Senior Software Engineer

Build the customs management platform to help scale

our business

The opportunity:
Flexport is a freight forwarder and logistics platform using modern software to make global
trade easier for everyone. We are solving complex problems on a global scale, and
disrupting a multi-trillion dollar industry that has remained stubbornly unchanged.

With 13 offices on three continents, we help the world's fastest growing brands manage their
international supply chains, providing a fully-managed service for moving goods between
any two places on the planet.

In Amsterdam, Flexport is adding product and engineering teams to our Vijzelstraat office
with the initial focus on supporting our continued growth within our Trade and Financial
Services group. We build the systems handling customs, insurance and financial lending

Exceptional software development is integral in allowing us to fulfill our mission of making

global trade easier for everyone. At Flexport you’ll develop systems that are at the forefront
of reshaping the entire logistics & supply chain industries.

You will:
● Work closely with our San Francisco based engineering team to build a customs
software platform to handle European customs clearances.
● Work closely with business partners and product managers to distill complex
business problems into elegant technical solutions.
● Craft the engineering vision, and own the technical landscape, for a major domain in
the world of logistics that powers global trade.
● Design systems that represent the real-world intricacies of logistics entities and the
process of moving cargo in and out of countries.
● Mentor and grow junior engineers.
● Build and launch products rapidly and incrementally. We ship to production dozens of
times per day.
● Geek out about shipping, customs regulations and logistics. (We do this often.)

What you’ll build:

● Figure out the most efficient way for our customers and partners to participate in the
process of moving freight across borders.
● Design and build deep, complex integrations with government agencies and partners.
● Automate archaic filing processes and save the operations team thousands of phone
calls per week.
● Deliver supply chain insights to logistics teams via a world-class analytics
experience.
 ● Create beautiful and efficient domain models for the incredibly complex world of
freight forwarding.
● Bring trade to everyone in the world.

You should have:

● 6+ years of experience writing software, and a strong engineering background.
● A love of simple, well-tested code that is easy to extend and hard to break.
● The ability to convey technical ideas in common terms to business partners, product
managers, designers and engineers alike.
● A bias for action. When you see a problem, you solve it.
● A desire to develop your tooling repertoire. We are tech-agnostic regarding candidate
background, but our platform is built with Ruby.
● Optional: experience in Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, React, Modern
Javascript, Node.js and Clojure.
● Optional: production experience in one or more functional languages.
● Non-optional: an aptitude for learning quickly.
● A desire to periodically travel to San Francisco where our engineering headquarter is
located.

Our stack:
Our continuous releases are integrated with Buildkite and Github. On the frontend, we create
our views with React, manage the flow of data with GraphQL/Relay, and test our application
with Jest. On the backend, we’re in the process of decoupling our monolithic Rails app and
introducing services using other languages, such as Java, Node.js, Go, Clojure. Our data is
persisted in mostly Postgres and Redis. Our stack is hosted on AWS using Docker.

Engineering Culture and Values:

Check out our Key Values profile.

About Flexport:
We believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to
make global trade easier for everyone. We aim to do this by building the Operating System
for Global trade - a strategic model combining advanced technology and data analytics,
logistics infrastructure, and supply chain expertise. Flexport today connects almost 10,000
clients and suppliers across 109 countries, including established global brands like Georgia-
Pacific as well as emerging innovators like Sonos. Started in 2013, we've raised over $1.3B
in funding from SoftBank Vision Fund, Founders Fund, GV, First Round Capital and Y
Combinator. We’re excited about the three big ways we’re moving forward after our recent
$1B investment from SoftBank Vision Fund in February 2019.

Worried about not having any freight forwarding

experience?
● Don’t be! We’re building the first Operating System for Global Trade. That’s why it’s
incredibly important for us to bring people from diverse backgrounds and experiences
 together with our industry veterans to help move the freight forwarding industry
forward.
● What’s freight forwarding and why does it matter? Freight forwarding is the
coordination and shipment of goods from one place to another and it’s what makes
global trade possible. Flexport is on a mission to make global trade easier for
everyone because we believe it can help connect the world and break down
economic barriers.
● We know this industry is complex. That’s why we invest in education starting day one
with Flexport Academy, a one week intensive onboarding program designed
specifically to set every new Flexport employee up for success.

At Flexport, our ability to fulfill our mission of making global trade easy for everyone relies on
having a diverse, dedicated and engaged workforce. That is why Flexport is committed to
creating and nurturing an environment where anyone can be their authentic self. All qualified
applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex,
national origin, age, physical and mental disability, health status, marital and family status,
sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, military and veteran status, and any other
characteristic protected by applicable law.