Senior Software Engineer

C.H. Robinson•Eden Prairie, MN

5d•$131,800 - $222,500

About The Position

C.H. Robinson is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Plan/Optimizer team within Technology. The team builds an intelligent planning platform that helps customers determine optimal ways to move freight through their networks. The role develops platforms and services combining optimization, automation, business rules, and operational intelligence to generate actionable shipment plans at scale. These systems evaluate transportation decisions while balancing cost, service, utilization, constraints, and customer-specific objectives. The technology powers Navisphere Optimizer and other planning capabilities that help customers minimize transportation spend, maximize trailer utilization, reduce miles traveled, and improve supply chain performance. The engineer will design, build, and operate cloud-native planning and optimization services, contribute to technical roadmaps and architecture, and develop APIs, event-driven services, and workflow orchestration. The role works closely with product, supply chain, data science, architecture, and business teams, and provides technical leadership through mentoring and engineering reviews. The position can be based only in Minnesota, Illinois, or Kansas City.

Requirements

At least 6 years of experience designing and implementing large-scale software products or distributed systems spanning multiple applications and services.
Experience leading technical design and delivering complex initiatives from concept through production.
Experience developing proof of concepts and turning innovative ideas into scalable production solutions.
Experience with modern development languages and frameworks, such as .NET Core and C#.
Experience designing and developing cloud-native applications and services, such as on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
Experience with relational and non-relational databases, such as SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Cosmos DB, or Elasticsearch.
Experience with microservices, CQRS, event-driven architectures, asynchronous messaging, and eventually consistent systems.
Experience with streaming platforms and integration technologies, such as Kafka, Event Hubs, or ESB.
Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and event-driven integration patterns.
Experience establishing testing strategies and acceptance criteria, and reviewing automated tests.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment practices, and modern DevOps principles.
Experience with version control systems such as Git or GitHub.
Experience delivering end-to-end features, including backend services, APIs, integrations, and operational tooling.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including evaluating tradeoffs and navigating complex technical challenges.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including explaining complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to deliver results in fast-paced environments while balancing priorities and ambiguity.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS, or a related field; alternatively, 4 years of equivalent work experience and a high school diploma or GED.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing optimization, planning, scheduling, routing, allocation, or decision-support systems.
Experience building highly automated, high-volume workflows where human intervention is primarily exception-based.
Experience with rules engines, decision engines, workflow orchestration platforms, or configurable business process frameworks.
Experience designing systems that balance cost, service, utilization, capacity, and operational constraints.
Experience modernizing complex legacy platforms through incremental migration and domain-driven architecture approaches.
Experience with transportation, logistics, supply chain, planning, or operational technology platforms.
Experience developing configurable and metadata-driven platforms that support diverse customer requirements without custom development.
Experience integrating optimization engines, planning services, AI models, or advanced analytics into production systems.
Experience building AI-enabled applications, agent-based workflows, intelligent automation solutions, or LLM-powered capabilities.
Experience applying AI technologies in enterprise environments with attention to reliability, observability, governance, and security.
Curiosity, a continuous-learning mindset, and willingness to experiment with emerging technologies while maintaining engineering discipline.
Strong customer focus and ability to connect technical investments to measurable business outcomes.
Ability to influence technical direction and drive alignment across teams without direct authority.
Commitment to fostering an inclusive, collaborative, growth-oriented engineering culture.

Responsibilities

Design and build the next generation of C.H. Robinson's planning and optimization platform for intelligent freight planning at scale.
Contribute to the technical roadmap and architectural direction of optimization, planning, and workflow orchestration services.
Design, develop, and operate resilient, scalable, highly available cloud-native services for supply chain planning.
Build services that evaluate transportation constraints, business rules, cost, service levels, capacity, and customer objectives to generate shipment plans.
Develop proof of concepts to evaluate emerging technologies and validate approaches to optimization, automation, and intelligent decisioning.
Develop APIs, event-driven services, and workflow orchestration capabilities that integrate planning solutions across the enterprise.
Partner with Product Managers, Supply Chain Engineers, Data Scientists, Architects, and business stakeholders to translate customer needs into scalable solutions.
Design systems that balance configurability, maintainability, and performance across customer planning scenarios.
Mentor and influence engineers through technical leadership, design and code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
Evaluate and leverage AI-assisted development tools, intelligent automation, and emerging technologies to improve engineering productivity and platform capabilities.
Stay current with developments in distributed systems, optimization, AI, automation, and modern software engineering.

Benefits

Three medical plans, including prescription drug coverage.
Enhanced fertility benefits.
Flexible Spending Accounts.
Health Savings Account, including employer contribution.
Dental and vision coverage.
Basic and supplemental life insurance.
Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
Paid observed holidays.
Two paid floating holidays for U.S. hourly employees.
Flexible Time Off for U.S. salaried employees, with no accruals or caps; PTO is offered to other employees in the U.S. and Canada.
Paid parental leave.
Paid time off to volunteer in the community.
Charitable Giving Match Program.
401(k) with 6% company matching.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Career development, networking, and team-building opportunities.