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Our mission is to make every merchant successful through excellent shipping, delivering world-class logistics technology and infrastructure. We’re building the backbone of global e-commerce - connecting merchants to carriers worldwide through a single API and intuitive dashboard.\nAs a remote-first and globally distributed team, we believe flexibility fuels trust, autonomy, and performance. Our diverse perspectives - across continents, cultures, and time zones - drive our innovation and enable us to build solutions used by businesses everywhere. We invest in modern, scalable technology so our teams can build, ship, and iterate with confidence.\nYour impact starts here: every person at Shippo plays a direct role in shaping the infrastructure that powers global commerce and makes shipping simpler for businesses around the world.\nHow we will deliver success together:\nWe are looking for a Software Engineer III to join our WebApp - Lighthouse team. Our business is rapidly expanding and we develop capabilities to optimize our customers' experience by reducing their cognitive load in shipping and fulfillment. We are also the stewards of Shippo’s front platform to ensure optimal experiences are delivered to customers. As a Software Engineer III, you will be working together with a group of highly talented engineers and partnering with product managers and designers to deliver features to meet our customers’ demands. Stay connected to customer impact and contribute to decisions that balance technical quality with user experience.\nShipping & handling responsibilities\nSystem Design & Development: Build and maintain the full stack web application features including scalable, distributed microservices.\nTechnical Leadership: Own complex features from technical design to production deployment, adhering to high-performance and reliability standards.\nEngineering Excellence: Enhance and support core web application stack, ensuring performance and accuracy for high-throughput traffic.\nOperational Health: Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot production incidents, and maintain high SLAs.\nCollaboration & Mentorship: Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Infrastructure, Designer, API Partners) and setting high engineering standards.\nInfrastructure: Improve CI/CD pipelines, container-based software distribution (Docker, Kubernetes), and observability.\nYour shipping requirements\nMinimum 7+ years of experience in software development\nExperience building and maintaining highly available, scalable web applications\nProficiency in programming language and frameworks commonly used in full-stack development on distributed systems. (e.g.,React, Python, Go, Kafka, SQL, NoSQL)\nStrong understanding of software architecture, object-oriented programming, and design patterns.\nExperience with AI assisted development workflow.\nCan effectively communicate to stakeholders across different organizations within the company\nStrong interpersonal and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams.\nBSc in a STEM field, with a preference for computer science and software engineering\nBonus\nExperience with the shipping and logistics industry.\nExperience with shipping AI powered customer facing features\nWhat is in the Shippo Package?\nHealthcare coverage for medical, dental, and vision (90% covered by the company, incl. dependents). Pets coverage is also available!\nTake-as-much-as-you-need vacation policy & flexible working hours\nOne week-long company wide winter slow down \n3 Volunteer Days Off (VTOs)\nWFH stipend to set up your home office\nCharity donation match up to $100\nDedicated programs, coaching, tools, and resources for your professional and career growth as well as an individual learning stipend for your personal and focused growth\nFun team in person time through our Shippos Everywhere program which includes regular team and company off-sites throughout the year as well as local Shippos gatherings\nCompensation\nOur CompensationShippolicy:\nWe believe compensation is a custom experience and are commited to fair and equitable compensation practices. The standard base pay range for this role in the U.S is min is $133k to a max $181k annual salary (we tend to anchor our offers at the mid point $157k). Since we are focused on hiring Shippos Everywhere, we have 2 US pay ranges, a standard compensation range for the majority of the US and a standard +1 compensation range for those who live in areas where the cost of labor is higher, such as NYC and California.\nThe actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: financial budgets, work experience, training, transferable skills, business needs, and market value. The base pay salary ranges are subject to change and may be modified in the future. Total compensation for this role will include, equity, medical, dental, vision and other benefits noted in our Shippos “package” section.\nSailthrough the process:\nHere at Shippo, we celebrate inclusivity and are committed to creating equal access to opportunities for people from all backgrounds, perspectives and geographies. These values define who we are and everything we do. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance, or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please contact us at \nShippos in the wild:\nOur people, much like the packages we help ship, are all over the world. This means, through our remote-first program, “Shippos Everywhere”, our roles can be based anywhere in the US with the exception of Delaware, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Hawaii, New Mexico and West Virginia and many roles can be based internationally.\nFor locations outside of the US and Ireland, the employment contracts are powered by Rippling.com.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5895,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible schedule","Home office"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Commerce","Transportation & Logistics","Marketplaces"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-15T00:43:13Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":76,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.844,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":15,"expected_fill_days":42,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":181000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/shippo-software-engineer-iii-webapp-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/shippo-software-engineer-iii-webapp-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-15T07:58:57Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":12137,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":58594},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=58594"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fshippo-software-engineer-iii-webapp-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fshippo-software-engineer-iii-webapp-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fshippo-software-engineer-iii-webapp-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/shippo-software-engineer-iii-webapp-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fshippo-software-engineer-iii-webapp-2"}]}