Engineer at Shipt, Inc. in Birmingham, Alabama

Job Description:

At Shipt, we are transforming the grocery shopping experience and giving time back to consumers. Shipt shoppers handpick fresh groceries and household essentials, then deliver them to your door in as little as one hour.

We are currently on the lookout for a Software Engineer for our Shopper Operations initiatives. This role is on a team that will help develop smarter ways to connect with shoppers, optimize intelligence and maximize operational success. 

Are you passionate about software development, sharing knowledge, growing your skills, and working with great people? The Shipt engineering team is growing, and we are looking for extraordinary engineers who enjoy building as much as we do. So if you are self-directed, enjoy autonomy in your work, and are an excellent participant in a team, please apply.

What You’ll Gain

You will get experience working with a cross-disciplinary team shipping real-world products to our customers around the nation. You will also receive hands-on mentorship from your friendly teammates on topics ranging from design to career advice

Your Responsibilities

You’ll join a team of talented individuals who will provide you with hands-on mentorship on topics ranging from design to communications strategy.

• Develop, test (unit/integration/etc), deploy and maintain application code




• Develop multi-region, high performance services to manage shopper supply, order claiming and more




• Work with a variety of technologies: Go, Ruby, Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka and more




• Participate in the design process to build efficient, scalable and maintainable architecture




• Review and collaborate with other engineers on their code

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field




• 2+ years of relevant work experience




• 2+ years programming in Golang, Ruby, C, C++, Java, Python or similar language




• Experience reviewing and collaborating with other engineers on their code




• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to effectively collaborate with diverse teams

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Golang, Postgres




• Experience developing microservices




• Experience with non-relational databases




• Asynchronous/Multi-threaded Programming Patterns




• Message queuing technologies/strategies




• Able to explain REST principles and design APIs that follow them




• Experience with SOA, micro-services, and/or distributed architectures

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.