Associate Software Engineer

 

About us

At Auctane, we are united by a passion to help businesses deliver — whatever their size, wherever they are, and however they operate. We make it possible for businesses to meet the ever-changing requirements of their industry and customer expectations. Auctane products enable hundreds of thousands of businesses to annually mail and ship billions of items — over $200 billion worth — to recipients around the globe.

The Auctane family of mailing and shipping software products includes ShipStation, Stamps.com, ShipStation API, Metapack, GlobalPost, and Packlink. Our partners include Amazon, UPS, USPS, eBay, BigCommerce, Shopify, WooCommerce, and Walmart.

Our values

Win as One. Delight Customers. Deliver Great Outcomes. 

About the role

As an Associate Software Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in both the development and refinement of our products. You'll collaborate closely with a team of passionate engineers, product managers, and designers to build scalable, high-performance financial services solutions. Your expertise in .NET for the backend and ReactJS for the frontend will drive the success of our projects from conception to deployment.

This role is located in Austin, TX- candidates must be local to Austin to be considered. 

About the team

The Auctane Software Development team is empowered with enhancing, modifying, and maintaining features and functionality associated with the Auctane suite of software products.

This role is located in Austin, TX- candidates must be local to Austin to be considered. 

What will you be doing?

• Craft dynamic and responsive user interfaces with ReactJS, enhancing user experience.
• Develop and optimize robust backend services using .NET, ensuring scalability and performance.
• Apply software engineering best practices while modifying/enhancing our software platform.
• Use AI coding/testing tools to accelerate tasks; practice safe prompting, validate results with peers, and contribute learnings and tips to team docs.
• Attend and contribute to design review meetings
• Offering input into the designs of product enhancements and third party integrations and documenting designs
• Actively documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Working closely with other developers and product managers throughout the SDLC
• Being responsible for the design and implementation of new product features and enhancements with guidance and input from other team members
• Writing tests to support any source code changes made by this individual, performing code reviews, and related activities that contribute to development and maintenance of the Auctane software.
• Participate in code reviews, contributing to maintaining high code quality and encouraging best practices.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends in software development, particularly in payments, .NET and ReactJS ecosystems.
• Be an active contributor during design and implementation phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Provide feedback to the team on product improvement ideas
• Organize/catalog common problems and other pain points encountered by customers as well as ideas regarding improvements to common processes/workflows of Auctane users. These artifacts will ultimately serve as a starting point for conversations with product management in terms of needs and prioritization. 
• Other duties as assigned.

What are we looking for?

• 2+ years of experience in software development, with a strong background in .NET for backend development and ReactJS for frontend development.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information System
• Proven ability to prioritize work.
• Curious and driven with a problem-solving approach.
• Experience in an Agile software development environment.
• Understanding of advanced object oriented design and SOLID design principles.
• Understanding of UML diagrams (class diagrams, sequence diagrams, etc.) to communicate architecture and design concepts.
• Experience with creating and maintaining automated unit tests and integration tests in a test-driven development environment.
• Experience with source control systems and branching strategies.
• Strong understanding of SQL, relational database systems, and ORM frameworks.
• Familiarity with shipping and/or shipping software is a plus.
• Displays a high degree of professionalism and contributes to the credibility of the company.