Software Engineer II (Generalist)

Flexport is a platform for global trade in an industry that comprises 12% of the global GDP. We are the first licensed freight forwarder and customs brokerage built around a modern tech stack. We help the world’s fastest-growing brands manage their international supply chains, providing a fully-managed service for moving products between any two places on the planet.

Exceptional software development is integral to our mission of fixing the user experience in global trade. As a Software Engineer II, you will develop products at the forefront of reshaping the entire logistics and supply chain industry. You’ll work alongside self-starters interested in solving real-world problems and streamlining inefficiencies in complex global systems.

The opportunity

You will

• Build & Scale: Develop highly available, secure, distributed systems within a microservice architecture.
• Model Reality: Design and maintain systems that represent real-world logistics entities, such as shipments, cargo, containers, pallets, SKUs, and global trade documents.
• Collaborate: Work closely with business partners, product managers, and operations teams to distill complex business problems into elegant technical solutions.
• Ship Rapidly: Join a close-knit engineering team that ships to production dozens of times per day.
• Own Quality: Obsess over metrics and high-quality bars, applying key learnings from post-mortems to ensure system reliability.

You should have

• Experience: 3+ years of professional software development experience with a strong engineering background.
• Architecture: 2+ years of experience in system design and architecture, including familiarity with OOA/OOD and design patterns.
• Technical Breadth: Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, or C++).
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Mindset: A "bias for action"—when you see a problem, you solve it—and an aptitude for learning quickly.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building large-scale, high-performance systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment.
• Understanding of performance tradeoffs, load balancing, and operational issues.
• A love for simple, well-tested code that is easy to extend and hard to break.
• The ability to convey technical ideas in common terms to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Our stack

While specific tools vary by team, our ecosystem includes:

• Backend: Java, Kotlin, Ruby on Rails, Node.js (TypeScript)
• Frontend: React, Redux, Jest
• Infrastructure: AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, Docker), MySQL RDS, Snowflake
• CI/CD: CircleCI and GitHub