As a Software Engineer on CH Robinson's Global Forwarding team, you be responsible for delivering solutions to our business users to help them efficiently and effectively manage their global freight network. In this role, you will be responsible for evaluating requirements, estimating tasks, and writing code that meets performance, quality, business, and security objectives. You will collaborate with other software engineers, product managers, and quality assurance analysts to solve complex problems, improve our software development processes and standards, and keep up with emerging technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other software engineers to design software solutions of limited complexity that support business processes requiring little or no architectural changes to technology
• Satisfy requirements of limited complexity by implementing code and collaborating with engineering product manager(s) and peers
• Write code using secure programming patters and by finding, fixing, and enhancing security in existing applications
• Design and execute effective tests to validate unit and functional components
• Optimize, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability while ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment
• Identify performance and availability issues of stand-alone applications and help to debug for a single application
• Learn and adopt coding standards and generally accepted best practices
• Develop and maintain thorough technical documentation for features
• Estimate time for own application development effort
• Proactively seek mentorship from other engineers and provide feedback and ideas for improving team-oriented behaviors
• Follow and provide feedback on the engineering lifecycle while abiding by established best practices and collaborating on new topics
• Other duties or responsibilities as assigned according to the team and/or country specific requirements

Required Qualifications:

• Coursework or experience in one or more of the following areas: object-oriented design, relational database design, web development, mobile app development, desktop application development and high school diploma/GED
• Experience working with a team, successfully delivering on a project
• Experience using (or exposure with) languages such as .NET/C#, JavaScript, Java

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IS, MIS, or other technology degree
• 1 year of work (or internship) experience within a technology team
• Understanding of basic database concepts, normalization, and transactions
• Understanding of basic source control systems (ex. GitHub)
• Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• A learning and growth mindset that is open to giving and receiving feedback
• Values a diverse and inclusive work environment

Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer

C.H. Robinson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We believe in equality for all and celebrate the diversity of our employees, customers and communities. We believe this increases creativity and innovation, drives business growth and enables engaged and thriving teams. We're committed to providing an inclusive environment, free from harassment and discrimination, where all employees feel welcomed, valued and respected.

Affirmative Action Employer/EOE/M/F/Disabled/Veteran

Benefits

Your Health, Wealth and Self

Your total wellbeing is the foundation of our business, and our benefits support your financial, family and personal goals. We provide the top-tier benefits that matter to you most, including:

• Two medical plans (including a High Deductible Health Plan)
• 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 and floating holidays
• Paid time off (PTO)
• 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
• Plus a broad range of career development, networking, and team-building opportunities

Dig in to our full list of benefits on OUR CULTURE page.