Flexport

Global Trade

SeniorSoftwareEngineer,AutonomousFreightSystems

$183–229k San Francisco, California, United States
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Freight Systems at Flexport. Skills: Autonomous Freight Systems, Client-facing rates platform, Self-serve freight booking. Take end-to-end technical ownership. Drive systems to production”

What You'll Achieve.

Ship with velocity; Build platform for tech-run model; Turn complexity into seamless experience

Industry & Context.

Global Trade
Problems you'll solve

Identify gaps; Resolve problems; Translate complex problems; Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years software engineering experience, Full-Stack Fluency, AI/LLM Hands-On Experience, Agency and Drive, Technical Rigor, Communication skills

Nice to Have

Java experience, Spring Boot experience, Ruby on Rails experience, React experience, AWS experience, Agentic patterns familiarity, RAG familiarity, Workflow orchestration familiarity, Logistics experience, Supply chain experience, Freight technology experience, Pricing systems experience

What You'll Do.

Take end-to-end technical ownership

Drive systems to production

Identify gaps and inefficiencies

Lead effort to resolve problems

Design and build AI-powered features

Implement agent workflows

Implement LLM-backed automation

Drive technical design

Produce well-reasoned proposals

Collaborate with product

Collaborate with design

Collaborate with pricing

Collaborate with operations

Translate domain problems

Build and ship incrementally

Apply learnings from incidents

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Product team; Design team; Pricing team; Operations team

Communication Scope

Explain technical tradeoffs; Design docs; Code reviews

Process & Methodology

Technical ownership

Full Job Description

About Flexport: At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use 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. The Opportunity The Autonomous Freight Systems team is a brand new, AI-first engineering team in San Francisco, building Flexport's client-facing rates platform and self-serve freight booking experience from the ground up. We own two of the highest-leverage surfaces in the Client App: how clients see pricing and how they book freight without manual intervention. As a Senior Engineer, you will own significant technical domains end-to-end, not just features, but whole problem spaces. You will drive the engineering of systems that power rate visibility, pricing intelligence, and AI-assisted booking across ocean, air, and trucking. You don't wait to be told what to build next; you identify the highest-leverage problems, propose solutions, and see them through to production. You will be a technical force multiplier on the team: raising the bar on code quality, helping junior engineers grow, and shipping with a velocity and confidence that comes from deep ownership. This is a ground-floor opportunity to build the platform that moves Flexport from an assisted-sales model to a tech-run one for the long tail of our client base—turning the complexity of global trade into a seamless digi

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