Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Shippo builds logistics technology and infrastructure that connects merchants with carriers through a unified API and dashboard. The company is seeking a Software Engineer III for its WebApp - Lighthouse team to build scalable web application features, improve customer experiences, and partner with product managers and designers. The role also involves technical ownership, operational support, infrastructure improvements, and cross-functional collaboration.
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: 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 setting high engineering standards
- Infrastructure: Improve CI/CD pipelines, container-based software distribution (Docker, Kubernetes), and observability
Skills
- Minimum 7+ years of experience in software development
- Experience building and maintaining highly available, scalable web applications
- Proficiency in programming language 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
- Computer science and software engineering
- Preference for computer science and software engineering
- Experience with the shipping and logistics industry
- Experience with shipping AI powered customer facing features
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage for medical, dental, and vision (90% covered by the company, incl. dependents).
- Pets coverage is also available!
- Take-as-much-as-you-need vacation policy & flexible working hours
- One week-long company wide winter slow down
- 3 Volunteer Days Off (VTOs)
- WFH stipend to set up your home office
- Charity donation match up to $100
- Dedicated programs, coaching, tools, and resources for your professional and career growth as well as an individual learning stipend for your personal and focused growth
- Fun team in person time through our Shippos Everywhere program which includes regular team and company off-sites throughout the year as well as local Shippos gatherings
- Equity
- Remote-first program, “Shippos Everywhere”
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