Senior Software Engineer

Company Description

Shipsy is a Global SaaS company focused on the Logistics tech space. Logistics is a multi trillion dollar industry, but still largely run in a manual manner. At Shipsy, our technology platform helps Retailers, Logistics and Manufacturing companies get end to end visibility of their shipments, reduce logistics costs and enhance customer experience.

Our customers span across Middle East, India and South East Asia and include enterprises like Reliance (their entire Retail operations, exports and imports runs on Shipsy), Domino's, Gulf Marketing Group, UPS Gulf, DTDC Express, Zepto, Burger King, Landmark Group - Homecentre, More Retail and many more. We process over 2 million shipments a day and about 10% of India's container trade is tracked on our platform .

We are backed by Global investors such as Sequoia Capital, Infoedge, A91 partners and have raised ~$35mn till date.

We are over a 350+ member team now, with offices across Gurgaon (HO), Mumbai, Bangalore, and Dubai.

Our team is composed of excellent individuals from top institutes across the country like IITs, IIMs, NITs, IIITs with experience in Big Data, Software Architecture, ML, AI, Robotics, Blockchain. In combination, we have previously worked at Samsung Korea, MIT Media Labs, CMU Robotics, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, Samsung Research, GE Research, Qualcomm Research, etc. and have also been entrepreneurs. We have numerous research publications and patents. The core team has computer scientists, electrical engineers from IIT Delhi and Madras, and this core tech focus would contribute tremendously to your learning.

We also have some word class employee benefits such as the scholarship program and more that will further enhance your learning. We serve clients from across various industries and geographies, and pride in having a young, energetic, diverse team. An exciting, results-driven, growth-oriented role with an opportunity to guide our fastest-growing product to the next level.

For more information, please visit our website at https://shipsy.io/.

Job Description

Category: A- L1

Location: Gurugram

As a SAAS company powering businesses across multiple geographies, Shipsy processes millions of transactions per day and supports its clients' operations with its AI powered platform, APIs and more. Shipsy’s engineers work on the core tech for all of that. In this role, you will work closely with founders to build features, tools, both those that exist today and those that we will build in the future. Your contributions will enable hundreds of businesses that rely on Shipsy to manage their operations smoothly and help Shipsy expand in new markets

We are looking for builders of the 1st order. You should get a rush from creating things from scratch and take pleasure in watching users try to tear it apart through sheer volume and strange, unthinkable use cases. And when it breaks, you are to Shipsy’s rescue! — make everything smooth, secure and stronger than ever!

As with any startup, responsibilities will vary frequently. You’ll wear multiple hats, and work across many different technologies, might talk to clients directly and have an active say in the direction of our product. We want someone who is passionate about this type of environment!

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• As a hands-on engineering professional, you'll stay on top of the details and will be more focused on building a better, more efficient program and creating the best user experience

• Work with a wide range of systems, stakeholders, processes and technologies to own and solve problems from design to delivery

• Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter

• Participate in a culture of code reviews, writing tech specs, collaborating closely with other people and lending your help in your areas of expertise.

• Building highly scalable, reliable, efficient distributed systems to serve traffic-heavy SaaS-based products using micro-services architecture.

• Building scalable component libraries, design systems and tools using typescript, Solving complex design problems and User Interface compatibility issues across browsers.

• Contribute directly to the technical and product roadmap

Qualifications

What we are looking for:

• 4+ years of hands-on experience building web applications with Nodejs, React and a solid understanding of software construction

• Comfortable with Responsive Web Design and Development and weave out beautiful code in React, an interest in building UIs with modern tools like ES6, React, Redux, and Webpack

• You are intensely curious and passionate about the prospect of diving deep in multiple technologies, platforms, and problem spaces, even if they are currently unfamiliar

• A strong product and design sensibilities and have an obsessive attention to detail.

• Write testable, maintainable code that's easy to understand.

• Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration.

• Experience with programming languages and tools, including but not limited to NodeJs / Javascript Programming / ReactJs/ PostgreSQL / MongoDB / Git / Linux / Amazon Web Services, REST, Web Technologies. 

• Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems

• A degree in Computer Science or a similar area are bonuses.

Our hiring principles:

• We don't care about the stack you've worked upon, we look for a good understanding of fundamentals.

• We look for depth in the work experience. Our tech stack consists of almost all the latest technologies and we expect people to learn fast and acquire sufficient depth.

• We look for people passionate about technology and are good team players.

Additional Information

Shipsy Core values:

• Customer Obsession - We believe our success coincides with generating tangible value for our customers. Our discussions start with the customer and work backwards from there.

• Collaboration - We put a team above individuals. We openly ask for help. We solve problems as a team, leverage team member strengths, and collaborate, so a win for an individual is a win for the team.

• Think Big - We aim high and drive growth by thinking big and constantly challenging ourselves to achieve our true potential.

• First Principles Thinking - We try to dig deep into the most fundamental truth by asking WHY until we get there and challenge the status quo.

• Be The Problem Solver - We strive to find the answers by framing the correct problem statement, getting to the root of the cause, and eliminating it.

• Integrity - We encourage everyone to speak their mind without reservations respectfully and earn the trust of team members, lead by example and be consistent in whatever we do.

• Frugality - We push ourselves to accomplish more with less. We believe constraints breed invention and self-sufficiency.