Job Description

AUTOMATION DEVELOPER

Reports To: MANAGER OF CORPORATE SYSTEMS

Location: CHICAGO, IL

For more than 19+ years, REDWOOD LOGISTICS has been helping move businesses forward by connecting our clients to winning strategies. Redwood is a next-generation leader in third-party logistics. We focus brilliant minds, technology services, and performance excellence to modernize your supply chain. Your business was never designed to be ordinary. Your logistics partner shouldn’t be either.

See for yourself why The Chicago Tribune has named Redwood Logistics a Top Workplace for several years running!

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

As an AUTOMATION DEVELOPER, you will be responsible for helping Redwood automate and streamline critical business functions that cannot be easily handled with an existing solution. This role will be key to driving the framework, solution design, and implementation for transforming the business with RPA (bot) processes.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Quickly understand business and data process flows within different business groups of the logistics industry
• Prioritize requests by working with the business owners to determine efficiency gains with automation
• Document, design, build and support applications designed to automate internal and external processes
• Turn business requirements into functional technical processes
• Review, test and deploy new software following a Scrum framework
• Ensure coding standards and corporate policies & procedures are adhered to
• See projects through from inception to post-production support

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3 years of experience in designing and developing automation processes
• Experience with Object Oriented Programming Languages and frameworks (Python, Java, C#, .NET)
• Strong SQL skills, with an ability to write well-tuned SQL queries
• Experience analyzing web source code like JavaScript, HTML
• Experience interacting with API functionality, IE REST and SOAP webservices
• Experience with UiPath a plus
• Knowledge of common approaches to scheduling tasks and monitoring task failures
• The ideal candidate should have a thorough awareness of technical trends and should have a broad set of technical skills enabling them to excel using various sources of technology
• Drive to learn the business and partner with them to design effective solutions

REWARDS:

• Culture of unlimited growth with new positions and departments created regularly to support our growing customer base
• Paid maternity and paternity leave policies
• Medical, dental, vision and 401k plans (with match)
• Flexible-spending, mass transit and dependent care plans
• Health savings account, with company contribution
• Short-term, long-term and life insurance policies subsidized by company
• Cell phone discounts; reduced fees for health and fitness clubs
• Additional benefits including pet insurance, accident care and more
• Competitive referral bonus program
• Competitive PTO plans, with extra floating holiday and time off to volunteer
• Fundraising and volunteer opportunities to give back to our local and national communities