Staff Software Development Engineer

As a member of the ShipBob Team, you will...

• Grow with an Ownership Mindset: We champion continuous learning and proactive innovation. Team members are encouraged to identify challenges and take ownership of initiatives that drive merchant, company and personal growth. By tackling complex problems and exploring creative solutions, you won’t just follow a playbook, you’ll be actively building the future of ShipBob.
• Collaborate with Peers and Leaders Alike: ShipBob values collaboration and support, where team members and leaders alike are committed to helping each other succeed. We all set high standards and understand the importance of transparency at all levels. We’ve created an environment where trust, open communication, and mutual respect motivate our teams to reach new heights.
• Experience a High-Performance Culture and Clear Purpose: Our commitment to delivering results creates a goal-driven, high-performance culture where everyone is empowered to contribute to our mission with a clear understanding of their direct impact and accountability. We measure success in tangible ways, allowing each team member to see the positive outcomes of their work and celebrate shared victories.

Location: Remote in India

Role Description

A Staff Software Engineer - Full stack at ShipBob will be responsible for developing the culture of engineering excellence in all our applications from end-to-end. This role reports to Senior Manager, Software Development.

What You’ll Do

• Establishes a culture of engineering excellence.
• Subject-matter expert for Vue/JavaScript and .Net technologies.
• Design, architect, and build performant, reliable, high-quality systems at scale following stated best practices.
• Able to own small-to-medium projects/features end-to-end, including delivering architecture/technical designs, crafting, implementing, unit testing, deploying, and maintaining systems.
• Work multi-functionally with product managers, technical program managers, engineering managers and engineers to deliver high quality products.
• Makes steady progress on tasks; knows when to ask for help in order to get themselves unblocked.
• Ability to become self-sufficient in at least one large area of the system with a high-level understanding of other components.
• Capable of providing on-call support for their area, including systems that they are not familiar with.
• Gives timely, helpful feedback to peers and managers, solicits feedback from others, and is eager to find ways to improve.
• Communicates assumptions and gets clarification on tasks up front to minimize the need for rework.
• Understands how their work fits into the larger project and identifies problems with requirements.
• Partner with QA teams to improve product reliability by enhancing integration, regression, and load testing.
• Coaching and growing junior and mid-level developers through mentorship and leading by example.
• Advising on standard methodologies for crafting and architecting scalable solutions, including design reviews, code reviews, and onboarding new technologies.
• Other duties/responsibilities as necessary.

What You’ll Bring To The Table

• 8+ years of experience.

• Excellent problem-solving skills.

• Excellent programming skills.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Object-oriented mindset.

• Ability to work quickly and collaboratively in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

• Ability to own small, well scoped features and implementation.

• Expertise in product engineering and full stack development.

• Experience in the following:

• JavaScript's fundamentals.

• OOJS.

• Vue/React/Angular2.

• JSON.

• REST.

• .Net.

• C#.

• ASP.NET MVC.

• REST API Development and Practices.

• Databases - Structured (SQL) and Unstructured (Mongo, Elastic).

• Design Patterns.

• Agile software development methodologies.

• Team building expertise.

• Automating infrastructure.

• Automating build process.

• Nice to have:

• A hands-on coding approach to engineering mentorship.

• Ability to own medium-sized features from design to implementation.

• Experience with Redux/flux patterns.

• A defensive coding mindset with knowledge of OWASP.

• A passion for QA and an understanding that testing is not someone else’s responsibility.

• Experience with Vue.js.

• Experience with Relational DB Design.

• Experience with Agile.

• Experience with automating infrastructure.

• Experience with automating the build process.

• Experience with Microsoft Azure.

• Experience with Azure DevOps.

• Experience with Azure Functions.

• Experience with Azure Webjobs.

Perks & Benefits

• Medical, Term & Accidental Insurance
• All Purpose Leave (casual & sick time): 12 days
• Earned Leave: 15 days
• Public Holiday: 12 days
• Generous Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Quarterly Wellness Day
• Work From Home Allowance
• See Our High-Performing Culture >>> Check us out on Instagram (@lifeatshipbob)

We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence; therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions.

About You

The work we do at ShipBob is both challenging and rigorous, which means our environment isn’t the right fit for everyone, and that’s okay. We welcome energetic high performers who thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, results-driven environment. We value individuals who embrace accountability and humility, push boundaries, and are motivated by challenging work. Every team member, no matter their role or tenure, is expected to roll up their sleeves and tackle the complex problems we face in today’s global supply chain.

Learn more about our core values and how we perform at a high level in our day-to-day work on our Culture page (https://www.shipbob.com/careers/culture/).

About Us

ShipBob is a leading global supply chain and fulfillment technology platform designed for SMB and Mid-Market ecommerce merchants to provide them access to best-in-class capabilities and to deliver a delightful shopper experience. Merchants can outsource their entire fulfillment operations, utilize ShipBob’s proprietary warehouse management system for in-house fulfillment, or take advantage of a hybrid solution across ShipBob’s dozens of fulfillment center network in the United States, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. ShipBob is backed by leading investors like Menlo Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners, and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and is one of the fastest-growing tech companies headquartered in Chicago.

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