Senior Software Engineer, Web & Logistics Optimization

C.H. Robinson; Alton (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

C.H. Robinson is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Plan/Optimizer team within Technology. The role focuses on building an intelligent planning platform to optimize freight movement, balancing cost, service, and capacity at scale.

You will develop platforms integrating optimization, automation, business rules, and operational intelligence to generate actionable shipment plans. The candidate will work on distributed systems and decisioning problems, collaborating with product

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS, or related field; or 4 years of equivalent work experience.
• 6+ years of experience designing and implementing large-scale software products or distributed systems.
• Experience with modern development languages and frameworks (ex. .NET Core, C#).
• Experience designing and developing cloud-native applications and services (ex. Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases (ex. SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Cosmos DB, Elasticsearch).
• Experience with streaming platforms and integration technologies (ex. Kafka, Event Hubs, ESB).
• Experience establishing testing strategies, acceptance criteria, and reviewing automated tests.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment practices, and modern DevOps principles.
• Experience delivering end-to-end features including backend services, APIs, integrations, and operational tooling.
• Experience designing optimization, planning, scheduling, routing, allocation, or decision-support systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop platforms and services that evaluate constraints, cost, service levels, capacity, and customer objectives to generate actionable shipment plans.
• Build APIs, event-driven services, and workflow orchestration for enterprise integration across the organization.
• Partner with Product Managers, Supply Chain Engineers, Data Scientists, Architects, and stakeholders to translate customer needs into scalable solutions.
• Design systems balancing configurability, maintainability, and performance for diverse customer planning scenarios.
• Stay current on distributed systems, optimization technologies, AI, automation, and modern software practices.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap and architectural direction of optimization, planning, and workflow orchestration services.

Skills

C#/.NET

Distributed systems

Azure/AWS/GCP

CI/CD

Databases SQL/NoSQL

Kafka

AI/Automation

Logistics domain

BS/Equivalent experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE or related

4 years of equivalent experience

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

SQL Server

Oracle

MongoDB

Cosmos DB

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Job description

C.H. Robinson is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Plan/Optimizer team within Technology. The role focuses on building an intelligent planning platform to optimize freight movement, balancing cost, service, and capacity at scale.

You will develop platforms integrating optimization, automation, business rules, and operational intelligence to generate actionable shipment plans. The candidate will work on distributed systems and decisioning problems, collaborating with product