🧡📦💙Founded in 2012, EasyPost is a YC unicorn whose mission is to make shipping simple for businesses—from garage startups to the Fortune 500. Shipping, now more than ever, is the backbone of the global economy, but integrating the technology-enabled operations of a modern business with the low-tech and complex shipping industry has always been a challenge. EasyPost solves this problem with the first developer-friendly REST API for shipping, and we continue to push boundaries and discover new ways to simplify shipping for all. Our team is rapidly growing, and this is the perfect time to get on board. Join us and help build the shipping infrastructure of the future. We’re builders, problem-solvers, and “there has to be a better way” people. We like elegant architecture, fast decisions, and shipping (pun intended) improvements that power millions of deliveries every day. We stay scrappy, we move fast, and we don’t wait for permission to innovate in an industry that desperately needs it. If you want to work on systems that actually move the world—literally—you’re in the right place. 🚚✨
Position Summary:
EasyPost is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help modernize and support the technology behind the EasyPost Public Shipping API. You’ll join a small, high-trust team that owns one of the most important components in the EasyPost Shipping Platform. Your Go expertise will help refactor legacy services, design cloud-native solutions, and deliver the low-latency, high-throughput services that our customers depend on every day. If you thrive on solving complex engineering challenges and want to shape a platform that handles massive scale and real-world impact, this is the role for you.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
The essential functions include, but are not limited to, the following:
o Design and build the future: design, code, test, and optimize high-performance Go services that power the public shipping API used by millions of users everyday.
o Drive the migration to the future: help refactor legacy systems for the cloud, then design new cloud-native services that take full advantage of Azure, Kubernetes,
Kafka, and more.
o Collaborate and influence: work hand-in-hand with product managers and other engineers to translate big ideas into rock-solid architecture.
o Raise the bar: participate in peer reviews, mentor teammates, and establish and support modern Best Practices (gRPC, micro-services patterns, performance tuning) into the codebase.
o Solve real problems: troubleshoot production issues in high-throughput, low-latency environments without downtime.
o Document for the future: create clear technical docs so the next engineer can pick up right where you left off.
o Continuously improve: bring fresh ideas from the industry to improve speed, scalability, reliability, and developer experience.
o Test like you mean it: build and run automated unit, integration, and performance tests to ensure we ship with confidence.
o Work smart with tools: use Git and other version control systems to manage complex, distributed workflows.
Minimum Education & Experience Qualifications:
o Bachelor’s Degree
o 8+ years of software development experience, master’s degree and 6+ years of software development experience, or equivalent related work experience.
o Proven experience in software development, including designing, coding, testing, and debugging applications.
o Proficiency in Ruby on Rails, Python; experience Go or Java is similar is a plus.
o Familiarity with Agile or Scrum methodologies and tools like JIRA and Confluence.
o Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and design principles.
o Experience with backend frameworks and APIs; familiarity with front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or similar is a plus.
o Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases and data modeling concepts.
o Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
o Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences.
o Experience working in large, complex codebases e.g. a Monolith.
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.
Physical Requirements:
Minimal to light physical effort is required in performing duties. Prolonged stationary periods at a desk and working on a computer. Extensive use of computers, keyboards, and communication-based technology to exchange information. Occasional walking and lifting may be required and must be able to lift 15 pounds at any given time. Travel Required: 10%
Work Environment:
Core Values: Build and sell products we believe in, accountability and authenticity in all we do, customers guide the way, and persistence and humility. 100% Remote. Team-based culture. Excellent work-life balance. Requires on-call hours.