Engineer III, Global Technology - Legacy Export

Why This Role Matters
The Engineer III plays a key role in analyzing, coding, and supporting a mission-critical proprietary COBOL Transportation Management System that supports Expeditors’ business operations. This role owns feature-level work from requirements through deployment, partnering with Technical Product Managers, Architects, and Senior Engineers to turn business needs into functional code.
Beyond individual development work, the Engineer III contributes to technical decisions, design reviews, operational support, and continuous improvement. You’ll help maintain the reliability and scalability of critical systems while collaborating across the team, sharing technical knowledge, and demonstrating completed changes to stakeholders at all levels.
Team and Technology
You’ll work in a paired programming environment, partnering with Technical Product Managers, Architects, Senior Engineers, and engineering teammates to turn requirements into functional code.
The technology environment includes COBOL, Object-Oriented COBOL, IBM DB2, HP Image, PostgreSQL, UNIX, Linux, Windows, GitHub, Fresche-AMXW, and ORDAT-Ti2SQL. The role also participates in after-hours support on a scheduled rotation.
What Success Looks Like
Work effectively in a paired programming environment.
Own feature-level projects from start to finish.
Turn Technical Product Manager requirements into functional code.
Manage merge and deploy operations for yourself and the team.
Demo changes to stakeholders at all levels.
Key Areas of Impact
Technical Depth and Delivery
Analyze, code, and support a mission-critical proprietary COBOL Transportation Management System while owning feature-level projects from development through merge and deployment.
Perform code reviews, support operational excellence, and use AI-powered tools to automate code generation and testing while participating in after-hours support on a scheduled rotation.
Architectural Scale
Turn requirements from Technical Product Managers into functional code with input from Architects and Senior Engineers, contributing to technical design and solution decisions.
Design solutions with consideration for system dependencies, operational impacts, reliability, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate engineering and architectural patterns.
Team Collaboration Scale
Work in a paired programming environment and collaborate across engineering teams to plan, coordinate, and deliver technology solutions and shared commitments.
Contribute to team success through constructive feedback, knowledge sharing, and technical leadership while helping resolve technical disagreements collaboratively.
Influence and Advocacy
Demo changes to stakeholders at all levels and communicate technical concepts, recommendations, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
Advocate for solutions that improve delivery, quality, and customer outcomes while promoting Engineering Principles, best practices, and continuous improvement.
Scope of Vision
Own feature-level projects from start to finish, translating business and technical priorities into actionable plans and functional solutions with a 3–6 month planning horizon.
Consider long-term maintainability, scalability, and operational support needs while identifying opportunities for technical improvement and system evolution.
Scale of Business Understanding and Impact
Apply business context when turning requirements into functional solutions, balancing technical quality with organizational priorities and customer needs.
Build understanding of supported customers, users, and business processes to improve customer experience, operational effectiveness, and business outcomes.
This position is on-site and will reside in the greater Seattle, WA. area at one of the following locations depending on availability. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate. Relocation assistance is not offered for this position.
Downtown Seattle
Federal Way
Lynnwood
Bellevue (Factoria)
Qualifications for Success
Required
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
7+ years of COBOL programming, including hands-on experience with Object-Oriented COBOL, object-oriented design principles, and the development and use of macros.
Experience designing, developing, implementing, or supporting software, platforms, infrastructure, data solutions, or related technology products.
Experience contributing to technical design discussions and solution architecture decisions.
Experience supporting production systems and participating in operational support activities.
Experience collaborating across teams to deliver technology solutions and business outcomes.
Experience working with agile delivery practices, source control, testing methodologies, and modern engineering workflows.
Experience with Agentic AI development processes and practices.
Preferred
SQL and data analysis experience.
Experience with integration between systems.
Experience with IBM DB2, HP Image, PostgreSQL, UNIX, Linux, Windows, GitHub, Fresche-AMXW, or ORDAT-Ti2SQL.
Knowledge of international trade, logistics, and government compliance programs.
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.

Skills
Git, Linux, SQL, PostgreSQL, Data Analysis, Agile

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
No