Senior Developer - Document Management, IS Operational Experience

Expeditors

  • Seattle, WA
  • $140,000-200,000 per year
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 6 days ago
Company Description“We're not in the shipping business; we're in the information business” -Peter Rose, Expeditors FounderGlobal supply chain management is what we do, but at the heart of Expeditors you will find professionalism, leadership, and a friendly environment, all of which foster an innovative, customer service-based approach to logistics.
  • 18,000 trained professionals
  • 350+ locations worldwide across 60+ countries
  • Fortune 500
  • Globally unified systems
Job DescriptionOur internally developed software is built to provide efficiency and functionality to our operations personnel in branch offices and warehouses, allowing Expeditors to provide outstanding customer service, competitive rates, and differentiating technologies for logistics management. Our systems are an integrated suite of collaborative supply chain applications that are designed to assist our operations teams and customers in managing international and domestic shipping challenges.The document management team focuses on building and sustaining the digital capture, storage, movement, and strategic use of documents related to shipments, supply chain, customs, and accounting, and we have a lot of untapped potential as it relates to automating business processes through semantic understanding of documents that need significant engineering effortThe team is accelerating its efforts to modernize our document systems, including moving functionality to the cloud and utilizing AI to intelligently process documents. This position will provide technical leadership for these efforts, especially in the area of cloud technologies.What you will be doing:
  • Playing a technical leadership role on a collaborative agile development team, responsible for the design and production of mission critical, enterprise-scale applications
  • Translating requirements into system design specifications and the implementation of systems throughout the entire software development life cycle
  • Developing a thorough understanding of the logistics business domain
  • Maintaining an awareness of evolving technologies in use by other teams at Expeditors and in the technology industry as a whole
  • Collaborating with other senior developers and architects across the Information Services organization
  • Mentoring and coaching others on the team, especially in areas related to cloud design and development
This position is on-site and will reside in the greater Seattle, WA. area at one of the following locations depending on availability. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate. Relocation assistance is not offered for this position.
  • Downtown Seattle
  • Federal Way
  • Lynnwood
  • Bellevue (Factoria)
QualificationsMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field of study, or equivalent experience
  • At least ten years in a software development role in a team environment
  • Demonstrated Java coding abilities in large scale applications
  • A drive to modernize existing systems and processes, while supporting current-gen products
  • Demonstrated understanding of distributed system design patterns at scale, as well as delivery and operations
  • Experience building and operating systems using DevSecOps/GitOps tools and processes (Gitlab CI/CD/Github+Actions, operational monitoring using Grafana/etc)
  • Significant experience building applications utilizing cloud technologies, ideally Azure-related services
  • Demonstrated knowledge and experience with:
  • Object oriented analysis and design
  • Microservice design and operations, ideally with containers & Kubernetes
  • Messaging systems such as Apache Kafka
  • Relational database concepts and SQL
  • RESTful and GraphQL API's
  • Customer service-oriented attitude and great time-management skills
  • Ability to communicate effectively with IT and Business stakeholders
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Agile/SAFe experience, including continuous improvement of team processes
  • Familiarity with modern document pipelines and processes, including parsing, understanding, and classification and semantic understanding
  • Front-end development practices, with Javascript/Typescript/CSS and modern frameworks
  • Spring, Spring Boot, and dependency injection
  • Web-based and service-based architectures and deployment paradigms
  • Linux Operating systems including RedHat
  • Interest and capability diving into other languages (Python, Delphi, etc.)
Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not transfer or sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (such as an H-1B visa) for this opportunity.Additional InformationExpected base salary: $140,000 to $200,000May be eligible for bonus following first year of continuous employment in position.Expeditors offers competitive benefits to all full-time employees including:
  • Paid vacation
  • Holidays (10)
  • Flexible Days (2)
  • Paid Sick Time (accrual rate of 1 hour of sick time per 30 hours paid)
  • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with employer match
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental & Vision Coverage
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Life and Disability Insurance
  • Paid Parental Leave (additional eligibility criteria)
  • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DC FSA)
  • Commuter Benefit
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Training and Personnel Development Program
  • Educational Assistance and Reimbursement
  • Position is full time (40 hours per week) Monday through Friday
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Expeditors