Senior Software Engineer, WebApp

Shippo; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Shippo is hiring aSenior Software Engineer for its WebApp team. The role focuses on building a scalable, high-availability web application stack with modern frontend and backend capabilities.

You will collaborate with product managers and designers to deliver features that improve the shipping experience for merchants worldwide. You will own system design, drive technical leadership, and ensure performance and reliability under high load.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Experience building highly available, scalable web apps.
• Proficiency with full-stack web development using React, Python, Go, Kafka, SQL/NoSQL.
• Strong understanding of OO design and design patterns.
• Experience with AI-assisted development workflows.
• Excellent stakeholder communication across orgs.

Responsibilities

• System Design & Development: build and maintain full-stack web app features and microservices.
• Technical Leadership: own complex features from design to production.
• Engineering Excellence: enhance core stack for performance and reliability.
• Operational Health: participate in on-call rotations and on-call incident response.
• Collaboration & Mentorship: work with Product, Infrastructure, Designers, API Partners.
• Infrastructure: improve CI/CD pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes, and observability.

Skills

React

Python

Go

Kafka

SQL

NoSQL

Software architecture

Design patterns

AI assisted development

Communication across orgs

Education

BSc in STEM

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

At Shippo, our vision is bold and clear: we are the shipping layer of the internet. Our mission is to make every merchant successful through excellent shipping,delivering world-class logistics technology and infrastructure. We’re building the backbone of global e-commerce — connecting merchants to carriers worldwide through a single API and intuitive dashboard.

As a remote-first and globally distributed team , we believe flexibility fuels trust, autonomy, and performance. Our diverse perspectives — across continents, cultures, and time zones — drive our innovation and enable us to build solutions used by businesses everywhere. We invest in modern, scalable technology so our teams can build, ship, and iterate with confidence.

Your impact starts here: every person at Shippo plays a direct role in shaping the infrastructure that powers global commerce and makes shipping simpler for businesses around the world.

How we will deliver success together:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our WebApp team. Our business is rapidly expanding and we’re developing the new intelligent web application capabilities with the best-in-class user experience for our customers. At the same time, the customer base grew significantly in both diversity and complexity. As a Sr Software Engineer, you will be working together with a group of highly talented engineers and partnering with product managers and designers to deliver features to meet our customers’ demands. Stay connected to customer impact and contribute to decisions that balance technical quality with user experience.

• 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 setting high engineering standards.
• Infrastructure: Improve CI/CD pipelines, container-based software distribution (Docker, Kubernetes), and observability.

Your shipping requirements

• Minimum 8+ 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, with a preference for computer science and software engineering

Bonus

• Experience with the shipping and logistics industry.
• Experience with shipping AI powered customer facing features

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 [e-mail]

Shippo's 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.

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