39 applicants

Company

Shippo · 17 hours ago

Principal Software Engineer (Remote)

United States

Contract

Remote

Lead/Staff

$191K/yr - $258K/yr

10+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Lead the decomposition of a monolithic application into microservices or smaller components, optimizing for scalability and flexibility

Drive the adoption of best practices for testing, including unit testing, integration testing, and automated testing to ensure high code quality and reliability

Implement strategies for observability, monitoring, and logging to enable efficient troubleshooting, performance optimization, and proactive issue identification

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance the developer experience through streamlined processes, development tools, and documentation

Up-skill and guide a team of engineers in software design principles, best practices, and modern architectures

Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to continuously improve the software development lifecycle

Qualification

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Microservices architectureSoftware design principlesTesting methodologiesObservability toolsDistributed architecturesAPIs integrationPythonGolangDevOps toolingAWS/Cloud servicesDjangoFastAPIPerformance tuningConcurrencySecurityData analyticsMessaging systems

Required

10+ years of experience in software development

Experience in decomposing an existing application into service oriented architecture

Extensive experience working in complex distributed architectures

Strong proficiency in software design principles, architecture patterns, and system decomposition strategies

Demonstrated expertise in testing methodologies, including test automation, test-driven development, and continuous integration/continuous deployment

Deep understanding of observability tools, monitoring systems, and logging frameworks

Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders

Proven track record of implementing best practices and driving software modernization initiatives

Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor team members and influence technical decisions

BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Preferred

Prior experience working or interacting with shipping and/or postal carriers

Experience integrating with APIs that use REST and/or gRPC protocols

Experience with Django and/or FastAPI

Experience using Python and/or Golang in production at scale

Interest and experience in performance tuning, concurrency, microservices, security, and data analytics

Experience with messaging systems such as NSQ, Kafka, SQS and Celery

Experience with DevOps tooling such as Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, New Relic, PagerDuty, etc

Experience with AWS/Cloud services such as EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Route 53, Cloud Formation, Cloudflare, IAM, etc

Benefits

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Company

Shippo

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Shippo is a shipping platform with tools for label creation, tracking, and carrier comparisons, saving time and cost.

Founded in 2013

San Francisco, California, USA

201-500 employees

https://goshippo.com

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