Software Engineer III

Job Description

We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer III to join our Address Validation, Tracking, and Pickups team! This team is responsible for developing new features, building infrastructure, and maintaining current services. You will become a domain expert on Shippo’s approach to 1) sending updates to customers about the status of their packages and 2) validating address locations across the world.
Shipping & Handling Responsibilities

Implement, test, and deploy software services with high SLAs that can handle millions of requests a day with a BDD approach.
Verify performance and correctness of systems in response time and throughput.
Refactor existing systems for optimal performance and reuse.
Contribute to design reviews, participate in peer reviews, and build automated test suites for new features, products, and systems.
Work with a sense of urgency and iterate quickly in an Agile process.
Exceptional problem solving skills: demonstrated ability to understand business challenges and translate those into technical solutions.
Join the on-call rotation and respond quickly to system incidents.

Do you tick the boxes?

6+ years of experience in software development.
Coding experience in at least one server-side programming language (e.g. Python, Go, Java, Ruby) as well as database languages (SQL).
Experience working with a server-side MVC framework (e.g. Django, .NET, Spring, Rails, Phoenix).
Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and familiarity with various design and architectural patterns.
Ability to look ahead to identify opportunities, foster a culture of innovation, and build for scale.
High ownership and attention to system reliability and monitoring.
Core behaviors focused on craftsmanship, continuous improvement, and team success.
BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Bonus

Prior experience working or interacting with shipping and/or postal carriers.
Experience integrating with APIs that use SOAP or gRPC protocols.
Experience with Django or FastAPI.
Experience using Python or Golang in production at scale.
Interest and experience in performance tuning, concurrency, microservices, security, and data analytics.
Experience with messaging systems such as NSQ, Kafka, SQS and Celery
Experience with DevOps tooling such as Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, New Relic, PagerDuty, etc
Experience with AWS/Cloud services such as EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Route 53, Cloud Formation, Cloudflare, Elastic Beanstalk, IAM, etc.

Sail through the process
Here at Shippo, we celebrate inclusivity and are committed to creating equal access to opportunities for people from all backgrounds, perspectives and geographies. These values define who we are and everything we do. 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 accommodations[at]goshippo.com
Shippos in the wild
Our people, much like the packages we help ship, are all over the world. This means, 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 and many roles can be based internationally.