What You'll Be Doing

• Own and evolve the developer platform that powers Flexport engineering.
• Create the best paved paths and self-serve tooling to make the right thing the easy thing.
• Create and support developers with CI/CD pipelines (Buildkit, Github Actions), build tooling (Gradle, Bazel, npm/pnpm/bun, Go and Cargo), and artifact repositories (Artifactory, ECR, github).
• Own and improve the backend and frontend developer experience.
• Steward the GraphQL and gRPC ecosystem to ensure middleware, federation, schema sharing, CLIs, codegen, servers, and clients work smoothly.
• Evolve and integrate IAM solutions and primitives for ease and security.
• Ensure ease of use and understanding of container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS) and observability stack (Openmetrics, Datadog) for engineers.

You Should Have

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, particularly building developer platforms or internal tooling.
• Deep full-stack instincts across backend, frontend pipelines, Kubernetes manifests, and CI configurations.
• Strong product instincts focused on internal users, treating engineers as customers and measuring impact.
• Expertise with CI/CD systems (Github Actions preferred), container orchestration (Kubernetes preferred), multiple build tools, backend-for-frontend (GraphQL), service-to-service communication (gRPC), metrics, and artifact storage.
• Passion for solving tech debt and fixing broken systems, including migrations.
• Independent mindset thriving in ambiguity and proactively finding high-impact problems.
• Excellent communication skills for interviews, design documentation, and team alignment.
• A helpful attitude recognized for unblocking and guiding others.
• A drive to make every engineer productive and confident through your team's work.

Nice to Have

• Experience in data-driven developer experience development using metrics such as DORA.
• Experience with AWS.
• Experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM) at scale, including JWTs, OIDC, and fine-grained authorization.
• Experience with Terraform.

Perks and Benefits

• Opportunity to contribute to a fast-growing company with global impact in a multinational environment.
• Daily catered lunches including vegetarian options, breakfast, snacks, and soft drinks in the office.
• Home-office commute expenses covered for employees living outside Amsterdam.
• 25 vacation days per year based on full-time employment.
• Collective health insurance plan with premiums fully paid by Flexport.
• Defined pension contribution scheme.
• Equity program making every team member a shareholder.
• Employee Assistance Program through Aetna Resources for Living at no cost.
• Parental leave benefits supporting pregnancy, childbirth, and bonding with new child.