A Little About Us

Shippit is Australia’s best connected shipping software. Logistics infrastructure is a sophisticated beast, and we’re not only improving the experience for everyone involved, we’re impacting the planet in a positive manner: deliveries made through our platform are already 100% Carbon Neutral. Proudly Australian founded, we’re truly global in our approach and have the benefit of being a free moving startup with the security of impacting a growing industry that needs some love and attention. Our recent Series B2 cap raise of $65m has added to our ability to grow and solve some chunky problems.

The Role & the Team

The Technology team at Shippit make an impact and create the future of Shippit, From deploying to new geographies to building next generation products, and taking the microservices journey, there’s no better time to join a vibrating team already strong of several world class software engineers.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you are responsible for participating in the development

of product features through all the phases of the software development cycle, working

alongside one of our Product Manager and more senior engineers.

The Senior Software Engineer participates in all phases of the software development cycle, including analysis, design, development, debugging, testing, and deployments.

Day to Day

• Utilising experience across multiple technologies to take substantial features from concept to shipping as the sole programmer. or leading a small team of developers, with planning awareness.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other developers to define, design, and ship new features, ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code in Ruby on Rails, and maintain coding standards and guidelines to ensure high-quality products.
• Coach, mentor and at times, lead junior developers and developers to increase their understanding, impact and capability, including pair programming and code review.

Continuously learn and apply new technologies and industry trends to improve the development process and keep the team on the cutting edge of full-stack development.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Excellent problem solving skills and ability to breakdown business requirements into technical tasks.
• Experience working on web applications, REST APIs, queues, and other infrastructures around it.
• Familiarity with OOP and/or imperative design patterns.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails. Another bonus is if you are familiar with type systems or have experience working with a typed language such as C# or Typescript.
• Familiarity with modern Javascript UI frameworks such as React or Vue.
• Experience working with relational databases, able to design an effective storage schema while keeping the access patterns of the data in mind.
• Comfortable writing tests for the code you write.
• Excellent communications skills and eager to learn.

Proactive and self-motivated.

Life at Shippit

• • Genuine Flexibility and Fully Remote – you don’t need to choose between work and a personal life.

• Increased Annual Leave & Birthday Leave – receive increased annual leave and celebrate your birthday

• Enrich your Life – travel and explore the world through the flexibility to temporarily work anywhere, yes anywhere in the world for up to 2 weeks of the year.
• Fuel your Growth Journey – Unlocking your potential with development opportunities that have commercial opportunities.

Feel Valuable

Shippit actively supports a diverse workforce at all levels of the company and we all embody the core values that make our business unique. We foster a culture of inclusion at Shippit and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. Our mantra is to make ship happen, every single day.

We’re a phenomenal place to work, and we can back that up. Shippit’s been ranked as #6 Best Place to Work by Australian Financial Review in 2023. It doesn’t stop there, we have a whole bunch of accolades we earnt over the years which we are super proud of.

We are a 2023 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to responding to every applicant.