About Shipium

Shipium is on a mission to solve the ‘Prime problem’ that modern retailers face today how to make fast, free, and on-time delivery promises a cornerstone of the customer’s shopping experience. We work with both fast-growing companies and well-known large retailers to cut costs, speed deliveries, and increase flexibility through great APIs, easy integrations into existing infrastructure, and powerful services optimizing the full retail supply chain.

We’re building tech that connects previously fragmented systems and automates complex supply chain decisions to deliver speed and value across operations. 

Founded in 2019 by supply chain technology experts from Amazon and Zulily, the company is on a mission to help every eCommerce company provide its customers a great delivery experience while simultaneously reducing their costs to fulfill orders.

Software Development Engineer

About the role

This position is responsible for working with our executive team, product managers, and other engineers to develop scalable microservices that can meet both the functional and scaling needs of large retail companies in the supply chain space. Responsible for developing both internal and customer-facing software that makes mission-critical decisions for some of the world’s largest retail companies as they move inventory from suppliers to warehouses to shippers to customers using the right programming languages, platforms, and architectures. This role manages the Software Development Life Cycle and operations of these services.

What you'll do,

• Design, develop, test, and the maintain software services and libraries used by our customers to run their supply chains and customer-facing businesses.
• Work interactively with executives and PMs to figure out the right technical path to solve customer problems.
• Document systems and code for use by other engineers on the team using models and diagrams.
• Unit test and load test software to make sure it is correct and meets the performance and scale needs of our customers.
• Debug production issues and get our customers back up and shipping.
• Serve as the technical expert on development projects; work cross-functionally across engineering teams, with product management, and others. 
• Identify and evaluate new technologies for implementation. 
• Understand, seek clarity on requirements and design, and develop code with high quality.
• Analyze code to find causes of errors and revise programs as needed; analyze user needs to determine technical requirements. 
• Participate in software design meetings and project meetings to give timely updates highlighting progress, risks and issues. 
• Consult internally to prototype, refine, test, and debug programs to meet needs; provide proactive support for production systems or customer-facing issues. 
• Follow engineering best practices in SDLC. 
• Other duties as assigned by management 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, and/or 2 - 3 years related experience in a software development or engineering role; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience with processing both streaming and batch data; experience with Relational and/or NoSQL databases; unit testing experience.
• AWS, Springboot, and SQ: (Postgres)

At Shipium, Employees enjoy full medical, dental & vision coverage (with 50% coverage for dependents), optional life insurance and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) retirement plan, fully remote work-from-home options in 25* states, 8 paid weeks of parental leave, 12 paid holidays annually, self-managed vacation time, sick & safety leave, and volunteer time off. 

Shipium is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Women, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. If you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please email Human Resources (hr@shipium.com) and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

This applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and mentorships. Shipium makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business.

*Although based out of Seattle, WA, Shipium is 100% remote in the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington & Wisconsin. 

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