Senior Software Engineer

Location: Shanghai China

Remote Type: In Office

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

C.H. Robinson is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our software development team. In this key position, you will work closely with engineering product managers and business stakeholders to define, estimate, design, and develop for complex solutions that delight our customers. In addition, you are responsible for guiding the team’s engineering process, mentoring other software engineers and driving innovation.

At C.H. Robinson, we believe that in-person collaboration is key to driving innovation and achieving success. In this role, you will work on-site with your peers five days a week, fostering creativity and producing impactful results through face-to-face interactions. Experience the full benefits of teamwork and immediate collaboration in a vibrant and engaging workplace.

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

Required Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IS, MIS, or other technology degree or minimum 4 years of equivalent work experience and high school diploma/GED

• Minimum 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)

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred:

• Experience working on large-scale open source or inner source software development

• Experience in system integration projects or global projects

• Experience with data streaming architecture and frameworks (Kafka, ESB)

• Possess solid communication skills and strong customer focus

• Effective collaborator, experienced in creating technical partnerships across teams

• Able to learn and understand the various technical domains across the enterprise and able to communicate complex technical and business concepts across the enterprise and various business stakeholders

• Experience directly or indirectly leading high performing teams with the ability to assess and grow software engineering talent

• Proven track record of effectively delivering results in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities

• Values a diverse and inclusive work environment

Equal Opportunity

C.H. Robinson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to a workplace and performance culture that reflects the strengths of our worldwide marketplace. We value unique experiences and diverse backgrounds of our people within our company, our business relationships, and our communities. We’re committed to providing an inclusive environment, free from harassment and discrimination, where all employees feel welcomed, valued and respected.

Your Health, Wealth and Self
Your total wellbeing is the foundation of our business, and our benefits support your financial, family and personal goals. We provide additional company benefits plan that matter to you most, including life and medical insurance/ Critical illness, accident death and disability Insurance, Paid time off (PTO), Paid Sick Leave, Holiday Allowance and among others, the opportunity to prosper in a Fortune 500 company.