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About the Role
Flexport is building the unified Supply Chain Operating System for global trade. Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) embed directly with enterprise clients to solve high-stakes supply chain challenges by connecting fragmented enterprise data, architecting solutions, and building agentic AI systems that optimize real-world cargo movement.
Responsibilities
- Travel to client sites to map end-to-end supply chain processes, audit legacy systems, uncover hidden financial leaks, and translate complex operational constraints into technical architectures.
- Design and build production solutions spanning customer applications, internal tools, APIs, data pipelines, decision-support systems, and workflow automations connecting directly to client ERPs, WMS, and TMS systems.
- Design and ship production-grade AI applications, agentic LLM workflows, and decision engines.
- Apply optimization algorithms and analytical methods to real-world logistics challenges.
- Drive high-velocity deployment sprints, taking solutions from discovery and architecture to live production deployment, operator adoption, and verified hard-dollar ROI measurement.
- Partner closely with Flexport core Product and Platform Engineering teams to turn custom, field-tested client builds into reusable platform capabilities.
- Work side-by-side with frontline logistics teams to validate code in live operational workflows, train users, and ensure lasting adoption.
- Communicate technical trade-offs, system architecture, and financial outcomes directly to client technical leaders and C-suite executives.
Requirements
- BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical field.
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building customer-facing or mission-critical applications (Python, TypeScript/React, SQL, REST/GraphQL APIs, relational databases, and event-driven architectures).
- Demonstrated ability to build and integrate AI/ML solutions (LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, machine learning models, or mathematical optimization solvers).
- Strong skills in designing data models, pipeline transformations (ETL), API integrations, and event-driven workflows across complex enterprise software architectures.
- Passion for going on-site, whiteboarding complex workflows with executive stakeholders, sitting with frontline operators, and building deep trust with technical and business teams.
- Ability to reason through messy real-world data, imperfect operational dependencies, and economic trade-offs under high-ambiguity conditions.
- High autonomy, self-starter mentality, and a track record of delivering end-to-end projects with measurable financial or operational impact.
- Willingness to travel to customer headquarters and logistics sites as needed to work directly on the operational frontline.
Skills
- Python
- TypeScript/React
- SQL
- REST/GraphQL APIs
- Relational databases
- Event-driven architectures
- LLM orchestration
- Agentic workflows
- Machine learning models
- Mathematical optimization solvers
- Data models
- Pipeline transformations (ETL)
- API integrations
- Global supply chain
- Ocean/air freight
- Customs compliance
- Warehousing
- Inventory management
- Trade financing
- Operations Research
- Linear programming
- Network optimization
- Route planning
- Queueing theory
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Onsite
- Travel
Experience Level
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
Education Level
- BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience
Salary/Compensations
- $183,000—$230,000 USD
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Medical
- Dental
- Flexible time off
About the Company
- Flexport believes global trade can move the human race forward, with a mission to make global commerce easy and accessible.
- Shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people.
- Companies of all sizes use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year.
- Playing a pivotal role in how goods move around the world, especially during recent global supply chain crises.
- Supported by top investors who believe in the mission, solutions, and people.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.