Software engineer II, Platform

Flexport; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Catered lunches

Commuting covered

25 vacation days

Health insurance

Pension plan

Equity program

Employee assistance program

Parental leave

Job summary

Flexport in Amsterdam is seeking a Software Engineer II for the PSI team to own developer platform projects and improve tooling used by hundreds of engineers daily.

You will build paved paths and self-serve tooling, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and enhance the GraphQL/gRPC ecosystem while ensuring secure, scalable IAM and observability across services. Join a collaborative, growth-oriented workplace.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of software engineering experience, ideally on developer platforms or internal tooling.
• Full-stack curiosity across backend and frontend build pipelines, Kubernetes manifests, and CI configs.
• Hands-on with CI/CD, container orchestrators, build tooling (multiple languages), GraphQL, gRPC, metrics, and artifact storage.
• Ability to understand problems, ask the right questions, and align work with team goals.
• Care for internal users and ownership of projects from idea to production.
• Willingness to fix tech debt and support migrations under guidance.
• Strong communication: design docs, stakeholder updates, and peer interviews.
• Helpful attitude to unblock teammates and foster collaboration.
• Growth mindset toward broader scope and impact.

Responsibilities

• Own projects within the platform and help evolve the developer experience for Flexport engineers.
• Build paved paths and self-serve tooling to make the right thing the easy thing.
• Develop and support CI/CD pipelines (Buildkite, GitHub Actions) and build tooling (Gradle, Bazel, npm/pnpm/bun, Go/Cargo).
• Improve backend/frontend developer experience through scoped projects.
• Contribute to GraphQL and gRPC ecosystem: middleware, federation, codegen, servers/clients.
• Contribute to IAM solutions for secure defaults and easy access.
• Help engineers use container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS) and observability stack (Datadog/OpenMetrics).
• Gather internal feedback and translate into clear problem statements; prioritize work with the team.

Skills

2-5 years

Full-stack curiosity

CI/CD systems

Kubernetes

Build tooling

GraphQL

gRPC

IAM concepts

Container orchestration

Observability stack

Tools

Gradle

Bazel

npm/pnpm/bun

Go

Cargo

Artifactory

ECR

GitHub Actions

Job description

About Flexport:

At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. Thats why its our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. Were shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes-from emerging brands to Fortune 500s- use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year.

The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us.

Software Engineer ll: Platform

Every engineer at Flexport ships code that moves real freight across 112 countries. The faster and safer they can do that, the faster the worlds supply chains move. The PSI (Platform, Security & Infrastructure) team makes this possible: we build the paved path and tooling that hundreds of engineers around the world rely on every day to ship.

As a Software Engineer II, youll own well-scoped projects within our developer platform, typically working with a small group of teammates. Youll talk to the engineers who use our tools, dogfood the platform, and build a solid understanding of the problems and goals behind your work. Then youll design and ship improvements that remove friction. Youll get support and guidance from senior engineers on the team while building real ownership of your projects from start to finish.

What Youll Do

Youll own projects within, and help evolve, the developer platform that powers Flexport engineering. That means:

• Building paved paths and self-serve tooling that make the right thing the easy thing.
• Building and supporting CI/CD pipelines (Buildkite, GitHub Actions), build tooling (Gradle, Bazel, npm/pnpm/bun, Go and Cargo) and artifact repositories (Artifactory, ECR, GitHub).
• Improving the backend and frontend developer experience through projects you scope and deliver.
• Contributing to our GraphQL and gRPC ecosystem: middleware, federation and schema sharing, CLIs, codegen, servers and clients.
• Contributing to our IAM solutions and primitives so that things are easy and secure by default.
• Helping engineers use and understand our container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS) and observability stack (OpenMetrics, Datadog), so they can run, understand and debug their services.
• Gathering feedback from internal users, turning it into clear problem statements, and working with your team to prioritize whats worth building.

You Should Have

• 2-5 years of software engineering experience, ideally including time spent on developer platforms, internal tooling, or infrastructure that other engineers depend on.
• Full-stack curiosity: youre comfortable in a backend service and are building comfort across frontend build pipelines, Kubernetes manifests, and CI configuration.
• Hands-on experience with some of: a CI/CD system (GitHub Actions preferred), a container orchestrator (Kubernetes preferred), build tooling (more than one language is a plus), backend-for-frontend (GraphQL preferred), service-to-service communication (gRPC preferred), metrics, or artifact storage. You dont need all of them. You should be ready to learn the rest.
• A good grasp of problems and goals: you ask the right questions, understand who youre building for and why, and can explain how your work connects to broader team goals.
• Care for internal users: you treat engineers as customers, gather feedback, and check whether what you shipped actually helped.
• Ownership of your projects: you take a project from idea to production rollout, keep stakeholders informed, and raise risks early.
• Pride in fixing whats broken: you tackle tech debt in your area and help carry out migrations, with guidance on larger or cross-team efforts.
• Good communication: you can write a clear design doc for your project, take part in developer interviews, and keep your teammates up to date.
• A helpful attitude: youre the person who gets people unblocked and makes their work easier.
• Growth mindset: you seek out feedback, learn quickly, and are building toward broader scope and impact over time.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to data-driven DevX development using metrics such as DORA.
• Experience with AWS.
• Familiarity with Identity and Access Management (IAM) concepts such as JWTs, OIDC and fine-grained authorization.
• Experience with Terraform.

How We Work

• We come to the office 3 times a week to hang out, whiteboard, and ship together.
• We have the latest hardware and software, including frontier AI models on day one.
• Were agile, but not dogmatic. Teams decide how they work best.

Why This Role Is Special

• Real leverage: improvements you ship are used by hundreds of engineers and thousands of deploys a day.
• Meaningful ownership: you own your projects end to end, from developer research to production rollout to measuring impact.
• Room to grow: youll work alongside senior engineers, get regular feedback, and build the skills to take on larger-scope work.

Whats in it for you:

• An opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest-growing companies, where youll have the chance to create a global impact while being a part of a thriving multinational environment.
• Daily catered lunches incl. vegetarian options, breakfast, snacks and soft drinks available in our office on daily basis.
• Commute expenses: Flexport will cover home-office commuting costs for employees living outside of Amsterdam.
• 25 working days as vacation days based on full time employment.
• Health insurance: Flexport offers a collective health insurance plan including a basic package and any available additional packages. Your monthly premium is fully paid by Flexport.
• A defined pension contribution scheme.
• Equity program: every team member becomes a shareholder, aligning our success with yours. As a private company in a multi-trillion dollar industry, you have a direct stake in our collective growth and success.
• Employee Assistance Program through Aetna Resources for Living: Flexport provides an employer-sponsored program at no cost to you and your household members.
• Parental leave benefit: Flexport is here to support you and your families in one of the most important times in life - the birth of a child! Our parental leave program allows both mothers and partners to take time off from work for pregnancy, childbirth, and to bond with your new child.

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Commitment to Equal Opportunity

At Flexport, our ability to fulfill our mission of making global commerce easy and accessible relies on having a diverse, dedicated and engaged workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, health status, marital and family status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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