Senior Software Engineer, WebApp

Shippo; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Experience with shipping and logistics

Shipping AI powered customer facing

Job summary

Shippo is seeking a senior software engineer to design and implement full‑stack features for scalable microservices. You will own features from design to production, ensuring high performance and reliability of the core web stack while contributing to on‑call rotations.

Collaborate with Product, Infrastructure, Design and API partners; improve CI/CD pipelines; work with Docker, Kubernetes and observability tooling.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software development.
• Experience building scalable, highly available web apps.
• Proficiency in React, Python, Go, Kafka, SQL/NoSQL.
• Strong OO design and design pattern knowledge.
• Experience with AI-assisted development workflows.
• Excellent cross-team communication skills.
• BSc in STEM, preferably CS/Software Eng.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop full-stack features for distributed microservices.
• Own features from design through production deployment.
• Ensure performance, reliability, and high availability of core stack.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with Product, Infrastructure, Design and API partners.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and container-based delivery with Docker/Kubernetes.

Skills

Full-stack development

Distributed systems

React

Python

Go

Kafka

SQL

NoSQL

OO design patterns

AI-assisted development

Stakeholder communication

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or STEM

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tools

Job description

Shipping & handling 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: 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. 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.

For locations outside of the US and Ireland, the employment contracts are powered by Rippling.com.