Engineer III GT – Carrier Shipment

Company Description

About the Company

Expeditors is a Fortune 500 global logistics leader headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. With a worldwide network of over 335+ locations across 100 countries, we employ more than 20,000 trained professionals dedicated to solving the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customized solutions and seamless, integrated information systems.

About the Expeditors Chennai GCC

The Global Capability Center (GCC) in Chennai, India, is a core strategic arm of Expeditors Corporate Headquarters (CHQ) – Information Services.

Today, our thriving hub of 500+ employees is responsible for delivering world-class information services on a global scale. As a vital pillar of the organization, the Chennai GCC drives measurable value for our people, our business, and our global customers.

We are committed to technological excellence and will continue to pioneer innovative services as we grow responsibly in the coming years. Join us and be a part of a strategic team that moves the world.

Job Description

SUMMARY

The Carrier Shipment team is building a strategic, carrier-neutral and contract-neutral platform that serves as the system of record for freight movement execution across the transportation ecosystem. As an Engineer III on the Carrier Shipment team, you will contribute as an experienced engineer who delivers reliable, high-quality outcomes while helping lead the team toward sound technical decisions. This role requires strong hands-on engineering capability across Java-based services, APIs, messaging systems, and Enterprise Cloud Platform, along with active participation in design reviews, solution discussions, code reviews, and production support. Engineer III is expected to influence team execution beyond assigned tasks by improving system design, strengthening operational excellence, supporting peers, and collaborating closely with Technical Product Managers, Architects, and adjacent engineering teams. The ideal candidate brings strong business understanding, technical depth, ownership, and a collaborative mindset to build scalable, reliable, observable, and high-quality software solutions that deliver measurable business value.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the design, development, testing, and maintenance of the Carrier Shipment platform, including Java-based backend services, GraphQL and REST APIs, and event-driven integrations.
• Drive product, design, and architectural discussions to define scalable, reliable, and secure solutions that align with business priorities, platform standards, and long-term technical direction.
• Collaborate with Technical Product Managers, Architects, and partner engineering teams to translate business workflows into technical plans and high-quality software delivery.
• Guide troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution of complex application defects, integration issues, performance bottlenecks, and production incidents.
• Design and maintain integrations with upstream and downstream systems using APIs, messaging platforms, and event-driven architecture patterns that support resilience and scalability.
• Perform and lead code reviews, provide constructive feedback to peers and junior engineers, and uphold coding standards, security requirements, architectural standards, and Engineering Principles.
• Enable CI/CD practices, support deployment automation, improve release quality, and help the team deliver changes to production safely and frequently.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, observability, telemetry, and operational resilience by defining monitoring practices, responding to incidents, and reducing recurring operational friction.
• Mentor engineers in resilient design patterns, operational support practices, Engineering Principles, and effective use of AI-powered tools for code generation, testing, and analysis.
• Lead the evolution of the Carrier Shipment domain model by guiding data modeling, API design, workflow definition, integration planning, and technical decision-making across solution areas.
• Identify and drive automation, modernization, technical debt reduction, security improvements, and engineering productivity initiatives across the platform.

Establish and communicate a near-to-mid-term technical vision for assigned systems, translate that vision into actionable plans, and influence delivery across the team and adjacent engineering groups.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 9+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and supporting enterprise applications.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, software design principles, data structures, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience with Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, and modern backend application development.
• Experience designing, developing, and integrating GraphQL APIs, RESTful services, event-driven solutions, and enterprise system integrations.
• Experience with messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka, Avro, or similar event-driven platforms.
• Experience with Maven, JUnit, Hibernate/JPA, and modern software engineering tools and frameworks.
• Experience with SQL and relational database design, development, and performance optimization.
• Experience writing unit, integration, API, and automated test cases to ensure software quality and reliability.
• Experience enabling or improving CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment practices, and DevOps methodologies.
• Experience using Git, GitHub, Azure DevOps, or similar source control and collaboration platforms.
• Experience applying cloud-native application concepts, observability, monitoring, logging, telemetry, and operational support practices.
• Knowledge of application security principles, including authentication, authorization, OAuth2, JWT, and secure software development practices.
• Experience troubleshooting, diagnosing, and supporting applications in development, testing, and production environments.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional teams.
• Experience actively contributing to technical design reviews, architectural discussions, requirement analysis, and solution design activities.
• Ability to guide technical decisions, support peer engineers, and contribute to team-level delivery, quality, and operational outcomes.
• Experience using AI-powered development tools such as GitHub Copilot or similar engineering productivity tools.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in logistics, transportation, freight movement, or supply chain domains, with the ability to connect technical decisions to business, customer, and operational outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business needs, customer impact, and operational constraints into practical technical direction, delivery priorities, and platform improvements.
• Ability to lead adoption of new technologies, domain concepts, and engineering practices that improve team capability, delivery effectiveness, and platform outcomes.

REPORTING STRUCTURE

• Manager, GT-Consolidate and Plan Carrier Shipment – Carrier Shipment

Additional Information

Expeditors offers excellent benefits:

• Paid Vacation, Holiday, Sick Time
• Health Plan: Medical
• Life Insurance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Training and Personnel Development Program
• Growth opportunities within the company
• Employee Referral Program Bonus