Job Url: https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/goshippo/jobs/staff-software-engineer-united-states-remote Job Description: Shippo Website LinkedIn All Job Openings Shippo is a shipping software company that provides a comprehensive platform for e-commerce businesses to manage their shipping needs. With integrations for over 40 global carriers and numerous store platforms, Shippo offers small businesses and developers the tools to ship efficiently and at scale. Their offerings include a shipping API, address validation, tracking, insurance, and label creation, all with an emphasis on cost savings and seamless integration. Shippo is designed to simplify the logistics workflow for enterprises, marketplaces, and 3PLs, providing developer-friendly documentation and strong customer support. Multi-carrier shipping • Shipping Labels • Shipment Tracking • Shipping API & Dashboard • Global Shipping 201 - 500 employees Founded 2013 🔌 API 🛍️ eCommerce Staff Software Engineer 23 hours ago 🇺🇸 United States – Remote 💵 $175k - $238k / year ⏰ Full Time 🔴 Lead 🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer 🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor AWS Azure Cloud Distributed Systems Django Docker DynamoDB Google Cloud Platform GraphQL GRPC Java Kubernetes NoSQL Python Ruby Ruby on Rails Spring SQL Terraform Go .NET Apply Now Receive Emails with Similar Jobs Report problem 📋 Description • Lead, and hire a high-caliber team of software engineers to solve company goals while remaining hands-on • Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement • Establish a sense of urgency and direction, set expectations with the team and individuals • Work closely with product management, analysts, architects, engineering leads, and business stakeholders to define requirements, guide product and architectural vision, lead key technical and design discussions, and prioritize delivery efforts • Anticipate and redirect engineering efforts that aren't or won’t deliver customer value • Contribute to the technical success of the company by providing architectural guidance to Shippo’s next generation app product • Mentor more junior engineers on engineering best practices • Exceptional problem solving skills: demonstrate ability to understand business challenges and translate those into technical solutions. 🎯 Requirements • 10+ years of hands-on engineering experience building high volume distributed systems • 4+ years of experience leading engineering teams and defining technical strategy • 4+ years in native cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) • 4+ years with NoSQL technologies (DynamoDB) and event-driven cloud architectures (queues, serverless compute, data streaming) • Proficiency in microservice architectural patterns • Consistent and demonstrable success designing and delivering scalable APIs, services, and distributed systems • Mastery in server-side languages (Go, Python, Java, Ruby) and database languages (SQL) • Proficiency with server-side frameworks (Django, .NET, Spring, Rails, Phoenix) • Mastery of OOP, design patterns, and architectural best practices; ability to guide others in applying them • Advanced expertise in building APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) • Proficiency with DevOps tooling (Docker, Terraform, CircleCI, New Relic, PagerDuty) • Expertise with AWS/Cloud Services • Consistent leadership in debugging, performance optimization, and system scalability • Exceptional communication skills; able to align engineers, cross-functional peers, and stakeholders • Customer-centric mindset with the ability to balance technical trade-offs against business impact • BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience 🏖️ Benefits • Total compensation includes equity, medical, dental, vision and other benefits noted in our Shippos “package” section. • Remote-first program “Shippos Everywhere” (roles can be based anywhere in the US; many roles can be based internationally). • Employment contracts for locations outside of the US and Ireland powered by Remote.com (all Shippo perks still apply - including equity!). • Reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process (contact accommodations@goshippo.com).