Software Development Engineer III

As a member of the ShipBob Team, you will... 

• Grow with an Ownership Mindset: We champion continuous learning and proactive innovation. Team members are encouraged to identify challenges and take ownership of initiatives that drive merchant, company and personal growth. By tackling complex problems and exploring creative solutions, you won’t just follow a playbook, you’ll be actively building the future of ShipBob.
• Collaborate with Peers and Leaders Alike: ShipBob values collaboration and support, where team members and leaders alike are committed to helping each other succeed. We all set high standards and understand the importance of transparency at all levels. We’ve created an environment where trust, open communication, and mutual respect motivate our teams to reach new heights.
• Experience a High-Performance Culture and Clear Purpose: Our commitment to delivering results creates a goal-driven, high-performance culture where everyone is empowered to contribute to our mission with a clear understanding of their direct impact and accountability. We measure success in tangible ways, allowing each team member to see the positive outcomes of their work and celebrate shared victories.

Location: Remote-India

Role Description:

The Transportation team builds and scales systems that move thousands of packages worldwide with speed, reliability, and cost efficiency, powering middle-mile and final-mile logistics. We solve complex cross-border delivery challenges to create smarter, faster, and more sustainable transportation experiences for merchants and customers.

As a Software Development Engineer III at ShipBob, you will be responsible for developing production-ready software in close collaboration with your team, Product Owners, and your Engineering Manager.

On the Transportation team, you will serve as a key senior engineer — accelerating the delivery of scalable, resilient, and merchant-impacting systems. Beyond writing code, you will help shape the long-term architecture of Transportation and Integrations, elevate engineering quality, and reduce operational overhead across multiple services.

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 software development experience
• Strong problem-solving, programming, communication, and object-oriented design skills
• Proven ownership of features and systems — from small, well-scoped modules to large features and service-level system design
• Hands-on coding mindset with mentoring experience
• Focus on defensive coding (OWASP) and engineering best practices
• Expertise in .NET (C#, ASP.NET MVC), SQL, and database design
• Experience with Microsoft Azure services (Functions, WebJobs, App Services, Service Bus, Storage Queues, DevOps)
• Proficiency with JavaScript, JSON, and REST APIs
• Solid understanding of Agile development and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Experience automating infrastructure and build processes (CI/CD, DevOps)
• Nice to have:
  • Passion for software quality (UT, IT, regression) with a belief that testing is a shared responsibility.
  • Familiarity with AI-powered coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code)
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
  • Ability to own and drive cross-service system design
  • Familiarity with event-driven (EDA) and service-oriented (SOA) architecture
  • Exposure to Vue.js

Perks & Benefits: 

• Medical, Term & Accidental Insurance 
• All Purpose Leave (casual & sick time): 12 days 
• Earned Leave: 15 days 
• Public Holiday: 12 days 
• Generous Maternity & Paternity Leave 
• Quarterly Wellness Day 
• Work From Home Allowance 
• See Our High-Performing Culture >>> Check us out on Instagram (@lifeatshipbob) 

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We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence; therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions. 

About You: 

The work we do at ShipBob is both challenging and rigorous, which means our environment isn’t the right fit for everyone, and that’s okay. We welcome energetic high performers who thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, results-driven environment. We value individuals who embrace accountability and humility, push boundaries, and are motivated by challenging work. Every team member, no matter their role or tenure, is expected to roll up their sleeves and tackle the complex problems we face in today’s global supply chain. 

Learn more about our core values and how we perform at a high level in our day-to-day work on our Culture page (https://www.shipbob.com/careers/culture/).

About Us:  

ShipBob is a leading global supply chain and fulfillment technology platform designed for SMB and Mid-Market ecommerce merchants to provide them access to best-in-class capabilities and to deliver a delightful shopper experience. Merchants can outsource their entire fulfillment operations, utilize ShipBob’s proprietary warehouse management system for in-house fulfillment, or take advantage of a hybrid solution across ShipBob’s dozens of fulfillment center network in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. ShipBob is backed by leading investors like Menlo Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners, and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and is one of the fastest-growing tech companies headquartered in Chicago. 

ShipBob provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. 
 
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. 

There is no deadline to apply for this position, as ShipBob accepts applications on an ongoing basis.