[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, WebApp @Shippo

Role Description

• Shipping & handling responsibilities
• System Design & Development: Build and maintain the full stack web application features including scalable, distributed microservices.
• Technical Leadership: Own complex features from technical design to production deployment adhering to high-performance and reliability standards.
• Engineering Excellence: Owning technical strategy to enhance and support core web application stack, ensuring performance and accuracy for high-throughput traffic.
• Operational Health: Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot production incidents, and maintain high SLAs.
• Collaboration & Mentorship: Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Infrastructure, Designer, API Partners) and set high engineering standards.
• Infrastructure: Improve CI/CD pipelines, container-based software distribution (Docker, Kubernetes), and observability.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years of experience in software development
• Experience building and maintaining highly available, scalable web applications
• Proficiency in programming languages and frameworks commonly used in full-stack development on distributed systems (e.g., React, Python, Go, Kafka, SQL, NoSQL)
• Strong understanding of software architecture, object-oriented programming, and design patterns
• Experience with AI-assisted development workflow
• Can effectively communicate to stakeholders across different organizations within the company
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams
• BSc in a STEM field, with a preference for computer science and software engineering

Requirements

• Bonus: Experience with the shipping and logistics industry
• Bonus: Experience with shipping AI-powered customer-facing features

Benefits

• Here at Shippo, we celebrate inclusivity and are committed to creating equal access to opportunities for people from all backgrounds, perspectives, and geographies.
• All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
• If you need assistance, or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please contact us at [email protected]

Company Description

• Our people, much like the packages we help ship, are all over the world.
• Through our remote-first program, “Shippos Everywhere”, our roles can be based anywhere in the US with the exception of Delaware, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Hawaii, New Mexico, and West Virginia.
• Many roles can be based internationally.
• For locations outside of the US and Ireland, the employment contracts are powered by Rippling.com.