Engineering Manager

Shippo

full-time

Posted on: 8/29/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $175,000 - $238,000 per year

SeniorLead

DjangoDynamoDBGoGRPCJavaKafkaNoSQLPythonRedisRubySOAPSQL

About the role

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.
How we’ll deliver success:
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a backend team working on and important and business critical domains at Shippo. This team plays a foundational role in enabling scalable, reliable, and efficient shipping solutions for our customers worldwide

Must have at least 3+ years of hands-on engineering management experience including managing deliverables, participating with product and design to define MVP, managing performance and growth of reporters and managing stakeholders
Has managed teams of 8+ people for many of those years
9+ years of experience in software development
Coding experience in backend programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Java, Ruby)
Experience working with Backend frameworks (e.g. Django, FastAPI)
Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and familiarity with various design and architectural patterns
Experience integrating with APIs that use REST, gRPC, SOAP and other technologies
Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
Deep understanding of customer needs and passion for customer success
BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience