Experienced Full Stack Software Engineer – Web & Cloud Application Development for Dataworks at FedEx

About Us

At FedEx Dataworks, we're a trailblazer that ships almost 20 million packages per day and manages vast strings of data. We're a team of innovators, driven by a passion to connect the physical and digital sides of our organization to tackle the present challenges and address the upcoming ones. Our mission is to create supply chains that are smarter for everyone.

Job Highlights

• Position: Experienced Full Stack Software Engineer – Web & Cloud Application Development
• Compensation: A competitive salary with a monthly range of $35-$40, depending on location and experience
• Company: FedEx Dataworks
• Location: Remote, with the possibility of working from anywhere in the US
• Start Date: Immediate openings available

About the Role

We're seeking an experienced full stack software engineer to join our team at FedEx Dataworks. As a key member of our engineering team, you'll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining large-scale data pipelines and applications. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to drive business results, including confirmations of significant value for new business issues and creation-ready solutions for tasks and client-facing products.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team responsible for planning, creating, and maintaining all application software and data pipelines for real-time/batch analysis, modeling, reporting, and data collection, ensuring data reliability, efficiency, and quality.
• Collaborate successfully with different teams in FedEx Dataworks, including Data Science, E-commerce Products, Supply Chain Solutions, and Platform Engineering, to ensure data supporting value-driven analysis is ingested and maintained in the FedEx enterprise data lake.
• Ensure a team of data engineers builds, deploys, and maintains data processing infrastructure that supports complex analysis across data science, product, application development, and critical groups.
• Ensure adherence to best practices to guarantee reliability, scalability, security, compliance, and data quality for all data resources.
• Manage the ingestion of data sources into the FedEx enterprise data lake.
• Support incident management methods to ensure high-quality data is available to data lake consumers.
• Resolve issues and communicate the status of team activities to senior management.
• Ensure proper data management, data stewardship, and data awareness practices are applied to data residing in the FedEx enterprise data lake.
• Provide sufficient staffing, and financial and legal oversight for a team of data engineers.
• Mentor and coach other colleagues to drive results and actually collaborate across cross-functional groups to deliver business objectives.

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you'll need:

Essential Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related quantitative field, such as Computer Science or Mathematics, or equivalent experience.
• Broad knowledge in data engineering and AI structures, including design, development, and execution of highly complex systems and data pipelines.
• Broad knowledge in Data Science, including design, development, and execution of large-scale or batch-based systems.
• A solid understanding of the transportation industry, competitors, and advancing technologies.
• Experience providing leadership in a general training or consulting setting.
• Experience as a leader or senior member of multi-functional project teams.
• Solid oral and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• A master's degree in a related field may be substituted for some of the required experience.
• Experience working with large-scale data processing technologies, such as Hadoop, Spark, or NoSQL databases.
• Experience with cloud-based platforms, such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience with data visualization tools, such as Tableau or Power BI.
• Experience with agile development methodologies, such as Scrum or Kanban.

Skills and Competencies

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

• A convincing history of planning and delivering large-scale technical solutions that convey distinct, ongoing value.
• A solid foundation and experience in the use of modern descriptive, predictive, prescriptive, and ensemble modeling, high-level statistical methods, and complex numerical tools.
• The ability to make value-driven trade-offs and project prioritization decisions.
• The ability to drive change to support distributed teams to unblock particularly challenging technical obstacles, and to tackle through issues as they are still being defined.
• A plan-oriented outlook embracing ambiguity joined with a design mentality ready to make quick, practical decisions to improve performance and accelerate progress.
• Experience in the transportation industry and understanding of advancing technologies.
• Knowledge of analyzing large-scale structured and unstructured data using Scala and Python.
• Experience working with large-scale data processing technologies, such as Hadoop, Spark, or NoSQL databases.
• Experience with cloud-based platforms, such as AWS or Azure.

Career Growth Opportunities and Learning Benefits

We offer a range of opportunities for career growth and learning, including:

• Professional development programs to help you advance your skills and knowledge.
• Opportunities to work on high-visibility projects and contribute to the development of our organization.
• A collaborative and supportive work environment that encourages innovation and creativity.
• A comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement savings, and paid time off.

Work Environment and Company Culture

We're a remote-friendly organization that values flexibility and work-life balance. Our company culture is built on a foundation of collaboration, innovation, and customer satisfaction. We're committed to creating a workplace that is inclusive, diverse, and supportive of all employees.

Compensation, Perks, and Benefits

We offer a competitive salary range of $35-$40 per month, depending on location and experience. We also offer a range of benefits, including:

• Health insurance.
• Dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with company match and incentive reward potential.
• Paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, and holidays.
• Geographic compensation ranges.
• Professional development programs.
• A comprehensive benefits package.

How to Apply

To apply for this role, please submit your resume and answer our work screening poll by 5pm ET on March 12, 2024. We're an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from diverse candidates.

Don't Hesitate, Apply!

Don't worry if you don't meet every single requirement. We value a great attitude and a willingness to learn above all. Submit your application today!