Software Development Engineer, ShipBob
$125-208.3k
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Tech-enabled third-party logistics
Job no longer available
Tech-enabled third-party logistics
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$125-208.3k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide simple, fast and affordable fulfillment for thousands of brands with an international fulfillment network across the world.
Role
Who you are
- 6 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 medium well scoped features and implementation
- Ability to own medium sized features from design to implementation
- A defensive coding mindset with knowledge of OWASP
- Experience in utilizing a modern RDBMS such as MS SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, etc
- Proficiency in a modern JavaScript framework such as Vue.js, Angular, React, etc
- Capability of programming in a modern strongly-typed language such as .NET, Java, Golang, etc
- Familiarity with implementing common DevOps best practices including observability, CI/CD, etc
- Experience writing automated tests, reflecting an understanding of testing principles and strategies
- Knowledge of and experience with a modern cloud provider such as Azure, AWS, GCP, etc
- Experience with service-oriented (SOA) architectures
Desirable
- Experience with event-driven (EDA) architectures
What the job involves
- Become a go-to expert in one area of the codebase; understands the broad architecture of the entire system
- Provides technical advice and weighs in on technical decisions that impact other teams or the company at large. Research and propose new technologies
- Scopes and stages work into well-defined milestones to avoid a monolithic deliverable
- Regularly delivers software on-time and is constantly working to make accurate estimates and deliver on those estimates
- Known for drama-free launches
- Owns the technical testing and performance plan for their projects
- Takes initiative to identify and solve important problems, coordinating with others on cross-cutting technical issues
- Identifies and proactively tackles technical debt before it grows into debt that requires significant up-front work to resolve
- Makes others better through code reviews, thorough documentation, technical guidance, and mentoring or serving as a Tech Lead on a project
- Understands the tradeoffs between technical, analytical and product needs and leads to solutions that take all of these needs into account
- Identifies and proposes strategies around technical problems affecting their team, communicates standards and gets buy-in on solutions
- Additional duties and responsibilities as necessary
Our take
Global logistics company ShipBob fulfills orders and runs two-day shipping and logistics for thousands of direct-to-consumer eCommerce brands in the US. It was created to provide optimized fulfillment for merchants to free up their time to focus on growing their businesses and providing exceptional customer service.
From the start, ShipBob has concentrated on creating a tight product-market fit, and has expanded from there to develop into a franchise model that has helped manage processes at larger scale. This kind of astute and adaptive strategy no doubt contributed to the company landing substantial investment, and enabled it to capitalize on the general lift eCommerce companies received over the pandemic.
With this strong but slow-burn growth, the company can more easily leverage benefits they offer over competitors like Amazon’s FBA service - namely fewer inventory restrictions, lower fees, and packaging without Amazon branding. As the eCommerce boom settles, the company's pace has slowed down, but the general, continued uptick in eCommerce should see it to future success nonetheless.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jun 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Sep 2020
$68m
SERIES D
Total funding: $334.7m
Company benefits
- Remote-first company with a hybrid, flexible work environment
- Up to 12 weeks of paid leave and 2 weeks of unpaid leave to new parents
- Flexible PTO, Quarterly Wellness Days, and Paid Sick Leave
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents
- Short-term and long-term disability, and access to mental health resources
- Referral bonus program
- 401(k) with a company match, and RSUs - vesting starts on the grant date, and no purchase is required
- Pet insurance through Nationwide
Company HQ
West Loop, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Dhruv Saxena
(Co-Founder & CEO)After completing a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, Dhruv became a Research Assistant working in writing code in Matlab, C and C++. They were then an Engineer at Lincoln Electric and Software Developer at InContext Solutions.
Divey Gulati
(Co-Founder & COO)After completing a degree in Computer Engineering and an MBA from the University of Illinois, Divey was a Team Leader for the Bank of America, a Consultant for Deloitte and was a Co-Student Director for the Global Consulting Program.
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