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Distinguished Engineer

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Hybrid
Chicago, IL
149K-218K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
Chicago, IL
149K-218K Annually
Senior level
The Distinguished Engineer is responsible for driving tech strategy, mentoring teams, promoting engineering excellence, and influencing stakeholders across the organization.
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As a Distinguished Engineer, you will play a crucial role in driving our tech strategy and enabling the delivery of critical solutions across domains. You will be a deep technical expert and thought leader, helping to accelerate the adoption of the very best engineering practices while keeping up-to-date with industry innovations, trends, and practices. You will collaborate on our toughest challenges to deliver business solutions that directly impact our customers' success.
In this role, you will be a visionary, role model, mentor, and evangelist. You will help coach and strengthen the technical expertise of our engineering and product community, while establishing yourself as a go-to resource on given technologies and technology-enabled capabilities. You will have an excellent understanding of design patterns and architectural styles, strong soft skills, and experience designing and setting up new development tools and infrastructures.
Your responsibilities will include building awareness, increasing knowledge, and driving the adoption of modern technologies. You will strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where others' ideas can be heard and championed. You will promote a culture of engineering excellence and effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise at all levels of the organization.

Basic Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s Degree

· At least 7 years of experience in software engineering utilizing languages such as C#, Golang, Python, and/or Java

· At least 3 years of experience driving solution architecture

· At least 3 years of experience with public cloud technologies, preferably AWS.

· Industry experience in required.

Preferred Qualifications:

· Masters’ Degree

· 10+ years of experience in software engineering or solution architecture

· 7+ years of experience designing and building enterprise platform solutions.

· 5+ years of experience with Agile software development

· 4+ years of experience with AWS

· 3+ years of experience defining software design, architecture, and engineering practices.

· AWS Certifications

Echo Global Logistics is a leading provider of technology-enabled transportation management services. As a third-party logistics provider, we simplify transportation management for our clients and carriers, handling crucial tasks so they can focus on what they do best. From coast to coast, dock to dock, and across all major transportation modes, Echo connects businesses that need to ship their products with carriers who transport goods quickly, securely, and cost-effectively.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or Vietnam era or other protected veteran.

Benefits

For more information about our benefit offerings, please visit our careers page at https://www.echo.com/company/careers.

Compensation

Compensation Range: $148,600.00 - $183,450.00 - $218,300.00This role is eligible for a bonus that is based on a combination of personal and business performance.

Top Skills

AWS
C#
Go
Java
Python
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Echo Global Logistics Chicago, Illinois, USA Office

Located in River North overlooking the River! Easily accessible and close to various train and bus stops, including a shuttle from Union Station.

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