About the role
Senior Software Engineer, Address & Tracking Senior Software Engineer, Address & Tracking About Shippo At Shippo, our vision is bold and clear: we are the shipping layer of the internet. Our mission is to make every merchant successful through excellent shipping, delivering world-class logistics technology and infrastructure. We’re building the backbone of global e-commerce — connecting merchants to carriers worldwide through a single API and intuitive dashboard. As a remote-first and globally distributed team , we believe flexibility fuels trust, autonomy, and performance. Our diverse perspectives — across continents, cultures, and time zones — drive our innovation and enable us to build solutions used by businesses everywhere. We invest in modern, scalable technology so our teams can build, ship, and iterate with confidence. Your impact starts here: every person at Shippo plays a direct role in shaping the infrastructure that powers global commerce and makes shipping simpler for businesses around the world. How we will deliver success together: We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Address Validation, Tracking, and Pickups team! This team is responsible for developing new features, building infrastructure, and maintaining current services. You will become a domain expert on Shippo’s approach to 1) sending updates to customers about the status of their packages and 2) validating address locations across the world. Shipping & handling
responsibilities Implement, test, and deploy software services with high SLAs that can handle millions of requests a day with a BDD approach. Verify and ensure performance and correctness of systems in response time and throughput. Refactor existing systems for optimal performance and reuse. Contribute to design reviews, participate rigorously in peer reviews, and build automated test suites for new features, products, and systems. Work with a sense of urgency and iterate quickly in an Agile process. Exceptional problem solving skills: demonstrated ability to understand business challenges and translate those into technical solutions. Join the on-call rotation and respond quickly to system incidents. Your shipping