Software Engineer

A Little About Us

Shippit is Australia’s best connected shipping software. Logistics infrastructure is a sophisticated beast, and we’re not only improving the experience for everyone involved, we’re impacting the planet in a positive manner: deliveries made through our platform are already 100% Carbon Neutral. Proudly Australian founded, we’re truly global in our approach and have the benefit of being a free moving startup with the security of impacting a growing industry that needs some love and attention. 

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The Role & the Team

The Technology team at Shippit make an impact and create the future of Shippit, From deploying to new geographies to building next generation products, and taking the microservices journey, there’s no better time to join a team already strong of several world class software engineers.

As a Software Engineer, you are responsible for participating in the development of product features through all the phases of the software development cycle, working alongside our Product Managers, Product Designers and more senior engineers to create industry leading integrations with our carrier partners.

Day to Day

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performing software solutions that align with Shippit's product goals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, and DevOps to deliver end-to-end features and improvements.
• Contribute to technical planning, architectural decisions, and code reviews to ensure engineering excellence and maintainability.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve software issues in a timely and effective manner.
• Write clean, testable, and efficient code following industry best practices and Shippit’s internal coding standards.
• Participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and other agile ceremonies to help drive continuous improvement.
• Mentor junior engineers by sharing knowledge, providing feedback, and supporting their professional growth.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve performance, reliability, and scalability across the platform.
• Apply current and emerging technologies, trends, and innovations to enhance Shippit’s software stack.
  

Our Ideal Candidate

• Excellent problem solving skills and ability to breakdown business requirements into technical tasks.
• Experience working on web applications, REST APIs, queues, and other infrastructures around it.
• Familiarity with OOP and/or imperative design patterns.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails. Another bonus is if you are familiar with type systems or have experience working with a typed language such as C# or Typescript.
• Familiarity with modern Javascript UI frameworks such as React or Vue.
• Experience working with relational databases, able to design an effective storage schema while keeping the access patterns of the data in mind.
• Comfortable writing tests for the code you write.
• Excellent communications skills and eager to learn.
• Proactive and self-motivated.

Life at Shippit

• Genuine Flexibility and Fully Remote - you don't need to choose between work and a personal life.
• Increased Annual Leave & Birthday Leave - receive increased annual leave and celebrate your birthday

• Enrich your Life - travel and explore the world through the flexibility to temporarily work anywhere, yes anywhere in the world for up to 2 weeks of the year.
• Fuel your Growth Journey - Unlocking your potential with development opportunities that have commercial opportunities.

Feel Valuable

Shippit actively supports a diverse workforce at all levels of the company and we  all embody the core values that make our business unique. We foster a culture of inclusion at Shippit and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. Our mantra is to make ship happen, every single day.

We’re a phenomenal place to work, and we can back that up. Shippit’s been ranked as #6 Best Place to Work by Australian Financial Review in 2023. It doesn’t stop there, we have a whole bunch of accolades we earnt over the years which we are super proud of. 

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