🚚 Founded in 2014, Shippeo is a European-based SaaS company specializing in supply chain visibility. Over the past two years, Shippeo has expanded rapidly, fueled by $110 million in funding from Tier 1 investors.

Shippeo prides itself on its exceptional diversity, with a team representing 27 nationalities and speaking 29 languages. With offices across Europe, North America, and recently Asia, we provide global, multimodal real-time transportation visibility to customers in various industries, including retail, manufacturing, automotive, and CPG.

Our vision is to become the leading data platform for the freight industry. By harnessing our growing network, real-time data, and AI, we aim to help supply chains deliver exceptional customer service and achieve operational excellence.

Our product is composed of a mission-critical SaaS web platform (API everywhere), with high traffic inbound/outbound integrations. Our mission is to anticipate problems and proactively alert end customers so they can efficiently manage exceptions. We achieve this by collecting and matching millions of theoretical and real data from different stakeholders.

The technical team is structured into three feature teams:

• Platform: quickly build highly-available integrations to fetch and send orders, events, and positions (we are looking for someone to join this team in a priority)

• Solution: Automatically track road & maritime orders, detect exceptions, and alert our users so they can react

• Analyze to improve: leverage our data to improve our offer insights to our users

In a context of strong growth, we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer Backend to deliver cutting-edge solutions with a mindset oriented toward delivering a production-ready solution.

Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager, your work will focus on improving our technical architecture and developing new functionalities. You will be responsible for all aspects: technical design, development, testing, documentation, deployment, and maintainability.

What you will do

• Provides and supports a strategic vision that integrates a broad range of ideas for applications and software developments.

• Mentor other peer engineers with workflow and complex software solution buildings with your skills and experience.

• Assess the hiring process of the team selection to ensure the balance between selecting skilled and experienced as required by the project.

• Work closely with the product manager/owner, staff engineer, and engineering manager to develop the technical design and solutions.

• Design and maintain server-side application logic using PHP Symfony in an event-driven environment

• Write qualitative, readable, and tested code

• Collaborate with front-end developers on designing the most performant and scalable APIs

• Design and optimize applications for high performance, high availability, and high scalability

• Ensuring optimal performance of the requests to the databases

• Document your processes, your APIs using OpenAPI and the database schemas

• Explore new architectural patterns within our stack: DDD, CQRS, event sourcing, micro-services

• Be an integral part of the lifecycle of software

Generally composed of 4 backend developers, 2 frontend developers, 1 product manager, 1 product designer, and 1 QA Analyst, each feature team has full ownership of selecting and delivering the features that will have the greatest impact on our users. Close collaboration, agile method, and tests: we try every sprint to improve our processes.

We are looking for a developer with a good knowledge of the technologies we use, but what matters most is that:

• You are passionate, experienced and enjoy working in a team in an agile context

• You are not afraid to confront new problems and overcome them

• You deliver qualitative, powerful and tested code 

Your Profile :

• Experience of minimum 5 years in Software Engineering in a highly paced environment

• Must have experience in developing server-side application logic using PHP Symfony

• Must have experience with at least one relational database and a noSQL database

• Must have experience with a message-broker system

• Must have experience with a CI implementation

• Familiarity with RabbitMQ, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, ElasticSearch

• You develop pragmatic solutions without overengineering and choose simple, straightforward solutions over more complex ones

• You align your work with the company's business objectives and seek to deliver business value

• You have a strong emphasis on developing solutions that are production-ready with a mindset oriented towards you build it, you run it

• Proficiency in both French & English

Application Requirements:

Since Shippeo operates internationally, please submit your CV in English. We’re eager to hear from you if you’re ready to take on a challenge and grow your career in a supportive, innovative environment. 

We are looking for talents who share our values:

•  🚀 Ambition

• 💙  Care

• 🎯  Deliver

• 🤝  Collaboration

Find out more about our values in Our Culture Book

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Diversity Statement

We are committed to fostering diversity and inclusion within our workplace as we value the unique perspectives and experiences that individuals from all backgrounds bring to our team. We are dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all candidates, regardless of their background or abilities, and our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our policies, practices, and workplace culture.

We understand that candidates may have unique needs or questions related to disability inclusion. To facilitate this, you can reach our dedicated Disability Advisor at [email protected] with any inquiries or requests for accommodations during the application process.