\n​Here at Shippo, we are the shipping layer of the internet and we consider ourselves to be one of the core building blocks of e-commerce.Our mission is to make merchants successful through world class shipping. With our products and solutions, we level the playing field by providing our customers with best-in-class solutions that otherwise wouldn’t be available to them. Through Shippo, e-commerce businesses, marketplaces, platforms and a variety of logistics infrastructure providers are able to connect to shipping carriers around the world from one API and dashboard. We provide our customers with the most competitive shipping rates, print labels, automated international documents, shipment tracking, facilitate the returns process and more.\n\n\nWe are seeking a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer with expertise in decomposing monolithic applications within a complex environment. The ideal candidate will lead an ongoing effort to break down our application into smaller, more manageable services while implementing best practices for testing, observability, and enhancing the developer experience. This role is crucial in driving the modernization and optimization of our software architecture to align with industry standards and improve overall system performance.\n\n\nShipping & handling responsibilities:\n\n\n- Lead the decomposition of a monolithic application into microservices or smaller components, optimizing for scalability and flexibility.\n- Drive the adoption of best practices for testing, including unit testing, integration testing, and automated testing to ensure high code quality and reliability.\n- Implement strategies for observability, monitoring, and logging to enable efficient troubleshooting, performance optimization, and proactive issue identification.\n- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance the developer experience through streamlined processes, development tools, and documentation.\n- Up-skill and guide a team of engineers in software design principles, best practices, and modern architectures.\n- Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to continuously improve the software development lifecycle.\n\n\n\nDo you tick the ​​boxes​​?\n* 10+ years of experience in software development\n* Experience in decomposing an existing application into service oriented architecture\n* Extensive experience working in complex distributed architectures\n* Strong proficiency in software design principles, architecture patterns, and system decomposition strategies\n* Demonstrated expertise in testing methodologies, including test automation, test-driven development, and continuous integration/continuous deployment\n* Deep understanding of observability tools, monitoring systems, and logging frameworks\n* Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders\n* Proven track record of implementing best practices and driving software modernization initiatives\n* Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor team members and influence technical decisions\n* BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.\n\n\n\nBonus\n* Prior experience working or interacting with shipping and/or postal carriers\n* Experience integrating with APIs that use REST and/or gRPC protocols\n* Experience with Django and/or FastAPI.\n* Experience using Python and/or Golang in production at scale\n* Interest and experience in performance tuning, concurrency, microservices, security, and data analytics\n* Experience with messaging systems such as NSQ, Kafka, SQS and Celery\n* Experience with DevOps tooling such as Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, New Relic, PagerDuty, etc\n* Experience with AWS/Cloud services such as EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Route 53, Cloud Formation, Cloudflare, IAM, etc.\n\n\n\nWhat's in the Shippo package:\n* Healthcare coverage for medical, dental, and vision (90% covered by the company, incl. dependents). Pets coverage is also available!\n* Take-as-much-as-you-need vacation policy & flexible working \n* One week-long company wide winter shutdown \n* 3 Volunteer Days Off (VTOs)\n* WFH stipend to set up your home office\n* Charity donation match up to $100\n* Dedicated programs, coaching, tools, and resources for your professional and career growth as well as an individual learning stipend for your personal and focused growth\n* Fun 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\n\n\n\n\n\n$191 - $258 a year\n\nOur Compensation Shippolicy:\nWe believe compensation is a custom experience and are commited to fair and equitable compensation practices. The standard base pay range for this role is min $191k to a max $258k annual salary (standard range). We tend to anchor our offers in the mid point ($225k). 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.\n\n\nSail through 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 [email protected]\n\n\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 Remote.com (all Shippo perks still apply - including equity!). What we want to emphasize is that you can be successful at Shippo regardless of location. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, Django, Testing, DevOps, Cloud, API, Golang and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nUnited States

