Software Engineer I, Customs
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Job Location:
Amsterdam - Netherlands
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
15 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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.
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.
The Customs team is changing this by automating customs declarations to an unprecedented level. We bring automation that is currently only available to the worlds largest companies who have the money to invest in such tooling to every entrepreneur who wants to move any amount of goods.
On top of that being a tech-first customs broker we can give our clients unparalleled insight into their customs processes providing them with significant cost savings better risk control and significantly better inventory control. This allows companies to provide a more reliable service to their customers at a more competitive price.
Team Projects:
- Developing the worlds first public customs API any third party can integrate with to clear goods
- Automating the customs clearances to an unprecedented level by making it by going fully digital having best-in-class integrations and leveraging AI.
- Earning our customers money by giving them insight into their data allowing them to optimize their filings or leveraging incentive programs better.
Things we
- Modeling extremely 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 be responsible to:
- 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 customs regulations and logistics. (We do this often.)
What youll 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 customs 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.
You should have:
- 2-4 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
- Were agile but not married to a single doctrine like scrum. The teams decide how they work best.
- Stack: were 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
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:
IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- Data Structures
- JavaScript
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Cut costs, automate workflows, reliably move goods, go carbon-neutral, and improve your supply chain from end to end. It all starts here.
