Senior Software Engineer

C.H. Robinson • Eden Prairie, MN

3d

About The Position

C.H. Robinson is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Plan/Optimizer team within Technology. The team builds an intelligent planning platform that helps customers determine how to move freight through their networks. The engineer will develop optimization, automation, business-rule, and operational-intelligence platforms and services that generate actionable shipment plans at scale. These systems assess transportation decisions while balancing cost, service, utilization, constraints, and customer-specific objectives. The technology supports Navisphere Optimizer and other planning capabilities that help customers reduce transportation spend and miles traveled, improve trailer utilization, and strengthen supply chain performance.

The role involves designing and operating cloud-native planning and optimization services, shaping technical roadmaps and architecture, and building APIs, event-driven services, and workflow orchestration capabilities. The engineer will partner with product, supply chain, data science, architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions, and will provide technical leadership through mentoring, design and code reviews, and knowledge sharing. 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 the ability to evaluate tradeoffs and navigate 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 multiple priorities and ambiguity.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS, or a related field; or four 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 competing objectives such as 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, 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 appropriate attention to reliability, observability, governance, and security.
• Demonstrated curiosity, continuous learning, 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 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 technologies and validate new approaches to optimization, automation, and intelligent decisioning.
• Develop APIs, event-driven services, and workflow orchestration capabilities for enterprise integration.
• 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 reviews, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Evaluate and use AI-assisted development tools, intelligent automation, and emerging technologies to improve engineering productivity and platform capabilities.
• Stay current on advancements in distributed systems, optimization, AI, automation, and 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.
• 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.
• Paid Time Off for other U.S. and Canadian employees.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior