Software Engineer - Backend

At Shipday, our mission is to build better, faster local delivery infrastructure for global e-commerce. Already used in 100+ countries, our customers have processed more than 50 million deliveries on our platform.

As a rapidly growing SaaS company, we are committed to leveraging data-driven insights to drive innovation and optimize our services. We are seeking a talented and driven Backend Developer to join our dynamic team and contribute to our continued success.

As a Backend Developer at Shipday, you will play a critical role in building the core infrastructure of our SaaS platform. You will design and build the core services that keep those deliveries fast, reliable, and secure. Your work will directly impact platform performance, developer velocity, and customer experience.

You’ll be collaborating closely with a multi-disciplinary team including engineering, product, and business development to solve complex problems and create data-driven solutions.

Who we are looking for

• Analytical and Problem Solver: You excel at analyzing data and drawing insights to solve complex problems.
• Inquisitive: You have a natural curiosity and the ability to ask the right questions to understand business needs.
• Detail-Oriented: You pay close attention to data quality and precision.
• Collaborative: You excel in a team environment and are able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Results-Oriented: You focus on delivering actionable insights that have a real impact on the business.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of full-time software development experience 
• Previous experience as a Backend Developer or similar role
• Proficient in Unix, Java, Python
• Familiar with AWS and microservices
• Familiar with databases (e.g. SQL and NoSQL)
• Familiarity with designing and building APIs (eg, REST API’s)
• Familiarity with Map APIs is a plus (Google Maps etc)
• Experience in writing unit tests

Responsibilities

• Work within our product teams to design and develop our core backend that support multiple applications
• Improve our code base through continuous refactoring
• Solve challenging real-time data transfer and synchronization problems
• Implement unit tests
• Be communicative and collaborative