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Flexport (YC W14) | San Francisco, CA and Chicago, IL | Onsite | https://www.flexport.com

Flexport’s mission is to make global trade easy for everyone. We are revolutionizing a huge industry that touches every country on the planet, which means solving complex challenges. We are looking for makers who love learning, are passionate about collaborating, and desire to see the global impact of the solutions they build.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/flexport

View all of our jobs here: https://grnh.se/c0d6caef1

Tech Stack:

* Frontend: React, Relay, Flow, Jest, Enzyme

* Mobile: React Native, Apollo

* Backend: Ruby on Rails, Postgres, GraphQL, Python, RSpec

* CI: GitHub, Buildkite

* Infrastructure: AWS, Python



> Flexport’s mission is to make global trade easy for everyone.

Can you expand a little on this? Maybe give an example of what kind of person finds value in your product? I gather you do something related to freight, but beyond that I can’t tell.


There's a lot of money to make for the freight forwarding companies.

A lot of container owners charge you fully knowing that your product may get caught up in customs and they make their money on late fees.

As a user of this product, I think you probably get better visibility of where your contents are in the overall process and access to customs agents, which that in itself would help cut your overall costs down if you know that your items were categorized correctly on your customs forms, preventing the above from happening.

The founder talking about it at startup school. https://youtu.be/syoqjYLDs48?t=1169




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