
Software Engineer III, Labels (Remote)
ShippoPosted 3/19/2025

Software Engineer III, Labels (Remote)
Shippo
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Job Summary
Shippo is seeking a Software Engineer III to join their Labels team, responsible for building and maintaining label core API and carrier integrations. The role involves designing, implementing, testing, and deploying software services with high SLAs, ensuring scalability and maintainability through microservices adoption. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience in software development, strong interpersonal skills, and a solid understanding of object-oriented programming and design patterns. They should also have experience working with server-side programming languages, database languages, and server-side MVC frameworks. Shippo offers remote work options, flexible travel stipends, and equity in a fast-growing company.
Job Description
Shipping & handling 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
- Collaborate with business teams and provide early input to new product ideas and functionality
- Experience being on-call and able to respond quickly to system incidents
- Champion testing procedures and automation in support of vertical and horizontal scale.
- Assist with hands-on work in gathering business requirements, development, and verification.
Do you tick the boxes?
- 6+ years of experience in software development
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with all levels of the organization.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and familiarity with various design and architectural patterns
- Deep understanding of customer needs and passion for customer success
- Exhibit core behaviors focused on craftsmanship, continuous improvement, and team success
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Advanced/Fluent English
Bonus
- Prior experience working or interacting with shipping and/or postal carriers
- Experience using GoLang and Python in production
- Familiarity with microservices architectures
- Experience integrating with APIs that use REST, SOAP, gRPC and other technologies
- Interest and experience in performance tuning, concurrency, microservices, security, data analytics, and web stack
- Experience with Django
- Past experience and success in building scalable APIs or services
- Experience with DevOps tooling such as Docker, Terraform, CircleCI, SumoLogic, PagerDuty, etc
- Experience with AWS/Cloud services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, Route 53, Cloud Formation, Cloudflare, Elastic Beanstalk, IAM, etc.