Flexport

Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Freight Systems

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2 months ago

Base Salary

$183k - $229k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own core systems end to end, from schema design and backend APIs to React customer interfaces and production deployment.
  • Design and build AI-powered features, agent workflows, and LLM-backed automation for rates, pricing intelligence, and freight booking.
  • Identify engineering gaps and inefficiencies, propose solutions, and lead them through production.
  • Drive technical designs and align teammates before implementation.
  • Mentor P2 engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design feedback.
  • Collaborate with product, design, pricing, and operations to build production-ready solutions.
  • Deploy frequently and improve reliability through metrics, monitoring, and incident learnings.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping production-grade systems with increasing independence.
  • Strong full-stack proficiency spanning database and schema design, API contracts, backend services, and frontend architecture.
  • Hands-on experience building production software that integrates LLMs into real user workflows, including practical understanding of latency, reliability, prompt fragility, and cost.
  • Experience deploying, monitoring, and maintaining production services on AWS.
  • Ability to independently identify problems, drive technical design, communicate tradeoffs, and maintain well-tested, well-structured code.
  • Preferred experience with Java, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, React, AWS, agentic patterns, RAG, Temporal, logistics, supply chain, freight technology, or pricing systems.

Benefits

  • On-site role in San Francisco.
  • Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and flexible time off.
  • Bonus and equity are included in the total rewards package.

Tech Stack

AWSJavaReactRuby on RailsSpring Boot
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About Flexport

1,001-5,000 employees

Our mission is to make global trade so easy that there will be more of it.