Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BNSF Railway is one of the largest U.S. railroads, transporting freight across the nation. They are seeking a Front End Sr/Staff Software Engineer to develop and deliver high-quality software that supports freight movement operations and enhances customer experiences.
Responsibilities
- As a Sr/Staff Software engineer in our teams, you will have the opportunity to learn, develop and deliver high quality software that is highly visible, deliver innovative projects that directly impact our railroad logistics to effectively serve our customers to move freight on time
- You will be involved in developing and deploying software for our core freight movement operations that spans across our customer experiences
- You will lead the design and development of Software modules built by small group of software engineers and own the end to end delivery of the modules and dependencies
- This is a Front End Engineer role, focusing on framework development for web, mobile devices and mobile web browsers, building experiences with mobile cross platform development frameworks like React Native, Angular, Flutter on Web and mobile
- Fluency in Typescript, Javascript, knowledge of Graph QL, rendering frameworks and building Fluid UI that can evolve with AI infused experiences are highly desirable
- You will partner closely with UX designers, product and other senior engineers
- Your technical design choices of correct UX framework implementations will have direct outcome of customer experiences and business results
- You will mentor Junior peers who share a passion for front-end work and you will ensure that teams with limited UI experience can succeed in delivering high quality customer experiences and workflows
- Write production-quality code for well-defined tasks
- Follow team coding standards and processes
- Participate in design reviews to learn best practices
- Write and maintain unit/integration tests
- Debug and fix straightforward issues
- Seek feedback proactively and apply it to improve
- Develop APIs, automation, and tools to improve platform integration
- Build and maintain monitoring and alerting systems for services
- Collaborate with application teams to enhance reliability and performance
- Design and operate cutting edge front end customer experiences and workflows infused with AI
- Work with BNSF teams to create products that improve rail network operations
- Innovate in distributed computing and drive industry transformation
- Build solutions for high-speed, large-scale predictions on distributed systems
- Solve broad challenges by coding effective solutions in an agile environment
- Write maintainable and production ready code in web services, web and other front end technologies
Skills
- Authorized to work in the US
- Minimum 6 years of software development or related experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience with developing, testing and deploying high quality software in production systems
- Experience (non-internship) with building web application technologies such as Javascript, CSS, AJAX, React
- Experience in web applications design and development
- Experience collaborating with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to learn new technical concepts and to adapt to new technologies quickly
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, or related field
- Experience building AI applications and using AI as part of Customer experiences and workflows
- Experience coding with latest AI developer tools in IDE environments
- Engineering experience with a public PaaS or cloud provider (AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Familiarity with frameworks like React, Angular, Node.js, Spring Boot
- Developing and delivering highly reliable distributed systems in production environment
- Experience participating in design reviews, incident retrospectives, or RFC processes
- Experience with secure coding practices
- Experience in building and evolving UX design systems
- Able to work now and in the future without BNSF's assistance (whether monetary, through sponsorship, or otherwise) in obtaining, maintaining, or extending employment authorization (including H-1B, STEM OPT/CPT, or TN nonimmigrant status)
Benefits
- An industry-leading 401(k) and renowned Railroad Retirement program.
- A range of robust health care options for you and your dependents (including domestic partners), including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, mental health, cancer support, and high-quality care network options.
- Health care spending accounts (HSA) with employer contributions, as well as life and disability insurance, provided at no cost.
- Family benefits including parental, pediatric and family building support, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, and dependent care spending account (with employer match).
- Access to discounts on travel, gym memberships, counseling services and wellness support.
- Annual bonus (Incentive Compensation Program)
- Generous leave / time off policies.
Company Overview
BNSF Railway operates one of the largest railroad networks in North America, with about 32,500 route miles in 28 states and three Canadian provinces. It was founded in 1994, and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.bnsf.com/.Company H1B Sponsorship
BNSF Railway has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 10 in 2026, 9 in 2025, 3 in 2024, 1 in 2023, 4 in 2022, 4 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.