veteran or other protected status.

All applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment may be required to take and pass a pre-employment drug test.

The above statements are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties and skills for this job classification.

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