What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer II position at C.H. Robinson?
C.H. Robinson is seeking a Software Engineer II to build modern, responsive, and highly scalable systems that power Navisphere, the world’s most advanced supply chain platform. In this role, you will directly contribute to transforming the logistics industry, driving impactful engineering solutions while continuously improving our culture and processes. As part of the Customer Visibility Engineering team, you will design and maintain mission-critical experiences across search, order and shipment details, ETA generation, and internal/external tracking. These solutions are essential for C.H. Robinson’s partners and customers to track commerce across the globe.
If you are an experienced software engineer who thrives on collaboration, takes pride in creating customer-facing products that solve complex challenges, and is passionate about delivering world-class results, this opportunity is for you!
This role may be located in Minneapolis, Chicago or Kansas City
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The duties and responsibilities of this position consists of, but are not limited to, the following:
· Develop software and design solutions independently to satisfy customer requirements that considers performance and availability
· Partner with engineering product managers and principal software engineers to translate requirements into detailed designs
· Increase code quality through code reviews and writing unit, integration and acceptance tests
· Optimize, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability while ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment
· Tune performance and resolve availability issues of product or service and its dependencies in production
· Develop and maintain thorough technical documentation for features
· Write code using secure programming patterns and by finding, fixing, and enhancing security in existing applications
· Estimate software development effort including identifying dependent teams and developing code to satisfy complex requirements
· Maintain knowledge of emerging technologies
· Mentor and coach other software engineers by participating in design and code reviews and share best practices; proactively seek mentorship from others
· Adopt engineering best practices while contributing to the definition of the engineering lifecycle as well as the definition of best practices
· Other duties or responsibilities as assigned according to the team and/or country specific requirements
Required Qualifications:
· 3+ years of experience developing and implementing commercial software
· 3+ years of experience creating applications and features in an object-oriented environment (ex. C#, .NET, Java)
· Experience with database objects in relational databases (ex. MS SQL, Oracle) or non-relational databases (ex. MongoDB, Elastic, Cosmos)
· Experience with HTTP and REST architecture
· Experience with JavaScript frameworks and libraries (React)
· 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
· 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
Preferred Qualifications:
· Experience in system integration projects or global projects
· Experience with transportation, logistics, or business systems
· Proven track record delivering software in an agile environment
· Experience building cloud native applications and services (ex. Azure, AWS, GCP)
· Experience with data streaming and messaging architecture and frameworks (ex. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ESB)
· Self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision
· Possess solid communication skills and strong customer focus
· A learning and growth mindset that is open to giving and receiving feedback
· Values a diverse and inclusive work environment
Salary : $89,000 - $147,000