As a Full Stack Engineer, you'll collaborate with our product team and engineers to create and maintain systems that enable our user’s most critical workflows through our web app
Your work will directly impact how customers experience our brand through:
- Modifying our backend systems to enable new features and improve system reliability and scalability.- Delivering high-performance, observable features that create exceptional user experiences- Contributing to well-abstracted, reusable component systems that ensure consistency and quality
Shipping & Handling Responsibilities
- Transform complex requirements into elegant and performant features and products
- Implement end-to-end solutions for new pages, features, and experiences
- Develop and lead execution against both short-term and long-term roadmaps
- Contribute to reusable components that enhance product consistency
- Deliver robust, thoroughly tested code while taking full accountability for features from inception to production
- Contribute to architectural discussions and technical breakdowns that drive the product’s scalability
- Partner with product and design to balance innovation with engineering best practices
- Provide technical insights during planning and review discussions to streamline implementation
- Support QA initiatives to strengthen test automation
- Contribute to tools that accurately model and analyze user behavior
- Build and execute an iterative roadmap for continuous improvements
- Implement tools and telemetry to better understand technical and business impact
Do you tick the boxes?
- 6+ years of experience in software development, with a strong foundation in building and maintaining scalable, distributed systems across both front-end and back-end.
- Experience working across both backend and frontend development, including APIs, services, databases, and modern UI frameworks.
- Proficiency in server-side programming (e.g., Go, Python, Java, Ruby) and SQL databases.
- Familiarity with frontend technologies and frameworks (e.g., React, Vue.js, Angular).
- Solid understanding of software development principles, object-oriented programming, and design patterns.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
- Ability to debug and optimize full-stack applications for performance and scalability.
- Passion for building user-friendly and reliable applications.
- Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Clear communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to different audiences.
- A mindset of continuous learning, craftsmanship, and team success.
- BSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related STEM field (or equivalent experience).
Shippos 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 Remote.com (all Shippo perks still apply - including equity!). What we want to emphasize is that you can be successful at Shippo regardless of location.
We leverage AI to review all resumes during the application phase to ensure fairness, comprehensively evaluate each submission, and mitigate bias. However, all decisions at every stage of the process are made by a real person.