Flexport

Senior Software Engineer, Climate

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3 days ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsSenior

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the Climate Programs Manager and customers to understand needs, challenge assumptions, and translate business goals into a practical roadmap.
  • Own delivery from problem discovery and technical design through implementation, launch, operation, and iteration.
  • Build emissions intelligence into supply-chain decisions involving routing, transport mode, shipment timing, and inventory planning.
  • Develop customer-facing products that turn shipment and environmental data into actionable decisions and help reduce emissions.
  • Own features across user interfaces, backend services, and data integrations while balancing speed, scope, maintainability, and data accuracy.
  • Coordinate with engineering teams on shared systems, integrations, and expertise, and measure whether shipped products solve the underlying problem.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience and a strong foundation delivering production software.
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently, structure ambiguous problems, set priorities, unblock yourself, and follow through without detailed specifications.
  • Strong product judgment and the ability to weigh user needs, impact, effort, and technical tradeoffs.
  • Experience working closely with business stakeholders and explaining technical choices in plain language.
  • Ability to own features across the stack, including user interfaces, backend services, and data integrations.
  • Commitment to writing simple, well-tested, maintainable code and taking responsibility for reliability and maintenance.
  • Ability to learn quickly, including unfamiliar technologies and business domains.
  • Preferred experience includes climate technology, emissions accounting, logistics, supply-chain software, startup or small-team product development, and turning complex data into customer-facing insights.

Benefits

  • Substantial autonomy and ownership of Climate products with the reach of Flexport and the working style of a small startup.
  • Equity participation and a defined pension contribution scheme.
  • 25 vacation days based on full-time employment.
  • Fully paid premiums for Flexport’s collective health insurance plan.
  • Catered lunches, breakfast, snacks, and drinks in the office.
  • Covered home-to-office commuting costs for employees living outside Amsterdam.
  • Employee assistance and parental leave benefits.
  • In Amsterdam, employees work from the office two to three times per week.

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About Flexport

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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