Backend Engineer - Guided ActionsAbout Us

Shipwell is fundamentally changing the shipping and logistics industry by building a connected platform that provides solutions for your entire supply chain. We are streamlining the way shippers, 3PLs, and carriers have operated for decades using ground-breaking technology to provide automation and workflow solutions in an established industry that comprises over 5% GDP.  Shipwell created the first truly connected digital supply chain platform that provides real-time connectivity, visibility, automation, and bullet-proof APIs. We are a Series B startup that is backed by world-class investors, such as First Round Capital, Fifth Wall, and Georgian Partners.

About the Team:

Guided Actions is our data science squad and is where a lot of the magic at Shipwell happens. We're a cross functional team that includes a PM, backend engineer, frontend engineer, qa engineer, product designer, business analyst, and data scientists. Our major projects include pricing intelligence, predicted ETAs, and shipment assembly (load and route optimization). We'd love for you to join us and build the future.

 What you'll do when you get here:

• Consistently ship high-quality code to production
• Bring our data science research to life
• Build for perf and high availability
• Ensure that our models are well fed with "medium sized data" (a few TB) and a clean ML pipeline
• Maintain quality standards. Stay up to date on best practices and enforce them with code reviews
• Write beautiful Python microservices and workers that rely on our event architecture
• Work closely with product to refine ideas and turn hifi designs into reality
• Proactively find problems or gaps in our codebase and fix them
• Own your apps: Fix, bugs, talk to users, and regularly update your existing applications
• Write unit tests

What we’re looking for:

• Senior and mid-level candidates
• A self-starter that can get stuff done with little supervision. We expect for you to fill in the blanks and work with your teammates to get it launched.
• Ability to empathize with our users and really listen to their requirements
• Strong CS fundamentals, deep experience in a modern backend (Django, Rails, Spring), database modeling (ORM or raw), and a desire to learn and master your craft
• An understanding of application performance (Big-O and profiling) and data structures
• You were raised on the cloud (AWS, GCP) and are comfortable living in a containerized world

Bonus:

• Experience with Python frameworks like Django, Flask, and Fast API
• Devops Knowledge - Docker, Jenkins, Terraform
• Experience with an event architecture using queues (Redis, RQ) and message brokers like Rabbit MQ
• ML (DataBricks, Sagemaker, ML Flow) and Data (Snowflake, Redshift) Experience
• NoSQL Experience (Mongo, Redis)

What we offer:

• Corporate headquarters in sunny Austin, TX
• Remote friendly within the United States
• Incredible growth opportunity at one of the fastest growing companies in Austin
• The kitchen is fully stocked with local coffee, drinks, and snacks
• Company sponsored healthcare insurance and dental insurance
• Team building events and office competitions
• Partial cell phone, entertainment, and internet reimbursement 
• Receive an elite technology package to include a brand new MacBook Pro!
• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to put your thumbprint on a high-growth company in the early stages
• An open work environment where everyone, even the new folks, have a voice