3 months ago
Shanghai, ChinaEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Build highly available, secure, distributed systems.
- Design, develop, test, and maintain systems representing logistics entities such as shippers, cargo, documents, carriers, containers, and email.
- Collaborate with engineers on complex business and technical problems.
- Work with 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 and applying post-mortem learnings across services.
- Own the design and development of key parts of forwarding systems and contribute to subsystem design and engineering practices.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience writing software and a strong engineering background.
- At least 2 years of design and architecture knowledge, including familiarity with object-oriented analysis and design patterns.
- Knowledge of at least one of 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.
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices across coding standards, code reviews, source control, continuous deployments, testing, and operations is preferred.
- Ability to communicate technical ideas to business partners, product managers, and engineers is preferred.
- Ability to learn quickly and a preference for simple, well-tested, extensible code are expected.
Benefits
- One-week Flexport Academy onboarding program for every new employee.
- The role is based on working with teams in Shanghai and Shenzhen.
- Equal-opportunity workplace committed to diversity and inclusion.
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.