Engineering Manager, Customs
Engineering Manager, Customs
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Job Description
About Flexport:
At Flexport we believe global trade can move the human race forward. Thats why its our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. Were shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today companies of all sizesfrom emerging brands to Fortune 500suse Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year.
The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business society and the environment Come join us.
Why Customs Matters More Than Ever
International trade is under more pressure than ever before. With tariffs shifting regulations and geopolitical uncertainty customs has gone from a back-office function to a boardroom priority. The recent trade crisissparked by Trump-era tariffshas made customs the single most complex challenge for global businesses. For many its the difference between keeping supply chains moving or grinding them to a halt.
Thats where we come in. The Customs Technology team at Flexport is leading the charge. We are building the systems that help entrepreneurs and global brands navigate complexity stay compliant and keep the worlds goods flowing.
The Opportunity
Customs brokerage is one of the largest most under-innovated opportunities in logistics. Legacy customs brokers are stuck with outdated systems and manual processesthey simply cant adapt fast enough.
Flexport is growing fast because were different. We are the only big tech company in the space and the only freight forwarder that got founded after the launch of Netscape. Being a tech company we can move much faster than our competitors and give our customers the service they expect in this day and age. We can deploy things like LLM agents at scale in an industry that is ripe to be disrupted by this technology.
What Youll Do
As an Engineering Manager in the Customs Technology team youll lead a group of exceptional engineers to:
- Build world class tools like our Tariff Simulator the only tool that gives businesses a real view of landed costs before they ship.
- Automate customs processes to an unprecedented level. Most customs are text based work which is what agents excel at.
- Design scalable systems that automate classification compliance and filingsturning weeks of work into seconds.
- Partner with product design and operations to deliver technology that gives clients clarity cost savings and risk control.
- Mentor and grow a world-class 6-10 member engineering team that thrives on solving the hardest problems in logistics.
- Shape the future of customs into a transparent efficient and strategic advantage for businesses worldwide.
Things We
- Leveraging AI in a safe way to eliminate mundane work for customs brokers and automate customs every step of the way
- Modeling complex and ambiguous domains into fully automated workflows
- Building highly performant and reliable Kotlin services on our cutting-edge infrastructure platform
- Collaborating with end users across the globe to create the best possible product: removing toil and surfacing interesting cases
You Should Have
- 24 years of experience leading software engineering teams
- Ability to break down complex problems into actionable plans. You need to go deep into details in a domain completely unfamiliar to you and come out with an end to end understanding to automate it.
- A love of simple well-tested code that is easy to extend and hard to break
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
- A bias for actionyou see problems and solve them
- An aptitude for learning quickly (non-optional)
How We Work
- The latest and greatest hardware and software to support you including all AI tools.
- Agile ways of workingwithout being tied to a single doctrine like Scrum
- A modern stack: moving from a React/Flow Ruby on Rails monolith to React/Typescript Kotlin microservices on Kubernetes. We also use and love GraphQL gRPC Postgres Kafka and Snowflake.
Whats in It for You
- An opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest-growing companies with global impact
- Daily catered lunches (vegetarian options included) breakfast snacks coffee/tea and soft drinks in our office
- Covered commute expenses for employees living outside Amsterdam
- 25 vacation days per year (full-time)
- Fully paid health insurance (basic and additional packages) through a collective plan
- A defined pension contribution scheme
- Equity program: become a shareholder in a multi-trillion-dollar industry disruptor
- Employee Assistance Program (Aetna Resources for Living)
- Parental leave benefit for both mothers and partners
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
At Flexport our ability to fulfill our mission of making global commerce easy and accessible relies on having a diverse dedicated and engaged workforce. 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.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
