Software Engineer II, Trade & Financial Services

The opportunity:

Moving goods across international borders remains the last and most gnarly problem in unlocking the full potential of global trade. While anyone can found a company these days, set up a webshop and receive international payments, getting a container from a factory in Asia to your warehouse in Rotterdam or Chicago remains so complex that you need specialized people to handle this for you. Flexport is the world’s only freight forwarder founded after the invention of Netscape. We are the disruptor shaping the future of this $8.6 trillion industry. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move over $19 billion of merchandise across 112 countries annually.

The trade services team in Amsterdam helps entrepreneurs of all sizes make moving their goods easier in four important ways:

• With our sustainability products, we help our customers make the best environmental choices so they can reduce their footprint without increasing their cost or limiting their service. For example, through better scheduling we can move your freight by ocean instead of air transport which is 80(!) times less polluting. 
• Our insurance products mitigate risks for customers with valuable goods in transit. Accidents happen, and losing goods before they’re sold can range from frustrating to devastating for entrepreneurs.
• Our capital product offers customers the ability to borrow against goods still in transit, allowing them to reinvest capital that would otherwise be locked up until they can sell the goods after arrival.
• Our Drawback product allows customers to reclaim import duties they paid on goods that they didn’t end up selling. For example flowers that weren’t sold in time, or goods that got re-exported. For a lot of customers using this feature allows them to be a lot 

All these services leverage the larger Flexport platform and the unparalleled data insight we have into the industry to make it just click in our app to benefit from these products. 

Team Projects:

• Drawback; we are on track to become the highest yielding drawback product in the world using our advanced matching algorithms and data pipelines to determine which claims we can file.
• Emission calculator in the route planner, allowing you to find alternative routes with less impact.
• Parcel insurance: protecting our last mile delivery from theft and damage

Things we ❤️

• Modeling complex and ambiguous domains into fully automated workflows
• Building highly performant and reliable Kotlin services on our cutting edge infrastructure platform
• Collaborating with our end users across the globe to make the best possible product for them: removing toil and surfacing interesting cases
• Leveraging AI in a safe way to eliminate toil and mundane work for customs brokers.

You will:

• Work closely with business partners and product managers to distill complex business problems into elegant technical solutions.
• Work on systems that represent the real-world intricacies of logistics entities and the process of moving cargo in and out of countries.
• Build and launch products rapidly and incrementally. We ship to production dozens of times per day.
• Geek out about shipping and logistics. (We do this often.)

You should have:

• 1-3 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.
• Non-optional: an aptitude for learning quickly.

How we work:

• We come to the office at two to three times a week to hang out, have lunch, white board, and collaborate
• We have the latest and greatest hardware and software for you to work with
• We’re agile, but not married to a single doctrine like scrum. The teams decide how they work best.
• Stack: we’re coming from a React/Flow + Ruby on Rails monolith, and moving to React/Typescript, Kotlin Microservices on Kubernetes. We also use and love GraphQL, GRPC, Postgres, Kafka and Snowflake

Other perks:

• Incredible stock option plan (RSUs), that has tremendous growth potential
• Yearly bonus: a yearly bonus of 10% of your base salary
• Free breakfast AND lunch/snacks: there is such a thing as free lunch (catered, seasonal, warm! We can prove it in our office
• Fully covered health insurance and dental care
• Pension plan