Software Engineer II

C.H Robinson is seeking a Software Engineer II on our Robinson Fresh team where you will work with the latest frameworks, languages, and tools available to build world class software that is transforming the logistics industry. You will be challenged to build modern, responsive, and highly scalable systems that are accelerating commerce through the world's most powerful supply chain platform; Navisphere. You will also drive new development on our proprietary platforms, Managed Procurement and Replenishment and integrate with 3rd party applications (e.g., Famous). If you are an experienced software engineer who enjoys collaborating with other talented and passionate engineers and working on the world's most complex supply chain solutions, this is the opportunity for you! In this role, you will work closely with the product team to create customer-facing products that solve big problems and delight customers. You will get to know the "why" behind decisions and share ownership of the entire digital value chain, from the decision-making, to shipping great code, to validating business metrics after the release. 

C.H. Robinson solves logistics problems for companies across the globe and across industries, from the simple to the most complex.  In this role, you will support Robinson Fresh, a separate division of CH Robinson, which provides product, transportation and services for a wide variety of customers, like retailers, foodservice, wholesalers, and growers.  Robinson Fresh is a complex and dynamic business.

This role may be located in Eden Prairie, Seattle, Chicago, Kansas City

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and translate high-level customer requirements into detailed designs to solve complex business problems
• Define interfaces and develop code for modules across products or services and may influence or drive architectural changes
• Increase code quality through code reviews and writing unit, integration, and acceptance tests
• Optimize, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability while ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment
• Collaborate with team to define testing strategy and drive quality throughout the engineering lifecycle through unit and integration tests
• Proactively identify performance and availability issues, troubleshoot, provide effective options, and resolve issues in production that could span multiple product areas
• Write code using secure programming patterns and by finding, fixing, and enhancing security in existing applications
• Develop and maintain thorough technical documentation for the product or service
• Estimate for software projects including dependencies, work, time, resources, and skill needs
• Maintain knowledge of emerging technologies
• Adopt established best practices while contributing to the definition of the engineering lifecycle as well as the definition of best practices
• Mentor and coach other software engineers by participating in design and code reviews and share best practices; proactively seek mentorship from others
• Collaborate with leadership to unblock and direct members on the team to successfully deliver high quality software
• Support the thought process of new features coming from Robinson Fresh while advocating for your own ideas based on technical insights

Required Qualifications:

• 3+years of experience developing and implementing commercial software, preferably custom-facing software solutions.
• Experience creating applications and features in an object-oriented environment (ex. C#, .NET Service Stack, .Net Core)
• Experience with database objects in relational databases (ex. MS SQL) including schema design, stored procedure development and performance and optimization techniques
• Experience with non-relational databases (ex. MongoDB, Elastic, Cosmos)
• Experience with HTTP and REST architecture
• Experience with unit, integration, and acceptance testing
• Experience with version control systems (ex. GIT, GitHub, TFS, etc.)
• Experience with CI/CD continuous integration / continuous deployment practices
• Experience with data streaming architecture and frameworks (ex. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ESB)
• Experience with tooling, such as Webpack, SASS, npm, etc.
• Proficiency with React, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience and high school diploma/GED

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in system integration projects
• Experience with transportation, logistics, or business systems
• Proven track record of effectively delivering results in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities
• Possess solid communication skills and strong customer focus
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