As a Full Stack Engineer, you will build end-to-end solutions, maintain performance and scalability, and collaborate with product teams to enhance user workflows.
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, and platforms 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.
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
Shipping & Handling responsibilities:
- Translate complex requirements into elegant, performant features and products
- Build end-to-end solutions spanning APIs, services, databases, and modern UIs
- Deliver robust, well-tested code and own features from design through production
- Contribute reusable components that improve product consistency and scalability
- Participate in architectural discussions and technical breakdowns
- Provide technical insights in planning and review to streamline deliverySupport QA by strengthening test automation
- Participate in on-call rotation and respond quickly to incidents
- Implement telemetry and tools to analyze user behavior, technical impact, and business outcomes
Requirements
- 4+ years of software development experience, including building and maintaining distributed systems
- Experience working across both backend and frontend development
- Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript
- Strong experience with modern UI frameworks (React with hooks and context API), libraries (Redux, Tanstack Query, MUI), and testing frameworks (Jest, Testing Library, Playwright)
- Familiarity with server-side programming (Python, Go, Java, Ruby) and microservice frameworks (FastAPI, RESTful services)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
- Solid understanding of software design principles, OOP, and design patterns
- Ability to debug and optimize full-stack applications for performance and scalability
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams
- Passion for user-friendly, reliable applications and a mindset of continuous learning
- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Bonus
- Experience in shipping or logistics
- API integration experience (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)
- Familiarity with Django
- Experience with DevOps tools (Docker, Terraform, CircleCI, New Relic, PagerDuty)
- AWS/Cloud services expertise.
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. What we want to emphasize is that you can be successful at Shippo regardless of location.
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
CircleCI
Docker
Fastapi
GCP
Go
Java
JavaScript
Jest
Kubernetes
Mui
New Relic
Pagerduty
Playwright
Python
React
Redux
Ruby
Tanstack Query
Terraform
Testing Library
Typescript
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