Senior Software Development Engineer

About the role

Senior Software Engineer (AI-Enhanced Platform Development)

Shipium is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team and help shape the future of our core platform. In this role, you'll be a key player in designing and developing scalable, AI-enhanced microservices and supply chain optimization solutions for some of the world's largest retail companies. If you're passionate about building robust platforms and leveraging cutting-edge AI tools to accelerate development, we want to hear from you.

What you'll do

• Platform Development: Design and build our core platform services and APIs, ensuring they are scalable and reliable.
• AI-Enhanced Development Leadership: Leverage modern AI tools for code generation, automated testing, and intelligent monitoring to increase team productivity and system reliability.
• Technical Collaboration & Planning: Partner with product managers and other engineering teams to architect solutions that address complex customer challenges, using AI-powered analysis to inform your decisions.
• Mentorship & Knowledge Transfer: Serve as a mentor to junior and mid-level engineers, helping them adopt platform tools and AI best practices while fostering a collaborative engineering culture.
• System Reliability: Own the performance of production systems, debugging critical issues and implementing monitoring solutions to ensure we meet our service level agreements (SLAs).
• Innovation: Research and evaluate emerging AI development tools and platform solutions to continuously enhance our development process and system capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience: 5 plus years of progressive experience in platform engineering, distributed systems, or software development.
• Technical Skills:

• • Proficiency in modern programming languages (Java, Python, TypeScript, Go); solid understanding of distributed systems architecture, microservices patterns, and cloud-native technologies (AWS/GCP/Azure). Exposure to AI development tools such as Claude Code, code generation models, automated testing frameworks, and intelligent monitoring solutions. Knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and platform observability tools. Understanding of API design, database optimization, message queuing systems, and professional software engineering practices, including code review, automated testing, security best practices, and operational excellence. 

• AI Tools Exposure: Familiarity with AI development tools like Claude Code, code generation models, and AI-powered testing frameworks is a significant plus.
• If you are a builder with a passion for leveraging technology to solve meaningful problems, we encourage you to apply and help us build the future of supply chain optimization.

At Shipium, Employees enjoy full medical, dental & vision coverage (with 50% coverage for dependents), optional life insurance and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) retirement plan, fully remote work-from-home options in 25* states, 8 paid weeks of parental leave, 12 paid holidays annually, self-managed vacation time, sick & safety leave, and volunteer time off. 

Shipium is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Women, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. If you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please email Human Resources (hr@shipium.com) and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

This applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and mentorships. Shipium makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business.

*Although based out of Seattle, WA, Shipium is 100% remote in the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington & Wisconsin. 

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