Join the team as our new Senior C# Software Engineer - Logistics
India | Logistics
We are looking for a C# engineer to join the Logistics team at Protolabs, where our mission is to provide a single, reliable platform for shipping that the rest of the business builds on. The team is responsible for global shipments and logistics, carrier management, rates, tracking, customs, and enabling our factories and manufacturing partners to ship on our behalf - capabilities that today are spread across multiple services and tools built independently by different teams.
We're consolidating these into a coherent domain, designing new services and integrations while gradually replacing the patchwork, and building foundations that hold up as Protolabs continues to scale globally. You'll ship early, small slices of value while getting the abstractions right for the long term.
What You'll Do:
- Ship business value fast: design, implement, and release thin slices that reduce manual work, improve on-time shipments, increase logistical visibility, and shorten cycle times.
- Streamline operations: automate exception handling and reconciliations, retire legacy scripts/tools, and remove bottlenecks across the order-to-ship flow.
- Build and integrate with services and APIs: expose secure, well-documented endpoints and integrate with eventing systems.
- Make pragmatic architectural calls: design data contracts and integration approaches that balance speed with long-term maintainability.
- Contribute to automated tests, observability, and SLOs to ensure reliability from day one.
- Own end-to-end delivery: discovery, design, build, deploy, monitor, iterate - and handle production issues to keep value flowing.
Deliver Business Value
Architecture & Engineering Foundations
Collaboration & Ownership
What It Takes:
- 6+ years of experience building web applications and backend services, with at least 3 years of experience using C#/ASP.NET in a (micro)services environment.
- Proficiency in C# & Entity Framework for designing, developing, testing, and monitoring production systems.
- Experience with unit and integration testing.
- Experience with SQL and relational databases (like SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.).
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD environments.
- Experience working in an agile team, with excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Comfortable owning delivery end-to-end and communicating progress and production issues clearly to the team.
- Pragmatic and outcome-driven: comfortable shipping early, small slices of value while getting the underlying abstractions right for the long term.
- Reliability-minded, building in observability, testing, and SLOs from day one rather than as an afterthought.
- Motivated to simplify: drawn to consolidating patchwork systems into coherent, scalable foundations.
- Familiarity with integrating with ERP systems.
- Comfort reading and understanding Python and/or Java code.
- Comfort with leveraging AI-assisted development tools.
Technical
Leadership & Collaboration
Mindset
Bonus Points For
Skills Required
- Proficient in C# development
- Designing and building backend services and integrations (APIs, microservices)
- Experience with logistics/shipping systems: carrier management, rates, tracking, customs
- Ability to deliver incremental features while shaping long-term scalable abstractions
Protolabs Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Protolabs and has not been reviewed or approved by Protolabs.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision options are broadly available and described as good to excellent. Additional protections like short- and long-term disability and life insurance bolster the overall package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — A starting PTO allotment plus paid holidays, along with added wellness and volunteer time, is emphasized, with some roles noting PTO growth over tenure. Paid caregiver leave appears in postings and supports flexibility for life events.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting is offered, supporting long-term savings. This foundation is frequently cited alongside core financial benefits as a strong element of total rewards.
Protolabs Insights
What We Do
Protolabs is the world's fastest digital manufacturing source for rapid prototyping and on-demand production. The technology-enabled company produces custom parts and assemblies in as fast as 1 day with automated 3D printing, CNC machining, sheet metal fabrication, and injection molding processes. Our digital approach to manufacturing enables accelerated time to market, reduces development and production costs, and minimizes risk throughout the product life cycle. 3D Printing Our 3D printing service offers a wide selection of materials and technologies to create prototypes and end-use parts with complex geometries and detailed features. With tight process controls, careful design reviews, and extensive quality monitoring, we ensure precise and repeatable 3D-printed parts, every time. CNC Machining We use 3- and 5-axis milling along with turning to machine parts from commercial-grade plastics and metals. Our online quoting system and automated manufacturing process enable us to ship parts within 24 hours, helping customers accelerate development and reduce time to market. Sheet Metal Fabrication Protolabs is an industry leader in quick-turn sheet metal parts for both prototyping and low-volume production. Our digital approach to manufacturing enables us to fabricate sheet metal parts in as fast as 5 days. Additionally, we can support our customers’ development efforts with component assemblies, several finish options, and screen printing. Injection Molding Our injection molding service offers two options—prototyping and on-demand manufacturing—which provide customers a tooling solution that aligns with their project’s requirements. It’s used for quick-turn prototyping, bridge tooling, and low-volume production of up to 10,000+ parts in 15 days or less.
