Staff Software Engineer

August 7

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Shippo

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Multi-carrier shipping • Shipping Labels • Shipment Tracking • Shipping API & Dashboard • Global Shipping

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Description

• Before you read on, take a look around you. Everything you see has been shipped, often multiple times before reaching its destination. Global ecommerce sales are expected to total $5.5 trillion worldwide in 2022 and continue growing over the next few years. Here at Shippo, we are the shipping layer of the internet and we consider ourselves to be one of the core building blocks of e-commerce. • Our mission is to make merchants successful through world class shipping. With our products and solutions, we level the playing field by providing our customers with best-in-class solutions that otherwise wouldn’t be available to them. Through Shippo, e-commerce businesses, marketplaces, and platforms are able to connect to shipping carriers around the world from one API and dashboard. We provide our customers with the most competitive shipping rates, print labels, automated international documents, shipment tracking, facilitate the returns process and more. • Design, implement, test, and deploy software services with high SLAs that can handle millions of requests a day • Ensure scalability and maintainability through microservices adoption, decoupling of concerns and data model, queuing of jobs, application layering, and container-based software distribution • Architect and refactor systems for optimal performance, scalability, observability, and reuse • Design and maintain database schemas for large-scale and performant services • Continue to build out and enhance our CI/CD pipeline for smooth and safe production releases via automated testing and verification • Contribute to design reviews, participate rigorously in peer reviews, and build automated test suites for new features, products, and systems • Collaborate with business teams, provide early input to new product ideas and functionality, and assist in gathering business requirements • Mentor more junior engineers on engineering best practices • Join the on-call rotation and respond quickly to system incidents (AWS, Redis)

Requirements

• Must have at least 8+ years of hands-on engineering experience building high volume distributed systems and scalable APIs, services, or applications • Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and familiarity with various design and architectural patterns • Coding experience in server-side programming languages (e.g. Go, Python, Java, Ruby) as well as database languages (SQL) • Experience working with server-side MVC frameworks (e.g. Django, .NET, Spring, Rails, Phoenix) • Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills • Deep understanding of customer needs and passion for customer success • Ability to look ahead to identify opportunities and foster a culture of innovation • Core behaviors focused on craftsmanship, continuous improvement, and team success • BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience