Description
About Flexport
At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. We're shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people.
The opportunity
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.
About the team
We have multiple teams in Shanghai and Shenzhen working on a suite of core products and services that enable Flexport operation to scale, including Forwarding Application, Client Application, Shipper Application, WMS, Consol Planning Tool, Document Platform (AI empowered), Email Platform, Compliance Platform, Work Assignment Engine, Exception Management, AI Copilot, Insight Builder (AI Data Analytics) and so on.
You will
- Build highly available, secure, distributed systems in a microservice architecture.
- Build cutting edge infrastructure solutions to help improve development experience across the company.
- Design, develop, test and maintain systems that represent the real-world intricacies of logistics entities, such as shipper, client, cargo, document, carrier, container, email etc.
- Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry to work on complex business and technical problems.
- Work closely with business partners and product managers to distill complex business problems into elegant technical solutions.
- Build and launch products rapidly and incrementally. We ship to production dozens of times per day.
- Ensure our products maintain a high-quality bar.
- Geek out about shipping and logistics.
You should have
Basic Qualifications - 3+ years of experience writing software, and a strong engineering background.
- 2+ years of design and architecture knowledge as well as familiarity with object-oriented analysis and design patterns (OOA/OOD)
- Knowledge of at least one programming language such as TypeScript, Ruby, C, C++, Java, or Kotlin
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications - A love of simple, well-tested code that is easy to extend and hard to break.
- A bias for action. When you see a problem, you solve it.
- The ability to convey technical ideas in common terms to business partners, product managers, and engineers alike.
- Experience building large scale, high-performance systems in a complex, multi-tiered, distributed environment
- Understanding of performance tradeoffs, load balancing and operational issues
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operations
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as CDKTF, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar.
- Having basic concepts in AWS services, including IAM, EC2, ECS, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and VPC, or equivalent services from other cloud providers.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and monitoring/observability tools.
- Ability to troubleshoot and optimize distributed systems and cloud deployments.
- Non-optional: an aptitude for learning quickly.