Senior Engineer, Global Technology Americas Capabilities

Why This Role Matters 

As a Senior Engineer you will provide technical leadership in the design development implementation and operation of technology solutions that support Americas supply chain and logistics operations. You will influence technical direction drive engineering excellence and help deliver reliable scalable and maintainable systems that create long-term business value. 

Team and Technology 

You will work closely with engineers architects managers product teams and business stakeholders to deliver business capabilities on a modern enterprise cloud platform. The team develops Angular frontends and Java Spring Boot services and applies AI across the engineering lifecycle including AI-enabled solution design coding agents agentic workflows automation and operational excellence practices. 

What Success Looks Like 

• Lead the design delivery and production support of complex technology solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. 
• Establish reusable AI and agentic workflow patterns that improve engineering productivity reliability and operational effectiveness. 
• Partner across engineering and business teams to deliver strategic capabilities while advancing engineering standards and practices. 
• Within the first 1218 months lead 23 significant capabilities from design through production and demonstrate measurable business reliability or productivity improvements. 

Key Areas of Impact 

Technical Depth and Delivery

• Lead the design development implementation and support of complex technology solutions across modern cloud-based platforms. 
• Drive AI-enabled engineering practices automation CI/CD improvements and operational excellence initiatives. 

Architectural Scale

• Design scalable reliable and maintainable systems while evaluating technical tradeoffs across platforms and dependencies. 
• Design and orchestrate agent-based workflows that integrate agents skills tools and human oversight. 

Team Collaboration Scale

• Collaborate with engineering teams architects product partners and business stakeholders to deliver shared outcomes. 
• Mentor engineers through technical guidance knowledge sharing and engineering best practices. 

Influence and Advocacy 

• Champion engineering excellence operational best practices and technical solutions that improve quality and customer outcomes. 
• Communicate technical recommendations risks and strategy to both technical and non-technical audiences. 

Scope of Vision

• Translate business objectives into scalable technical solutions and execution plans with a long-term perspective. 
• Identify opportunities to modernize systems reduce technical debt and improve operational performance. 

Scale of Business Understanding and Impact

• Apply business and customer needs to technical prioritization and solution design decisions. 
• Deliver solutions that improve customer experience operational effectiveness and business outcomes. 

This position is on-site and will reside in one of the areas listed below depending on availability. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate. Relocation assistance is not offered for this position.

• Atlanta GA 
• Dallas TX 
• Detroit MI 
• Laredo TX 
• Newark NJ 

Qualifications :

Qualifications for Success 

Required

• 7 years of professional software engineering experience with strong fundamentals in architecture APIs and integration testing security observability and maintainable code. 
• Advanced hands-on proficiency in Java and Spring Boot and experience building enterprise applications with Angular. 
• Experience building AI-enabled solutions in production including RAG evaluation guardrails and responsible AI practices. 
• Experience using coding agents and AI-assisted development tools including context management and validation of AI-generated output. 
• Experience designing agentic workflows with task decomposition tool integration human-in-the-loop review approval processes and auditability. 
• Experience automating engineering and operational workflows including CI/CD pipelines automated testing data or process pipelines and monitoring. 
• Bachelors masters or doctoral degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering Business or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 
• Current role-based Microsoft Azure certification or the ability to obtain one within 12 months of hire. 

Preferred

• Experience building agents and agentic workflows using Azure AI Foundry MCP or comparable agent platforms. 
• Experience with GraphQL APIs and event-driven architectures such as Kafka. 
• Experience deploying containerized applications on Kubernetes using GitOps and infrastructure as code. 
• Python experience for automation data integration or AI workloads. 
• Experience in supply chain logistics customs or freight forwarding. 
• Experience with Agentic AI development processes and practices. 

Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not transfer or sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (such as an H-1B visa) for this opportunity.

Additional Information :

Compensation and Benefits 

Base Salary:  $142000 - $214000

(The listed salary range is representative of the Newark market. Compensation may vary for positions based in Atlanta GA Dallas TX Detroit MI or Laredo TX.)

Benefits: Expeditors offers competitive benefits to all full-time employees including:

• Paid vacation
• Holidays (10)
• Flexible Days (2)
• Paid Sick Time (accrual rate of 1 hour of sick time per 30 hours paid)
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with employer match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Medical Prescription Drug Dental & Vision Coverage
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave (additional eligibility criteria)
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DC FSA)
• Commuter Benefit
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Training and Personnel Development Program
• Educational Assistance and Reimbursement
• Position is full time (40 hours per week) Monday through Friday

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time