Staff Software Engineer: AI-Driven Systems & Leadership

Shipwell; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare and dental insurance

MacBook Pro and tech package

Competitive salary and growth

Job summary

Shipwell is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape core systems of its fast-growing logistics platform. The role blends hands-on coding with technical leadership, emphasizing AI-driven development and multi-agent workflows to accelerate delivery and quality.

You will own critical services, mentor engineers, and collaborate with architecture, product, and DevOps to implement scalable designs, guardrails, and robust testing. Join a team pushing the frontier in logistics technology.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s/Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of professional software development, including 2+ years at a senior/staff level leading technical projects.
• Experience designing, building, and running distributed systems at scale in production.
• Deep expertise in at least one modern language (e.g., Python / Django).
• Strong knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB).
• Hands-on with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containers, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with API design, event-driven architectures, and third-party integrations.
• Familiarity with Agile DevOps and ownership of production deployments (GH Actions or similar).
• Excellent communication skills for explaining tradeoffs to engineers and non-technical partners.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, build, and health of critical Shipwell platform systems.
• Write high-quality, production-grade code and contribute most of your time to building.
• Leverage AI agents and multi-agent workflows to speed up development and testing.
• Create and share custom agents and AI workflows to boost productivity.
• Define best practices and guardrails for AI usage in engineering teams.
• Decompose large problems into actionable technical plans for teams.
• Lead cross-team technical efforts and review project code patterns.
• Collaborate with architecture and product leadership to translate strategy into designs.
• Improve code quality, testing, observability, and operational excellence.
• Identify and fix performance bottlenecks and reliability risks.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, especially in AI tool usage.
• Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python / Django

AI-driven development

Code quality & testing

Mentoring engineers

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

API design

Performance optimization

Communication skills

Education

BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Job description

Shipwell is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape core systems of its fast-growing logistics platform. The role blends hands-on coding with technical leadership, emphasizing AI-driven development and multi-agent workflows to accelerate delivery and quality.

You will own critical services, mentor engineers, and collaborate with architecture, product, and DevOps to implement scalable designs, guardrails, and robust testing. Join a team pushing the frontier in logistics technology.