Role Description

• Design and implement well-scoped, reusable platform components used by the CCAP team to build carrier integrations.
• Contribute to integration “recipes,” templates, shared modules, and internal tooling under the guidance of Senior Engineers.
• Partner with CCAP engineers to identify recurring integration challenges and contribute improvements within the existing platform direction.
• Follow established architectural patterns and engineering standards to ensure consistency, maintainability, and clarity.
• Own the end-to-end quality of your contributions, including design, implementation, testing, release, and monitoring.
• Write modular, reusable Python code that supports multiple integrations and reduces duplication.
• Improve and maintain documentation to make integration patterns and platform components easier to understand and adopt.
• Use AI tools in daily workflows to improve development speed, code quality, refactoring, and documentation.
• Apply critical analysis to identify inefficiencies in code or workflows and propose practical, incremental improvements.
• Participate actively in code reviews, design discussions, and sprint planning, seeking and incorporating feedback.
• Contribute to CI/CD practices and automated testing to support reliable integration and delivery.
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation where applicable and respond to operational issues within your scope of ownership.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years working with production code in Python.
• Experience building backend services or shared components in production environments.
• Experience writing reusable code and shared modules used across multiple features or services.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and common design patterns.
• Experience working with APIs (REST, SOAP, gRPC, or similar).
• Experience with at least one server-side framework (e.g., Django, FastAPI, Spring, Rails, Phoenix).
• Strong debugging skills and ability to perform root cause analysis within your domain.
• Demonstrated use of AI tools as part of daily engineering workflows to improve productivity and quality.
• Ability to critically evaluate existing implementations and suggest pragmatic improvements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
• Ability to understand business context and how platform improvements support integration velocity and reliability.
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Requirements

• Experience contributing to internal platforms, SDKs, or shared libraries.
• Experience working with integration patterns such as adapters, translators, messaging, or routing.
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Temporal, Prefect, Kestra).
• Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka, SQS, NSQ, or Celery.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms.
• Experience improving developer experience (DX) through documentation, templates, or lightweight tooling improvements.

Benefits

• Here at Shippo, we celebrate inclusivity and are committed to creating equal access to opportunities for people from all backgrounds, perspectives and geographies.
• 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 accommodations@shippo.com.

Company Description

• Our people, much like the packages we help ship, are all over the world.
• 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.
• Many roles can be based internationally.
• For locations outside of the US and Ireland, the employment contracts are powered by Rippling.com (all Shippo perks still apply - including equity!).
• You can be successful at Shippo regardless of location.