Senior Engineer, Global Technology - Americas Capabilities

As a Senior Engineer at Expeditors, you will provide technical leadership in the design, development, implementation, and operation of technology solutions that support Americas supply chain and logistics operations.

You will work closely with engineers, architects, managers, product teams, and business stakeholders to deliver business capabilities on a modern enterprise cloud platform.

The team develops Angular frontends and Java Spring Boot services and applies AI across the engineering lifecycle, including AI-enabled solution design, coding agents, agentic workflows, automation, and operational excellence practices.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the design, delivery, and production support of complex technology solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.
• Establishing reusable AI and agentic workflow patterns that improve engineering productivity, reliability, and operational effectiveness.
• Partnering across engineering and business teams to deliver strategic capabilities while advancing engineering standards and practices.

Within the first 12–18 months, you will lead 2–3 significant capabilities from design through production and demonstrate measurable business, reliability, or productivity improvements.

Technical Depth and Delivery

• Lead the design, development, implementation, and support of complex technology solutions across modern cloud-based platforms.
• Drive AI-enabled engineering practices, automation, CI/CD improvements, and operational excellence initiatives.

Architectural Scale

• Design scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems while evaluating technical tradeoffs across platforms and dependencies.
• Design and orchestrate agent-based workflows that integrate agents, skills, tools, and human oversight.

Team Collaboration Scale

• Collaborate with engineering teams, architects, product partners, and business stakeholders to deliver shared outcomes.
• Mentor engineers through technical guidance, knowledge sharing, and engineering best practices.

Influence and Advocacy

• Champion engineering excellence, operational best practices, and technical solutions that improve quality and customer outcomes.
• Communicate technical recommendations, risks, and strategy to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Scope of Vision

• Translate business objectives into scalable technical solutions and execution plans with a long-term perspective.
• Identify opportunities to modernize systems, reduce technical debt, and improve operational performance.

Scale of Business Understanding and Impact

• Apply business and customer needs to technical prioritization and solution design decisions.
• Deliver solutions that improve customer experience, operational effectiveness, and business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong fundamentals in architecture, APIs and integration, testing, security, observability, and maintainable code.
• Advanced hands-on proficiency in Java and Spring Boot and experience building enterprise applications with Angular.
• Experience building AI-enabled solutions in production, including RAG, evaluation, guardrails, and responsible AI practices.
• Experience using coding agents and AI-assisted development tools, including context management and validation of AI-generated output.
• Experience designing agentic workflows with task decomposition, tool integration, human-in-the-loop review, approval processes, and auditability.
• Experience automating engineering and operational workflows, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, data or process pipelines, and monitoring.
• Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Current role-based Microsoft Azure certification, or the ability to obtain one within 12 months of hire.

Benefits

• Paid vacation
• Holidays (10)
• Flexible Days (2)
• Paid Sick Time (accrual rate of 1 hour of sick time per 30 hours paid)
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with employer match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental & Vision Coverage
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave (additional eligibility criteria)
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DC FSA)
• Commuter Benefit
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Training and Personnel Development Program
• Educational Assistance and Reimbursement