\nCompany Mission\n\nAktos is a seed-stage, Vertical SaaS Fintech startup looking for a Founding Full Stack Engineer (70/30 Backend leaning) who will play a key role in building the Operating System that powers the $18B Credit Collections industry. \n\nCredit Collectors play an overlooked yet integral part of our financial ecosystem. They help Consumers settle their debts and improve their credit scores— granting them clean states to start over. Collectors help critical businesses like doctor's offices and local governments, who deal with high payment default risk, secure their revenue streams and ensure their continued survival. \n\nIn truth, Collectors have incredibly interesting, multi-faceted jobs. They are often one part sales person, one part therapist, and one part detective in their mission to recover funds. At Aktos, we are building a modern software platform that caters to Collectors' unique workflows, and make the credit recovery process a more positive experience for all parties.\n\nOur Team\n\nAktos was founded by seasoned Product and Engineering leaders who have worked at companies such as Zenefits, TikTok, Meta, LinkedIn, Google, Apple, Amazon, WeWork, Flatiron Health (acquired by Booking.com). We are experts at building, launching, and scaling word-class software platforms— rest assured, if you join us you will be working with and learning from the best.\n\nOur Stack:\n\n\n* Frontend - ReactJS, Redux, RTK Query\n\n* Backend - Django, DRF, Postgres\n\n* DevOps - Docker, Github Actions, Terraform, AWS\n\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\nWork directly with our CEO, CTO, and a handful of other engineers to build full stack features and improvements to the product\n\nWork across the entire stack using cutting edge frameworks, tools, and own execution\n\nTake true end-to-end ownership of your work and lead key components of our product roadmap\n\n* Refine the SDLC & CI/CD pipelines\n\n* Maintaining our AWS infrastructure\n\n\n\n\nWho You Are\n\n\nComfortable with autonomy, ownership and responsibility\n\nYou care more about getting it right, than being right. Love learning, asking questions and are comfortable asking for help when you get stuck\n\nJack-of-all trades; Expert in one - You can do anything from optimizing SQL query to writing maintainable CSS and everything in between, but you still have a preferred part of the stack\n\n\n\n\nRequirements\n\n\n* 5+ Years of Software Development Experience\n\n* Professional experience with Python (5+ years required)\n\n* Professional experience with Django (3+ years required)\n\n* Professional experience with JavaScript [React/Redux experience preferred]\n\n* Strong fundamental understanding and usage of a RDBMS [Postgres preferred]\n\n* In-depth knowledge and hands on experience with AWS [Terraform experience preferred]\n\nComfortable working full-stack\n\nSolid engineering fundamentals and passion for high quality code\n\nProduct intuition, user empathy, ability to make sound UX decisions\n\nStrong work ethic, end-to-end ownership mentality\n\n\n\n\nPerks and Benefits:\n\n\nCompetitive salary with employee stock options, bonus and access to a 401K\n\nMedical, dental and vision coverage\n\nRemote-first company\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to SaaS, Python, Django, JavaScript, CSS, Senior, Sales, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nCompany Mission\n\nAktos is a seed-stage, Vertical SaaS Fintech startup looking for a Founding Full Stack Engineer (70/30 Backend leaning) who will play a key role in building the Operating System that powers the $18B Credit Collections industry. \n\nCredit Collectors play an overlooked yet integral part of our financial ecosystem. They help Consumers settle their debts and improve their credit scores— granting them clean states to start over. Collectors help critical businesses like doctor's offices and local governments, who deal with high payment default risk, secure their revenue streams and ensure their continued survival. \n\nIn truth, Collectors have incredibly interesting, multi-faceted jobs. They are often one part sales person, one part therapist, and one part detective in their mission to recover funds. At Aktos, we are building a modern software platform that caters to Collectors' unique workflows, and make the credit recovery process a more positive experience for all parties.\n\nOur Team\n\nAktos was founded by seasoned Product and Engineering leaders who have worked at companies such as Zenefits, TikTok, Meta, LinkedIn, Google, Apple, Amazon, WeWork, Flatiron Health (acquired by Booking.com). We are experts at building, launching, and scaling word-class software platforms— rest assured, if you join us you will be working with and learning from the best.