Flexport
Software Engineer II, Pricing Systems
Flexport, San Francisco, CA
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 $8.6T 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. At a valuation of $8 billion, we're experiencing record growth and 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.
Build the operating system for global trade
Flexport is building the first modern logistics platform to make global trade easier for everyone. We are solving complex problems on a global scale, and disrupting a multi-trillion dollar industry that has remained stubbornly unchanged. We help the world's fastest-growing brands manage their international supply chains, providing a fully-managed service for moving their products between any two places on the planet.
Our platform is built from the ground up, aggregating data from many different sources. We offer hundreds of different data points and our data model is constantly evolving as we continue to build the capabilities required to manage today's complex global supply chains.
About the team:
The Pricing Systems Team is a critical component of the Commerce Organization at Flexport. Our mission is to optimize pricing and cost management strategies through innovative systems, ensuring accurate pricing for all Flexport services while meticulously managing associated costs. Our team is responsible for developing and maintaining two primary systems. One system is a machine learning-based solution designed to optimize the final sale price for each shipment, leveraging historical data, market conditions, and other relevant factors to ensure competitive and profitable pricing. The other system is a sophisticated rule-based solution that manages how Flexport applies charges to each quote and shipment, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and fairness in our pricing structure.
By maximizing revenue and strategically managing charges, we directly contribute to Flexport's financial success and sustainable growth. The Pricing Team's efforts are integral to maintaining Flexport's competitive edge in the market, ensuring that we deliver value to our clients while achieving our business objectives.
***This position requires attendance in the San Francisco, CA office 3 days a week with flexibility to work remotely 2 days per week***
You will:
#LI-Hybrid
Worried about not having any logistics experience?
Don't be! Our mission is to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. That's why it's important to bring people from diverse backgrounds and experiences together with our industry veterans to help move the global logistics industry forward.
We know this industry is complex. That's why we invest in education starting day one with Flexport Academy, a one week intensive onboarding program designed specifically to set every new Flexport employee up for success.
The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range displayed, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and / or training.
The US base salary range for this position: (exclusive of bonus, equity and benefits.)
$147,000-$183,750 USD
At Flexport, our ability to fulfill our mission of making global commerce easy and accessible relies on having a diverse, dedicated and engaged workforce. That is why Flexport is committed to creating and nurturing an environment where anyone can be their authentic self. 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.
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 $8.6T 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. At a valuation of $8 billion, we're experiencing record growth and 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.
Build the operating system for global trade
Flexport is building the first modern logistics platform to make global trade easier for everyone. We are solving complex problems on a global scale, and disrupting a multi-trillion dollar industry that has remained stubbornly unchanged. We help the world's fastest-growing brands manage their international supply chains, providing a fully-managed service for moving their products between any two places on the planet.
Our platform is built from the ground up, aggregating data from many different sources. We offer hundreds of different data points and our data model is constantly evolving as we continue to build the capabilities required to manage today's complex global supply chains.
About the team:
The Pricing Systems Team is a critical component of the Commerce Organization at Flexport. Our mission is to optimize pricing and cost management strategies through innovative systems, ensuring accurate pricing for all Flexport services while meticulously managing associated costs. Our team is responsible for developing and maintaining two primary systems. One system is a machine learning-based solution designed to optimize the final sale price for each shipment, leveraging historical data, market conditions, and other relevant factors to ensure competitive and profitable pricing. The other system is a sophisticated rule-based solution that manages how Flexport applies charges to each quote and shipment, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and fairness in our pricing structure.
By maximizing revenue and strategically managing charges, we directly contribute to Flexport's financial success and sustainable growth. The Pricing Team's efforts are integral to maintaining Flexport's competitive edge in the market, ensuring that we deliver value to our clients while achieving our business objectives.
***This position requires attendance in the San Francisco, CA office 3 days a week with flexibility to work remotely 2 days per week***
You will:
- Work closely with business partners and product managers to distill complex business problems into elegant technical solutions.
- Build highly available, secure, distributed systems in a microservice architecture.
- Tackle difficult and subtle system-level issues, emphasizing simplicity and long-lasting designs. As we extract services out of the monolith, we take pride in untangling legacy code and re-building with composability in mind.
- Design, develop, test and maintain systems that represent the real-world intricacies of logistics entities, such as shipper, client, cargo, document, carrier, container, email etc.
- Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry to work on complex business and technical problems.
- Work closely with business partners and product managers to distill complex business problems into elegant technical solutions.
- Build and launch products rapidly and incrementally. We ship to production dozens of times per day.
- Ensure our products maintain a high-quality bar. We believe in anticipating issues by obsessing over metrics and applying key learnings from post-mortems to all our services.
- 3+ years of experience writing software, and a strong engineering background.
- 2+ years of design and architecture knowledge as well as familiarity with object-oriented analysis and design patterns (OOA/OOD)
- Knowledge of at least one programming language such as Ruby, C, C++, Java, or Kotlin
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience
#LI-Hybrid
Worried about not having any logistics experience?
Don't be! Our mission is to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. That's why it's important to bring people from diverse backgrounds and experiences together with our industry veterans to help move the global logistics industry forward.
We know this industry is complex. That's why we invest in education starting day one with Flexport Academy, a one week intensive onboarding program designed specifically to set every new Flexport employee up for success.
The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range displayed, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and / or training.
The US base salary range for this position: (exclusive of bonus, equity and benefits.)
$147,000-$183,750 USD
At Flexport, our ability to fulfill our mission of making global commerce easy and accessible relies on having a diverse, dedicated and engaged workforce. That is why Flexport is committed to creating and nurturing an environment where anyone can be their authentic self. 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.