Software Engineer II at Flexport

Department: Engineering, Freight Forwarding Applications

Language

Setup: On-site
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong Province
Type: Full-time
Level: mid
Posted: May 8, 2026

Description

Flexport is hiring an on-site Software Engineer to design and develop highly available, secure distributed systems in a microservice architecture. The role involves building infrastructure solutions, developing logistics-domain systems, collaborating with product and business teams, and shipping products incrementally. Candidates need at least three years of software development experience, two years of design and architecture knowledge, programming-language familiarity, and a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field or equivalent experience.

Required Skills

Microservices
Distributed systems
TypeScript
Terraform
AWS
CI/CD

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
Required Previous Experiences: At least 3 years of software development experience
At least 2 years of design and architecture knowledge
Preferred Qualifications: Preference for simple, well-tested, extensible code
Bias for action
Ability to explain technical ideas to business and engineering stakeholders
Experience building large-scale, high-performance distributed systems
Understanding of performance, load balancing, and operational issues
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools
Basic AWS or equivalent cloud services knowledge
Familiarity with CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and monitoring
Ability to troubleshoot and optimize distributed systems and cloud deployments
Aptitude for learning quickly
Translation Company Name: Flexport

About Flexport

Flexport

global logisticsSan Francisco, CA, US1001-5000

Flexport is building an AI-powered, autonomous platform that runs the entire supply chain, with a mission to make global trade so easy there will be more of it. Its services include AI-enabled freight forwarding, customs brokerage, and fulfillment, while its platform lets users quote, book, and track ocean, air, and ground freight. The company says 13,000 brands ship with it and that it runs operations across 135 countries and 97% of global GDP. Flexport runs 45+ offices worldwide, and its teams speak over 70 languages.