Software Engineer III

C.H. Robinson is seeking a Software Engineer III to join its Bots & Quoting Automation team. The role focuses on developing, maintaining, implementing, and monitoring customer quoting automation using API integrations, web scraping, email automation, and LLM-powered solutions, while collaborating with product, engineering, data science, and analytics teams.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with product managers and principal software engineers to translate requirements into detailed designs
• Partner with data scientists and data analysts to drive performance improvements for our applications
• Proactively troubleshoot applications and identify performance and availability issues providing effective options for resolution
• Tune performance and resolve availability issues of product or service and its dependencies
• Increase code quality through writing unit, integration, and acceptance tests
• Collaborate with other software engineers and teams on code reviews, development infrastructure, and process enhancements
• Grow, push the boundaries and learn new things to apply to our team's work
• Write clean, maintainable Python and JS code
• Participate in AGILE/SCRUM process
• Work directly on a product suite that drives revenue and cost-savings to the company bottom line

Requirements:

• • 5+ years of experience collaborating in a team environment shipping software (Python)
• • Experience with automation and/or human computer-interaction (HCI) principles & design
• • AI Native Programming – you both make use of tools like copilot and think about when to integrate LLMs into systems
• • Proficient creating applications and features in object-oriented and functional programming environments
• • Working experience with database objects in relational databases (ex. MS SQL, Oracle, Postgres) and non-relational databases (ex. MongoDB)
• • Proficient with GIT for version control
• • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience and a high school diploma/GED
• This role can be based only in Minnesota, Chicago or Kansas City
• • Exposure developing containerized applications (Docker)
• • Front-End (React) development/design
• • Exposure to statistics and machine learning concepts
• • Experience building Agentic AI systems that interact with humans
• • Web Scraping Experience (ex. Selenium, Playwright)
• • You value Systems Thinking: how do different parts of the system interact with each other, queues, software components, agents, etc
• • Experience with monitoring tools (ex. DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana)
• • Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• • Have a growth mindset that is open to giving and receiving feedback
• • Able to thrive in a collaborative, creative, dynamic workplace