Senior Software Engineer

C.H Robinson is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who will act as a technical leader on a software development team. You work closely with engineering product managers, business stakeholders, and other leaders to define, estimate, and design for complex, strategic solutions that delight our customers. You are responsible for driving innovation through leadership, influence and discussions. In addition, the role is also responsible for impacting and continuously improving our engineering process and mentoring other engineers across the organization.

This position is open to candidates located in Minneapolis, Chicago, or Kansas City. In this role, you will engage with your peers from the comfort of your own space, using cutting-edge tools to ignite creativity and deliver impactful results. Enjoy the flexibility and autonomy of a fully remote position, while still being an integral part of our dynamic team.  

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The duties and responsibilities of this position consists of, but are not limited to, the following:

• Analyze and translate high-level customer requirements into detailed designs to solve complex business problems

• Design solutions that align to the long-term plan for a service or product based on deep expertise and customer insights

• Define interfaces and develop code for modules across products or services and influence or drive architectural changes

• Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure; draw from a large base of design patterns, is an expert in available technologies, and is adept at identifying practices that work well

• Identify code across multiple code bases to optimize, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability while ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment

• Lead code reviews across the product or service, understand the root causes of issues, and find ways to resolve them

• Proactively identify performance and availability issues, troubleshoot, provide effective options, and resolve issues in production that could span multiple product areas

• Develop and maintain thorough architectural documentation for the product or service

• Design products or services by using secure programming patterns and finding, fixing, and enhancing security in existing applications; ensure secure best practices are part of design and implementation of new features and applications

• Estimate for projects that span multiple product areas including work, time, resources and skill needs

• Proactively identify technologies or solutions that differ from current technology stack or represent innovative uses of existing technologies

• Construct and deliver proposed solution strategies for potential new technologies and work with architecture to review and approve proposals

• Mentor and coach other software engineers, and proactively seek mentorship from others

• Lead the effort in defining the engineering lifecycle and practices for team and associated teams in partnership with the principal software engineer

• Drive collaboration across multiple teams; find ways accomplish more by enabling others

• Anticipate business needs and present options to leadership and business stakeholders with product managers

• Other duties or responsibilities as assigned according to the team and/or country specific requirements

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience developing and implementing commercial software across several platforms while leveraging a variety of programming languages  

• Experience in owning and delivering projects and results of increasing technical complexity

• Experience with modern development languages (ex. .Net CORE, C#)

• Experience with thin-client development (ex. HTML/CSS, JavaScript, JS frameworks)

• Experience with database objects in relational databases (ex. MS SQL, Oracle) 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 building cloud native applications and services (ex. Azure, AWS, GCP)

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IS, MIS, or other technology