Shippo is looking for a Software Engineer III to join their Labels team to build and maintain Shippo's core label API and critical carrier integrations, ensuring scalability and high availability for millions of daily requests.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in software development
- Past experience and success building and supporting scalable APIs, services, or applications
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and familiarity with various design and architectural patterns.
- Coding experience in server-side programming languages (e.g. Go, Python, Java, Ruby) as well as database languages (SQL)
- Experience working with server-side MVC frameworks (e.g. Django, .NET, Spring, Rails, Phoenix)
- Prior experience working or interacting with shipping and/or postal carriers
- Experience using GoLang and Python in production
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and deploy software services with high SLAs and that can handle millions of requests a day
- Ensure scalability and maintainability through microservices adoption, decoupling of concerns and data model, queuing of jobs and application layering and container-based software distribution.
- Continue to build out and enhance our CI/CD pipeline for smooth and safe production releases via automated testing and verification.
- Verify and ensure performance and correctness of systems in response time and throughput.
- Design and maintain database schema for large scale and performant services
- Architect systems and refactor existing systems for optimal performance and reuse
- Participate in peer reviews and testing and contribute to automated test suites and in design reviews for new features, products, and systems
Other
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with all levels of the organization.
- Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. You are adept at communicating relevant information clearly and concisely.
- Deep understanding of customer needs and passion for customer success.
- Ability to look ahead to identify opportunities, foster a culture of innovation, and build for scale.
- Exhibit core behaviors focused on craftsmanship, continuous improvement, and team success
