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# Software Engineer II

- **Company:** Flexport
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Software Design Documents, Middleware, Github, Gradle, Identity and Access Management, OpenID, Software Engineering, Datadog, Backend, Kubernetes, Data Analytics, Npm(Software), Graphql, Front End Software Development, Terraform, Artifactory
- **Published:** October 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/flexport/jobs/8256564

## About the Role

* 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: you're 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 don't 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 you're 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 what's 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: you're 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.

## Description

You'll 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 what's worth building., * 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: you'll work alongside senior engineers, get regular feedback, and build the skills to take on larger-scope work.