Software Development Engineer III

Role Description:

As a Software Development Engineer III at ShipBob, you will be primarily responsible for the development of production level software in coordination with your team. You will work very closely with Product Owners and your Engineering Manager. Being an SDEIII on our integrations team, you’ll design and build systems that connect ShipBob with external e-commerce platforms and partners. These integrations power order flow and fulfillment at scale, directly driving merchant growth and customer satisfaction. You’ll solve challenges around reliability and scalability to ensure integrations are always fast, resilient and available. This role reports to the Manager, Software Development.

What you’ll do:

• All responsibilities of Software Development Engineer I & II.
• Become a go-to expert in one area of the codebase; understands the broad architecture of the entire system.
• Provides technical advice and weighs in on technical decisions that impact other teams or the company at large. Research and propose new technologies.
• Scopes and stages work into well-defined milestones to avoid a monolithic deliverable.
• Regularly delivers software on time and is constantly working to make accurate estimates and deliver on those estimates.
• Known for drama-free launches.
• Owns the technical testing and performance plan for their projects.
• Takes initiative to identify and solve important problems, coordinating with others on cross-cutting technical issues.
• Sets direction at the project/service level and consistently influences decision-making at the Pillar level.
• Identifies and proactively tackles technical debt before it grows into debt that requires significant up-front work to resolve.
• Makes others better through code reviews, thorough documentation, technical guidance, and mentoring or serving as a Tech Lead on a project.
• Sits on the Architectural Review Board, provides feedback on projects outside of their core area.
• Understands the tradeoffs between technical, analytical and product needs and leads to solutions that take all of these needs into account.
• Identifies and proposes strategies around technical problems affecting their team, communicates standards and gets buy-in on solutions.
• Additional duties and responsibilities as necessary.

What you’ll bring to the table:

• 6+ years of experience.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Excellent programming skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Object oriented mindset.
• Ability to work quickly and collaboratively in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
• Ability to own small well scoped features and implementation.
• A hands-on coding approach to engineering mentorship.
• Ability to own medium sized features from design to implementation.
• A defensive coding mindset with knowledge of OWASP.
• Ability to own large features from design to implementation.
• Ability to own service level system design.
• Demonstrated experience in .NET (C#, ASP.NET MVC), SQL, and database design.
• Proficiency with JavaScript, JSON, and REST APIs.
• Solid understanding of Agile software development and team building/leadership.
• Hands-on experience in automating infrastructure and build processes.

Nice to have:

• Passion for software quality (UT, IT, regression) with a belief that testing is a shared responsibility.
• Ability to own and drive cross-service system design.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure (Functions, WebJobs, App Services, Service Bus, Storage Queues, DevOps).
• Familiarity with event-driven (EDA) and service-oriented (SOA) architecture.
• Exposure to Vue.js.