Hybrid Senior Engineer

at Shipt

• Job title: Senior Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $63,100 - $126,300 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Cloud, Kafka, Postgres, Python, Redis, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Birmingham, United States

About the role

• Senior Engineer on the Catalog Ingestion team at Shipt, responsible for designing and optimizing systems. Collaborate with teams to address challenges related to stability and performance.

Responsibilities

• As a Senior Engineer on the Catalog Ingestion team at Shipt, you will be responsible for designing, building, and optimizing the systems and services that power Shipt's Marketplace Catalog platform.
• You will be collaborating with product teams and other engineers to drive the architecture delivery for the success of business goals.
• Every day you will work on a team of 6 engineers to design, develop, test, deploy and maintain application code using Golang, Python, Postgres, Redis, DuckDB and Kafka in a micro-services architecture.
• Additionally, you also have scope to explore and implement LLMs to help aid the retailer launch process.
• You will work with product and cross-functional teams to address various challenges in supporting Catalog applications, ensuring the stability, scalability and performance of applications.
• Additionally, you will actively participate in design discussions with both your team and other development teams and also be on an on-call rotation (including weekends).

Requirements

• 6+ years of software development experience building large, scalable, micro-service applications in the cloud.
• You know how to develop backend software applications using object-oriented programming languages.
• You have experience with or are eager to learn GoLang and Python.
• You have experience with database systems and event-driven messaging systems.
• You are passionate about software development, learning different domain knowledge, and solving problems.
• You are a self-directed individual that enjoys freedom in your work.
• You are able to identify and improve poor-performing code or database queries.
• Strong knowledge of testing fundamentals; unit, integration, end to end, etc.
• Experience leading technical efforts to improve app maintainability, stability, and performance.
• Have a high degree of ownership for all aspects of their services.

Benefits

• Employees (and eligible family members) are covered by medical, dental, vision and more.
• Employees may enroll in our company’s 401k plan.
• Employees will also be eligible to receive discretionary vacation for exempt team members, paid holidays throughout the calendar year and paid sick leave.
• Other compensation includes eligibility for an annual bonus and the potential for restricted stock units based on role.