Impact

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Shopper Backend team, your day involves collaborating with a cross-disciplinary squad to design, build, and deploy high-performance, multi-region services using tools like Go, Copilot Postgres, Redis, and Kafka. Operating with zero travel requirements, you will take deep ownership of our production environment, driving architectural decisions and performing non-functional requirements, and analyzing metrics to ship real-world products that directly empower shoppers nationwide. You will stand out by leading complex technical challenges autonomously while actively mentoring peers, sharing solutions across the org, and shaping the engineering culture of our high performing team.

• Software Engineering Experience: 4+ years of software development experience, operating with a high degree of autonomy and collaboration to independently design, deploy, and own complex production services from end to end in a cross-functional Agile environment.

• Distributed Systems Projects: Proven experience building and scaling multi-region distributed architectures, microservices, or SOA systems using languages such as Go, design patterns, and Kafka event driven messaging.

• Data Modeling & Optimization: A track record of designing distributed data models and actively identifying and improving poor-performing code or database queries with Postgres, Snowflake, and caching technologies like Redis.

• API Design: Hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining RESTful APIs that successfully apply functional and object-oriented programming paradigms to serve high-volume customer traffic.

• Mentorship & Collaboration: Demonstrated experience mentoring junior or peer engineers, leading design sessions gathering input from multiple voices, providing, code reviews, and clearly communicating complex architectural concepts to cross-disciplinary teams.

Required

• 4 years+ Backend REST services.

• 4 years+ relational or no-sql databases. Distributed database design experience preferred.

• Caching such as REDIS.

• 2 years+ messaging queuing such as Kafka.

• Must have CS principles + design patterns such as Gang of Four

• 2+ years driving non-functional requirements for performance/load testing and scaling infrastructure.

• Observability: logging + metrics

• On-call experience 24/7 for high ownership on production issues. This team rotation every 3-4 weeks.

Skills & Education

This list includes key skills used in this job but is not inclusive of all skills needed for the role. Please see any required education below.

Back-End Development, Distributed Systems, Go Programming Language, PostgreSQLBachelor's Degree or equivalent experience | Required

 

 

Work Arrangement

To foster connection while offering continued flexibility, hybrid team members have the following in-office expectations:

Hybrid roles in Birmingham, AL typically work in-office at least 2 days per week, with core in-office days on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Hybrid roles in Minneapolis, MN typically work in-office at least 1 day per week on either Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.

Hybrid roles in San Francisco, CA typically work in-office at least 1 day per week between Monday and Thursday.

Certain roles may require in-office presence on a full-time basis. Please work with your recruiter to learn more about the classification of this role.

About Shipt

Shipt is a retail tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch. Shipt connects customers to the things they want from the stores they love, retail businesses to more satisfied customers, and workers to new earning opportunities.

At Shipt, we aim to put our team first to boost a sense of belonging, spark opportunities for growth, provide unique benefits and commit to giving back to our communities in ways that make life better, both personally and professionally. We understand that our service, our culture, and our connection to our communities are only made better by every single person who shows up to work here every day.