Senior Engineer - Shopper Backend

Shipt; Birmingham (AL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k

Paid holidays

Discretionary bonus

RSUs

Paid time off

Job summary

Shipt is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Shopper Backend in Birmingham, AL. You will collaborate with a cross-disciplinary squad to design, build, and deploy high-performance, multi-region services using Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka.

You will own production systems with minimal travel, drive architectural decisions, and mentor peers while shaping the engineering culture of a high-performing team.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend software development experience in a cross-functional Agile environment.
• Proven ability to design, deploy, and own complex production services end-to-end.
• Experience building multi-region distributed systems and RESTful APIs.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of high-performance, multi-region backend services.
• Mentor peers and drive architectural decisions across the Shopper Backend team.
• Analyze metrics and optimize non-functional requirements for production systems.

Skills

Go programming

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

Job description

Impact As a Senior Software Engineer on the Shopper Backend team, your day involves collaborating with a cross-disciplinary squad to design, build, and deploy high-performance, multi-region services using tools like Go, Copilot Postgres, Redis, and Kafka. Operating with zero travel requirements, you will take deep ownership of our production environment, driving architectural decisions and performing non-functional requirements, and analyzing metrics to ship real-world products that directly empower shoppers nationwide. You will stand out by leading complex technical challenges autonomously while actively mentoring peers, sharing solutions across the org, and shaping the engineering culture of our high performing team.

Impact As a Senior Software Engineer on the Shopper Backend team, your day involves collaborating with a cross-disciplinary squad to design, build, and deploy high-performance, multi-region services using tools like Go, Copilot Postgres, Redis, and Kafka. Operating with zero travel requirements, you will take deep ownership of our production environment, driving architectural decisions and performing non-functional requirements, and analyzing metrics to ship real-world products that directly empower shoppers nationwide. You will stand out by leading complex technical challenges autonomously while actively mentoring peers, sharing solutions across the org, and shaping the engineering culture of our high performing team.

What You’ll Need to Be Successful

• Software Engineering Experience: 4+ years of software development experience, operating with a high degree of autonomy and collaboration to independently design, deploy, and own complex production services from end to end in a cross-functional Agile environment.
• Distributed Systems Projects: Proven experience building and scaling multi-region distributed architectures, microservices, or SOA systems using languages such as Go, design patterns, and Kafka event driven messaging.
• Data Modeling & Optimization: A track record of designing distributed data models and actively identifying and improving poor-performing code or database queries with Postgres, Snowflake, and caching technologies like Redis.
• API Design: Hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining RESTful APIs that successfully apply functional and object-oriented programming paradigms to serve high-volume customer traffic.
• Mentorship & Collaboration: Demonstrated experience mentoring junior or peer engineers, leading design sessions gathering input from multiple voices, providing code reviews, and clearly communicating complex architectural concepts to cross-disciplinary teams.

Required

• 4 years+ Backend REST services.
• 4 years+ relational or no-sql databases. Distributed database design experience preferred.
• Caching such as REDIS.
• 2 years+ messaging queuing such as Kafka.
• Must have CS principles + design patterns such as Gang of Four
• 2+ years driving non-functional requirements for performance/load testing and scaling infrastructure.
• Observability: logging + metrics
• On-call experience 24/7 for high ownership on production issues. This team rotation every 3-4 weeks.

Skills & Education

This list includes key skills used in this job but is not inclusive of all skills needed for the role. Please see any required education below.

Back-End Development, Distributed Systems, Go Programming Language, PostgreSQLBachelor's Degree or equivalent experience| Required

Work Arrangement

To foster connection while offering continued flexibility, hybrid team members have the following in-office expectations:

Hybrid roles in Birmingham, AL typically work in-office at least 2 days per week, with core in-office days on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Hybrid roles in Minneapolis, MN typically work in-office at least 1 day per week on either Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.

Hybrid roles in San Francisco, CA typically work in-office at least 1 day per week between Monday and Thursday.

Certain roles may require in-office presence on a full-time basis. Please work with your recruiter to learn more about the classification of this role.

About Shipt

Shipt is a retail tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch. Shipt connects customers to the things they want from the stores they love, retail businesses to more satisfied customers, and workers to new earning opportunities.

At Shipt, we aim to put our team first to boost a sense of belonging, spark opportunities for growth, provide unique benefits and commit to giving back to our communities in ways that make life better, both personally and professionally. We understand that our service, our culture, and our connection to our communities are only made better by every single person who shows up to work here every day. Learn More.

Shipt is an independently operated, wholly owned subsidiary of Target Corporation and available in more than 5,000 U.S. cities. Shipt was founded and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. For more information, please visit Shipt's company site at Shipt.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Employees (and eligible family members) are covered by medical, dental, vision and more. Employees may enroll in our company’s 401k plan. Employees will also be eligible to receive discretionary vacation for exempt team members, paid holidays throughout the calendar year and paid sick leave. Other compensation includes eligibility for an annual bonus and the potential for restricted stock units based on role.