\n\nOur Stack:\n\n\n* Frontend - ReactJS, Redux, RTK Query\n\n* Backend - Django, DRF, Postgres\n\n* DevOps - Docker, Github Actions, Terraform, AWS, Postgres\n\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\nWork directly with our CEO, CTO, and a handful of other engineers to build full stack features and improvements to the product\n\nWork across the entire stack using cutting edge frameworks, tools, and own execution\n\nTake true end-to-end ownership of your work and lead key components of our product roadmap\n\n* Refine the SDLC & CI/CD pipelines\n\n* Maintaining our AWS infrastructure\n\n\n\n\nWho You Are\n\n\nComfortable with autonomy, ownership and responsibility\n\nYou care more about getting it right, than being right. Love learning, asking questions and are comfortable asking for help when you get stuck\n\nJack-of-all trades; Expert in one - You can do anything from optimizing SQL query to writing maintainable CSS and everything in between, but you still have a preferred part of the stack\n\n\n\n\nRequirements\n\n\n* 5+ Years of Software Development Experience\n\n* Professional experience with Python (5+ years required)\n\n* Professional experience with Django (3+ years required)\n\n* Professional experience with JavaScript [React/Redux experience preferred]\n\n* Strong fundamental understanding and usage of a RDBMS [Postgres preferred]\n\n* In-depth knowledge and hands on experience with AWS [Terraform experience preferred]\n\nComfortable working full-stack\n\nSolid engineering fundamentals and passion for high quality code\n\nProduct intuition, user empathy, ability to make sound UX decisions\n\nStrong work ethic, end-to-end ownership mentality\n\n\n\n\nPerks and Benefits:\n\n\nCompetitive salary with employee stock options, bonus and access to a 401K\n\nMedical, dental and vision coverage\n\nRemote-first company\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to SaaS, Python, Django, JavaScript, CSS, Senior, Sales, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nCompany Mission\n\nAktos is a seed-stage, Vertical SaaS Fintech startup looking for a Full Stack Engineer (70/30 Backend leaning) who will play a key role in building the Operating System that powers the $18B Credit Collections industry. \n\nCredit Collectors play an overlooked yet integral part of our financial ecosystem. They help Consumers settle their debts and improve their credit scores— granting them clean states to start over. Collectors help critical businesses like doctor's offices and local governments, who deal with high payment default risk, secure their revenue streams and ensure their continued survival. \n\nIn truth, Collectors have incredibly interesting, multi-faceted jobs. They are often one part sales person, one part therapist, and one part detective in their mission to recover funds. At Aktos, we are building a modern software platform that caters to Collectors' unique workflows, and make the credit recovery process a more positive experience for all parties.\n\nOur Team\n\nAktos was founded by seasoned Product and Engineering leaders who have worked at companies such as Zenefits, TikTok, Meta, LinkedIn, Google, Apple, Amazon, WeWork, Flatiron Health (acquired by Booking.com). We are experts at building, launching, and scaling word-class software platforms— rest assured, if you join us you will be working with and learning from the best.\n\nOur Stack:\n\n\n* Frontend - ReactJS, Redux, RTK Query\n\n* Backend - Django, DRF, Postgres\n\n* DevOps - Docker, Github Actions, Terraform, AWS\n\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\nWork directly with our CEO, CTO, and a handful of other engineers to build full stack features and improvements to the product\n\nWork across the entire stack using cutting edge frameworks, tools, and own execution\n\nTake true end-to-end ownership of your work and lead key components of our product roadmap\n\n* Refine the SDLC & CI/CD pipelines\n\n* Maintaining our AWS infrastructure\n\n\n\n\nWho You Are\n\n\nComfortable with autonomy, ownership and responsibility\n\nYou care more about getting it right, than being right. Love learning, asking questions and are comfortable asking for help when you get stuck\n\nJack-of-all trades; Expert in one - You can do anything from optimizing SQL query to writing maintainable CSS and everything in between, but you still have a preferred part of the stack\n\n\n\n\nRequirements\n\n\n* 5+ Years of Software Development Experience\n\n* Professional experience with Python (5+ years required)\n\n* Professional experience with Django (5+ years required)\n\n* Professional experience with JavaScript [React/Redux experience preferred]\n\n* Strong fundamental understanding and usage of a RDBMS [Postgres preferred]\n\n* In-depth knowledge and hands on experience with AWS [Terraform experience preferred]\n\nComfortable working full-stack\n\nSolid engineering fundamentals and passion for high quality code\n\nProduct intuition, user empathy, ability to make sound UX decisions\n\nStrong work ethic, end-to-end ownership mentality\n\n\n\n\nPerks and Benefits:\n\n\nCompetitive salary with employee stock options, bonus and access to a 401K\n\nMedical, dental and vision coverage\n\nRemote-first company\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to SaaS, Python, Django, JavaScript, CSS, Sales, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nArgentina, Antioquia, Colombia