Software Engineer

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.