Lead a backend engineering team to build and scale high throughput distributed systems, manage deliverables, and improve operational processes at Shippo.
Here at Shippo, we are the shipping layer of the internet and we consider ourselves to be one of the core building blocks of e-commerce. Our mission is to make merchants successful through world class shipping. With our products and solutions, we level the playing field by providing our customers with best-in-class solutions that otherwise wouldn’t be available to them. Through Shippo e-commerce businesses, marketplaces, platforms and a variety of logistics infrastructure providers are able to connect to shipping carriers around the world from one API and dashboard. We provide our customers with the most competitive shipping rates, print labels, automated international documents, shipment tracking, facilitate the returns process and more.
How we’ll deliver success:
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a backend engineering team at Shippo. This team builds and scales high throughput distributed systems. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring reliability, performance, and innovation in this critical part of our product.
You will lead a team of backend engineers, collaborate closely with Product Management, Infrastructure, and Carrier Integration teams, and set the technical direction for a domain that has one of the highest throughputs out of all Shippo APIs.
You will also work on streamlining the internal processes that are highly critical to customer and Shippo financials. This includes improving workflows, automation, and tooling for operational data management in partnership with product, finance, and carrier teams.
Shipping & handling responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers
- Foster an inclusive, high-performance culture
- Define and execute the technical roadmap for the Rating API domain
- Ensure scalability, low latency, and high availability of high-volume APIs
- Deliver new rating features, including carrier integrations and advanced pricing models
- Partner with Product, Infrastructure, and Carrier teams to align on priorities and improve performance
- Drive best practices in API design, monitoring, and system resilience
- Own SLAs/SLOs for Rating APIs and ensure operational excellence
- Manage incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
- Champion automation, testing, and CI/CD for faster, safer delivery
- Streamline processes for managing rate cards and adjacent data to ensure accurate customer rates and correct Shippo charges
Requirements
- Must have at least 3+ years of hands-on engineering management experience including managing deliverables, participating with product and design to define MVP, managing performance and growth of reporters and managing stakeholders
- 9+ years of experience in software developmentCoding experience in backend programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Java, Ruby)
- Experience working with Backend frameworks (e.g. Django, FastAPI)
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and familiarity with various design and architectural patterns
- Experience integrating with APIs that use REST, gRPC, SOAP and other technologies
- Experience managing external vendors and integrations with 3rd party APIs
- Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Deep understanding of customer needs and passion for customer success
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Bonus
- Coding experience in database languages (SQL)
- Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB)
- Experience with queue technologies (e.g. Redis, Kafka, NSQ)
Our Compensation Shippolicy:
We believe compensation is a custom experience and are commited to fair and equitable compensation practices. The standard base pay range for this role is min is $175k to a max $238k annual salary. Since we are focused on hiring Shippos Everywhere, we have 2 US pay ranges, a standard compensation range for the majority of the US and a standard +1 compensation range for those who live in areas where the cost of labor is higher, such as NYC and California.
The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: financial budgets, work experience, training, transferable skills, business needs, and market value. The base pay salary ranges are subject to change and may be modified in the future. Total compensation for this role will include, equity, medical, dental, vision and other benefits noted in our Shippos “package” section.
Sail through the process:
Here at Shippo, we celebrate inclusivity and are committed to creating equal access to opportunities for people from all backgrounds, perspectives and geographies. These values define who we are and everything we do. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance, or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please contact us at [email protected]
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.
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Top Skills
Django
DynamoDB
Fastapi
Go
Grpc
Java
Kafka
Nsq
Python
Redis
Rest
Ruby
Soap
SQL
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