Lead Engineer, Software Engineering Requisition Id: 375550 Business Unit: Corporate Location: Portland, OR, US, 97209 **Solutions driven success.** XPO is a top ten global provider of transportation services, with a highly integrated network of people, technology and physical assets. At XPO, we look for employees who like a challenge and can communicate effectively in all situations. We want to leverage your skills and years of experience to drive positive results while ensuring a bright future for yourself and XPO. If you’re looking for a growth opportunity, join us at XPO. **Pay, benefits and more.** We’re eager to attract the best, so we offer competitive compensation and a generous benefits package, including full health insurance (medical, dental and vision), 401(k), life insurance, disability, and the opportunity to participate in a company incentive plan. As the Lead Engineer, Software Engineering, you will oversee the development/support of specific IT areas and systems, and the timely delivery of projects. On our team, you’ll have the support to excel at work and the resources to build a career you can be proud of. **What you’ll do on a typical day:** + Oversee the development/support of specific IT areas and systems, and the timely delivery of projects. + Identify and communicate risks to the business; investigate and propose new tools and frameworks to deliver quality products faster. + Act as a liaison between project management, technical teams and IT leadership; assure best practices are defined and followed; drive consistency across applications and projects wherever possible. + Manage all aspects of coding for the team, including branching, code review, continuous integration, build and release management, code reusability and maintainability with constant refactoring. + Mentor developers and help resolve technical roadblocks; conduct collaborative code reviews and coordinate the deployment and implementation of software solutions; recognize organizational/team challenges and address them with management. + Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment and collaborate with developers to manage code releases. + Eligible for telecommuting from home within reasonable commuting distance from Portland, OR. Will require physical presence at worksite in Portland, OR at least several days a week. **What you need to succeed at XPO:** At a minimum, you’ll need: + Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, engineering technology, or a related technical field. Employer will accept any foreign Bachelor’s degree program of at least 3 years. + Requires four (4) years of experience as a Software Web Developer, Senior Software Developer Lead, or related. + Experience must include four (4) years of experience in all of the following: + Software solutions development in medium to large corporate environments or commercial software companies. + Industry-standard IDEs—Eclipse, Visual Studio, WebStorm, VSCode. + Data marshalling, data transformation, and data representation technologies (Model entities, JSON, HTML, XML, Stylesheets). + Rapid programming, agile development, software patterning, and refactoring techniques. + Process communication techniques (shared memory, message queues, data streams, semaphores). + Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses common programming languages (C, C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic, JavaScript, TypeScript). + IT software development life cycle methodologies and processes, including usage of source control tools. **Be part of something big.** **About XPO** XPO is a top ten global provider of transportation services, with a highly integrated network of people, technology and physical assets. At XPO, we look for employees who like a challenge and can communicate effectively in all situations. We want to leverage your skills and years of experience to drive positive results while ensuring a bright future for yourself and XPO. If you’re looking for a growth opportunity, join us at XPO. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, disability, veteran or other protected status. All applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment may be required to take and pass a pre-employment drug test. The above statements are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties and skills for this job classification. Review XPO's candidate privacy statementhere (https://jobs.xpo.com/content/CANDIDATE-PRIVACY-NOTICE/?locale=en\_US) .