Staff Software Engineer, Commerce Tech

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.

Build the operating system for global trade

Flexport is building the first modern logistics platform to make global trade easier for everyone. We are solving complex problems on a global scale, and disrupting a multi-trillion dollar industry that has remained stubbornly unchanged.

We help the world's fastest-growing brands manage their international supply chains, providing a fully-managed service for moving their products between any two places on the planet.

Our platform is built from the ground up, aggregating data from many different sources. We offer hundreds of different data points and our data model is constantly evolving as we continue to build the capabilities required to manage today's complex global supply chains.

The opportunity :

The Commerce Tech team is responsible for defining the products in the marketplace, setting up the pricing strategy, managing the quoting and requoting workflow, and also handling the financial related staff, like invoicing, billing and payment.

We are broadly leveraging optimization models, machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) to build the best solutions for our customers.

We are looking for engineers who love learning, are passionate about collaborating, and desire to build solutions with a global impact.

The role involves learning the business of freight forwarding, modeling the work that people do to move freight, designing solutions to make it more efficient, and thinking innovatively to automate much of it.

In this role, you will have an opportunity to own the design and development of key parts of our forwarding systems. You will have influence on subsystem design and help contribute to a team culture around practices that are critical to a quality product.

This position requires attendance in the Bellevue office 3 days per week and 2 days of remote flexibility

You will :

• Own the system architecture for the commerce systems and ensure the sub-systems are working together smoothly.
• Design and architect data models across the subsystems to handle offering, quoting, charges, revenue, payments to ensure there is an accurate and up to date view for our internal and external customers.
• Write and review code and be a role model for engineers at all levels on how software should be built.
• 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.
• Onboard and mentor engineers. We believe in structured onboarding and mentoring processes to ensure a smooth transition into the team and then continued development on the team.

You should have :

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• A strong technical background, preferably as a Staff, Sr.Staff or Principal engineer.
• Experience architecting and building complex, enterprise grade systems in a complex, multi-tiered, distributed environment
• Experience as a technical lead for a group of engineers and a demonstrated ability to lead teams through complex, technical decision processes.
• The ability to convey technical ideas in common terms to business partners, product managers, designers and engineers alike.
• A desire to develop your tooling repertoire. We are tech-agnostic regarding candidate background, but our platform is built with React, Ruby, communicating via GraphQL and gRPC / Protobuf.

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.)

$221,484-$246,094 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.