Build the first modern logistics platform

The opportunity:

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.

The team:

The Forwarding Tech Engineering Org is responsible for building the software that freight forwarders use to move goods around the world. We study the work that people do in freight forwarding, develop software and processes to standardize it and make it more efficient, and ultimately automate much of it. We work with product, design, and data teams to solve problems of work allocation and optimization. At Flexport you’ll develop systems that are at the forefront of reshaping the entire logistics & supply chain industries.

Procurement Tech Team

Join our innovative team and lead the charge in revolutionizing data systems with cutting-edge LLM AI technologies! We're dedicated to crafting scalable cost data solutions that enhance freight forwarding operations with unparalleled accuracy, coverage, and reliability. In this role, you'll tackle exciting challenges, developing advanced systems for superior cost control, efficient data management, anomaly detection, and predictive rate forecasting. If you're ready to drive industry-leading innovation and transform complex data into actionable insights, we want to hear from you!

You will:

• Research about new AI technologies, experiment with them and build production-grade features and products with them.
• Work closely with business partners and product managers to distill complex business problems into elegant technical solutions.
• Take points on complex product initiatives and run them to completion with minimal supervision.
• Design flexible, maintainable code
• Safeguard code quality on your team, reviewing others’ code with an eye to performance and maintainability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to execute against the vision and roadmap
• Work closely with designers and product managers to distill complex business problems into elegant technical solutions.
• Be part of a close-knit engineering team that ships new code into production multiple times a day.
• Geek out about shipping and logistics. (We do this often.)

You should have:

• 5+ years of experience writing software and a strong engineering background. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• A love of simple, well-tested code that is easy to extend and hard to break.
• The ability to convey technical ideas in common terms to business partners, product managers, designers, and engineers alike.
• Understanding of performance tradeoffs, load balancing and operational issues.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor junior software engineers in all aspects of their engineering skill-sets.
• 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.
• A bias for action. When you see a problem, you solve it.
• A desire to develop your tooling repertoire. We are tech-agnostic regarding candidate background, but our platform is built with Ruby, Java, and JavaScript.
• Experience in LLM application development, particularly in data extraction from unstructured and semi-structured data, anomaly detection, predictive forecasting, and natural language processing, is highly desirable.
• Optional: experience in Ruby, Rails, Java, Kotlin, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Relay.js, React.js, React Hooks and TypeScript.
• Non-optional: an aptitude for learning quickly and curiosity about new technologies.

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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.