Flexport

Software Engineer II

Flexport
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2 months ago
Beijing, ChinaMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Build highly available, secure, distributed systems using a microservice architecture.
  • Build infrastructure solutions that improve development experience across the company and help engineering teams solve infrastructure problems.
  • Design, develop, test, and maintain systems modeling logistics entities such as shippers, clients, cargo, documents, carriers, containers, and email.
  • Collaborate with engineers, business partners, and product managers to turn complex problems into technical solutions.
  • Build and launch products rapidly and incrementally, with production releases occurring dozens of times per day.
  • Maintain a high quality bar by monitoring metrics, anticipating issues, and applying post-mortem learnings across services.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of software development experience and a strong engineering background.
  • At least 2 years of design and architecture experience, with familiarity with object-oriented analysis and design patterns.
  • Knowledge of at least one of TypeScript, Ruby, C, C++, Java, or Kotlin.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience with large-scale, high-performance systems in complex, multi-tiered, distributed environments is preferred.
  • Understanding of performance tradeoffs, load balancing, and operational issues is preferred.
  • Familiarity with professional software engineering practices, source control, continuous deployments, testing, and operations is preferred.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as CDKTF, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar is preferred.
  • Basic knowledge of AWS services including IAM, EC2, ECS, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and VPC is preferred.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and monitoring or observability tools is preferred.
  • Ability to troubleshoot and optimize distributed systems and cloud deployments.
  • Ability to learn quickly and communicate technical ideas to business partners, product managers, and engineers.

Benefits

  • Onsite role, as indicated by the #LI-onsite designation.
  • Opportunity to work on global trade, logistics, and supply chain products with international impact.
Flexport

About Flexport

1,001-5,000 employees

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