Backend Software Engineer, Shippeo

PHP Symfony

Salary not provided

PHP

Kibana

RabbitMQ

Prometheus

Grafana

Symfony

Senior and Expert level

Paris

Remote from France

Supply chain visibility platform

Job no longer available

Supply chain visibility platform

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseLogisticsFreightAnalyticsSupply ChainSaaSMobile

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

PHP

Kibana

RabbitMQ

Prometheus

Grafana

Symfony

Senior and Expert level

Paris

Remote from France

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseLogisticsFreightAnalyticsSupply ChainSaaSMobile

Company mission

To inspire the world’s shippers and carriers to run more collaborative, automated, sustainable, profitable and customer-centric supply chains.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years of experience in software engineering in a high-paced, large-scale environment
Expert in PHP Symfony and relational + NoSQL databases
Experience with message brokers (e.g., RabbitMQ), CI tools, and monitoring stacks like Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana
Strong understanding of CQRS, Event Sourcing, and DDD principles
Proven experience managing high-scalability challenges
Pragmatic problem solver with a "build it, run it, monitor it" mindset
Fluent in French and English

What the job involves

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our team, where you’ll tackle the complexities of scalability and build high-availability integrations
Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager, you'll focus on improving our technical architecture, developing new features, and ensuring production-readiness at scale
Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of scalable solutions
Develop server-side application logic using PHP Symfony in an event-driven environment
Mentor peers and guide technical decisions, with a focus on scalability and performance
Collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to design performant, scalable APIs
Address scalability challenges, handling tens of millions of API calls
Implement modern architectural patterns: DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Microservices
Document APIs, processes, and database schemas for high-performance systems
Ensure optimal performance and availability across all services

Our take

Shippeo is a shipping software and services company, with a platform that integrates hundreds of transportation management systems. Beyond tracking shipments, Shippeo's visibility platform gives supply chains data-driven transparency to meet customer demands even in uncertain and challenging market conditions.

Shippeo sits between retailers and consumers, helping sellers ship goods to buyers quickly and, it promises, inexpensively. The startup works with shipping partners around the world and plugs into the merchant worlds of Amazon, Shopify, Wix and others. Shippeo's customer base includes the likes of Coca-Cola HBC, Yamaha, Kuehne+Nagel, Total and Hager.

In 2022, Shippeo partnered with Everysens to enhance its multimodal transport visibility offering and launched its Carbon Visibility solution for tracking emissions. The company continues to grow, undertaking a huge expansion supported by its $30 million strategic funding round raised in 2025.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

5% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.6)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Jan 2025

$30m

LATE VC

Oct 2022

$40m

LATE VC

Total funding: $137.3m

Company benefits

Full remote possible
Laptop
Strong team spirit and regular team building events
Swile Card (France)
Health Insurance paid 100%

Company HQ

Porte-Saint-Denis, Paris, France

Leadership

Pierre Khoury

(CEO & Co-founder)

Experience as Partner at Vermeer Capital for 16 years. Co-founded Shippeo in 2015.

Lucien Besse

(COO & Co-founder)

Experience as Private Equity Analyst at Vermeer Capital, and is an active investor at Numeral.

David Barré

(CTO & Co-founder)

Worked at Sopra Steria Consulting as a Consultant/Manager for 11 years, before co-founding Shippeo.

Brice Hua

(VP of Product & Co-founder)

Experience as an Intern at CDC Enterprises and Deutsche Bank.

Thibaut Morlot

(VP of Operations & Co-founder)

Experienced in investment banking at Natixis and Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking.

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