Software Engineer II, Autonomous Freight Technology

The Opportunity

Join our engineering team in Bellevue building and enhancing Flexport’s client-facing rates platform and self-serve freight booking experience. You will work alongside experienced engineers and have direct ownership of features that move the company from an assisted-sales model to a tech-run one for the long tail of our client base.

This team owns two of the highest-leverage surfaces in the Client App: how clients see pricing and how they book without manual intervention. Rates sit at the center of every freight decision, and you will build the systems that power rate visibility, quoting, and pricing intelligence across our ocean business. You will also help build the infrastructure that integrates AI-powered automation into the booking flow.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain systems within a microservices architecture that power rate visibility and autonomous booking.
• Own the entire lifecycle of a feature: from database schema design and scalable backend APIs to building React-based frontend applications.
• Support the integration of AI models and automated workflows to make pricing and booking increasingly intelligent.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and design to translate complex business problems into production-ready technical solutions.
• Contribute to code reviews to maintain high quality standards, share knowledge, and mentor peer engineers.
• Build highly available, secure, and distributed systems that scale with global volume.
• Rapidly build and launch products incrementally, leveraging CI/CD best practices and shipping to production dozens of times per day.
• Ensure high quality standards by incorporating metrics, monitoring, and applying learnings from post-mortems.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping production-grade applications.
• Full-Stack Capability: Comfortable owning features end-to-end, working with databases, backend services (Java/Ruby), and frontend frameworks (React).
• Passion for simple, well-tested code that is easy to extend and hard to break.
• Experience or interest in working with AI APIs and building software that leverages machine learning models to automate user tasks.
• 2+ years of design and architecture knowledge and familiarity with object-oriented analysis and design patterns.
• Proficiency with modern programming languages: specifically Java, Ruby, or TypeScript.
• Proficiency with deploying, monitoring, and maintaining production services on cloud infrastructure (AWS).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with elements of our tech stack: Java, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, React, AWS.
• Experience in fintech, pricing engines, or booking systems.
• Experience in logistics, supply chain, or freight technology.
• A bias for action.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.