Flexport

Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Freight Systems

Flexport
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2 months ago

Base Salary

$197k - $246k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and ship end-to-end AI agents for pricing intelligence and booking compliance without human oversight.
  • Build secure AI infrastructure and tooling for exposing internal logistics data to LLMs.
  • Apply agent patterns, RAG, prompt engineering, and workflow orchestration to production systems.
  • Launch products rapidly and incrementally on Flexport’s client-facing rates and freight booking surfaces.
  • Mentor and develop engineers while promoting technical excellence.
  • Partner with the Engineering Manager to define the team’s technical roadmap and hiring bar.
  • Collaborate with Pricing, Sales, Operations, and Design on logistics domain problems.

Requirements

  • Experience with agent patterns, retrieval-augmented generation, and prompt engineering in production.
  • Experience with workflow orchestration such as Temporal and building reliable systems around non-deterministic AI.
  • Proven ability to identify high-leverage product opportunities and build data-heavy applications with high-quality user interactions.
  • Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams or systems and building unified interfaces over diverse backend systems.
  • Experience building large-scale distributed systems and simple, well-tested, maintainable code.
  • Strong technical communication skills with business partners, product managers, and engineers.
  • Experience with Java, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, React, or AWS is a plus.
  • Experience in logistics, supply chain, freight technology, internal tools, or operator-facing applications is a plus.

Benefits

  • On-site role in San Francisco.
  • Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and flexible time off.

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.