3 months ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve paved paths and self-service developer tooling.
- Create and support CI/CD pipelines, build tooling, and artifact repositories.
- Own and improve backend and frontend developer experience.
- Steward Flexport’s GraphQL and gRPC ecosystem, including middleware, federation, schema sharing, CLIs, code generation, servers, and clients.
- Evolve and integrate IAM solutions and primitives so systems are secure by default.
- Improve developer use of Kubernetes, ECS, OpenMetrics, and Datadog for operating and debugging services.
- Research developer needs, ship platform improvements through production rollout, and measure their impact.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including experience building developer platforms or internal tooling used by other engineers.
- Full-stack comfort across backend services, frontend build pipelines, Kubernetes manifests, and CI configuration.
- Hands-on expertise with several CI/CD systems, container orchestrators, multi-language build tooling, backend-for-frontend systems, service-to-service communication, metrics, and artifact storage.
- Strong internal product instincts, including the ability to identify valuable improvements for engineers and measure outcomes.
- Experience solving technical debt, fixing broken systems, executing migrations, and working independently in ambiguous environments.
- Excellent communication skills, including running developer interviews and writing clear design documents.
- Preferred experience with data-driven developer experience development using DORA metrics, AWS, IAM at scale, JWTs, OIDC, fine-grained authorization, and Terraform.
Benefits
- Hybrid work with three days per week in the office.
- Daily catered lunches, breakfast, snacks, and soft drinks at the office.
- Flexport covers home-office commuting costs for employees living outside Amsterdam.
- 25 vacation days for full-time employees.
- Employer-paid collective health insurance, including basic and available additional packages.
- Defined pension contribution scheme.
- Equity program for all team members.
- Employee Assistance Program through Aetna Resources for Living.
- Parental leave for mothers and partners.
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About Flexport
Flexport builds a cloud-based platform for freight forwarding and customs brokerage, combining ocean, air, and truck booking with shipment tracking and analytics for importers and exporters. It earns fees for logistics services and provides supply chain visibility software that integrates with warehousing and trade compliance workflows. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company operates globally across major trade lanes.