Senior Software Engineer

C.H. Robinson•Remote, MN

20h•$113,000 - $254,200

About The Position

The Senior Software Engineer will analyze and translate high-level customer requirements into detailed designs to solve complex business problems. This role involves designing solutions that align with the long-term plan for a service or product, defining interfaces, and developing code for modules across products or services. The engineer will ensure consistent, usable, and maintainable test infrastructure, drawing from design patterns and expertise in available technologies. Responsibilities include optimizing and refactoring code for performance and maintainability, leading code reviews, proactively identifying and resolving production issues, and developing architectural documentation. The role also requires designing secure programming patterns, enhancing security in existing applications, estimating projects, and identifying new technologies. Additionally, the Senior Software Engineer will mentor other engineers, lead the definition of engineering lifecycle and practices, drive collaboration across teams, and anticipate business needs to present options to leadership and stakeholders.

Requirements

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#, Java)
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)

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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
Other duties or responsibilities as assigned according to the team and/or country specific requirements

Benefits

Three medical plans which include Prescription drug coverage
Enhanced Fertility benefits
Flexible Spending Accounts
Health Savings Account (including employer contribution)
Dental and Vision
Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
Paid observed holidays
2 paid floating holidays for U.S. hourly employees
Flexible Time Off (FTO) offered to U.S. salaried employees — no accruals and no caps. Paid Time Off (PTO) offered to all other employees in the U.S. and Canada
Paid parental leave
Paid time off to volunteer in your community
Charitable Giving Match Program
401(k) with 6% company matching
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Plus a broad range of career development, networking, and team-building opportunities