Shippo

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Job Description: • Implement, test, and deploy software services with high SLAs that can handle millions of requests a day with a BDD approach. • Verify performance and correctness of systems in response time and throughput. • Refactor existing systems for optimal performance and reuse. • Contribute to design reviews, participate in peer reviews, and build automated test suites for new features, products, and systems. • Work with a sense of urgency and iterate quickly in an Agile process. • Exceptional problem solving skills: demonstrated ability to understand business challenges and translate those into technical solutions. • Join the on-call rotation and respond quickly to system incidents. Requirements: • 6+ years of experience in software development. • Coding experience in at least one server-side programming language (e.g. Python, Go, Java, Ruby) as well as database languages (SQL). • Experience working with a server-side MVC framework (e.g. Django, .NET, Spring, Rails, Phoenix). • Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and familiarity with various design and architectural patterns. • Ability to look ahead to identify opportunities, foster a culture of innovation, and build for scale. • High ownership and attention to system reliability and monitoring. • BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience. • Bonus: Prior experience working or interacting with shipping and/or postal carriers. • Experience integrating with APIs that use SOAP or gRPC protocols. • Experience with Django or FastAPI. • Experience using Python or Golang in production at scale. • Interest and experience in performance tuning, concurrency, microservices, security, and data analytics. • Experience with messaging systems such as NSQ, Kafka, SQS and Celery. • Experience with DevOps tooling such as Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, New Relic, PagerDuty, etc. • Experience with AWS/Cloud services such as EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Route 53, Cloud Formation, Cloudflare, Elastic Beanstalk, IAM, etc. Benefits: • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development