Software Engineer III
About The Position
C.H. Robinson is seeking a Software Engineer III on their Bots & Quoting Automation team. This role will support customer quoting automation, including API integrations, web scraping, and email automation for thousands of customers. The primary focus will be on selecting optimal solutions, then maintaining, implementing, and monitoring them. The team is increasingly using LLM-powered solutions for customization and generalized solutions, and the engineer will work directly on applying these new tools to help build a workforce that combines traditional software, AI/ML-powered software, AI agents, and humans to efficiently handle fractured and varied logistics processes for all customers. This role can only be based in Minnesota, Chicago, or Kansas City.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience collaborating in a team environment shipping software (Python)
- Experience with automation and/or human computer-interaction (HCI) principles & design
- AI Native Programming – you both make use of tools like copilot and think about when to integrate LLMs into systems
- Proficient creating applications and features in object-oriented and functional programming environments
- Working experience with database objects in relational databases (ex. MS SQL, Oracle, Postgres) and non-relational databases (ex. MongoDB)
- Proficient with GIT for version control
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience and a high school diploma/GED
Nice To Haves
- Exposure developing containerized applications (Docker)
- Front-End (React) development/design
- Exposure to statistics and machine learning concepts
- Experience building Agentic AI systems that interact with humans
- Web Scraping Experience (ex. Selenium, Playwright)
- You value Systems Thinking: how do different parts of the system interact with each other, queues, software components, agents, etc.
- Experience with monitoring tools (ex. DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Have a growth mindset that is open to giving and receiving feedback
- Able to thrive in a collaborative, creative, dynamic workplace
Responsibilities
- Partner with product managers and principal software engineers to translate requirements into detailed designs
- Partner with data scientists and data analysts to drive performance improvements for our applications
- Proactively troubleshoot applications and identify performance and availability issues providing effective options for resolution
- Tune performance and resolve availability issues of product or service and its dependencies
- Increase code quality through writing unit, integration, and acceptance tests
- Collaborate with other software engineers and teams on code reviews, development infrastructure, and process enhancements
- Grow, push the boundaries and learn new things to apply to our team's work
- Write clean, maintainable Python and JS code
- Participate in AGILE/SCRUM process
- Work directly on a product suite that drives revenue and cost-savings to the company bottom line
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
