Software Engineer II - Customs Tech (Kotlin & AI)

Flexport; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Catered lunches

Commuting covered

Vacation days

Health insurance

Pension scheme

Equity program

EAP program

Parental leave

Job summary

Flexport is hiring in Amsterdam for software engineers who will shape the future of customs technology. You will help distill complex logistics problems into elegant technical solutions, build scalable systems, and deploy changes rapidly in a fast-paced, global environment.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product managers and partners, hands-on coding, and delivering analytics-driven insights to improve global trade flows.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience writing software.
• Love of simple, well-tested code that is easy to extend and hard to break.
• Ability to convey technical ideas to business partners, product managers, designers and engineers alike.
• Bias for action and problem-solving mindset.
• Desire to develop tooling repertoire; platform is built with Ruby.
• Aptitude for learning quickly.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with business partners and product managers to distill complex business problems into elegant technical solutions.
• Work on systems representing real-world logistics intricacies and cargo movement.
• Build and launch products rapidly and incrementally with frequent production deployments.
• Geek out about shipping, customs regulations and logistics.
• Figure out efficient ways for customers and partners to participate in the process of moving freight across borders.
• Design and build deep, complex integrations with government agencies and partners.
• Automate archaic customs filing processes and save the operations team thousands of phone calls per week.
• Deliver supply chain insights to logistics teams via a world-class analytics experience.
• Create beautiful and efficient domain models for the complex world of freight forwarding.

Skills

3+ years software

Strong engineering

Clear communication

Bias for action

Tooling repertoire

Ruby

Tools

Ruby

Job description

Flexport is hiring in Amsterdam for software engineers who will shape the future of customs technology. You will help distill complex logistics problems into elegant technical solutions, build scalable systems, and deploy changes rapidly in a fast-paced, global environment.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product managers and partners, hands-on coding, and delivering analytics-driven insights to improve global trade flows.