At Shipt, we are transforming the grocery shopping experience and giving time back to consumers. Shipt shoppers handpick fresh groceries and household essentials, then deliver them to your door in as little as one hour.

Job Description
We are currently on the lookout for a Principal Software Engineer for our Shopper Payments team. This team builds systems that predict the time it takes to shop, checkout, drive, park, and drop off orders.  They also build Incentive and Surge Pay systems to balance demand spikes and keep our on-time delivery rate high.

Are you passionate about software development, sharing knowledge, growing your skills, and working with great people?  The Shipt engineering team is growing, and we are looking for extraordinary engineers who enjoy building as much as we do. So if you are self-directed, enjoy autonomy in your work, and are an excellent participant in a team, please apply.

What You’ll Gain

You will get experience working with a cross-disciplinary team shipping real-world products to our customers around the nation. 

Your Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test (unit/integration/etc), deploy and maintain application code




• Develop multi-region, high performance services to manage shopper supply, order claiming and more




• Work with a variety of technologies: Golang, Python, Ruby, Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka and more




• Participate in the design process to build efficient, scalable and maintainable architecture




• Collect and analyze metrics to drive implementation decisions




• Design, improve and document processes




• Review and collaborate with other engineers on their code




• Support your team through encouragement and by example




• Engineers have a high degree of ownership for all aspects of their services




• Mentor and share knowledge with the team

Requirements

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field




• 10+ Years of Software Development Experience




• Able to apply functional and object-oriented paradigms




• Able to apply the SOLID principles




• Demonstrated ability designing and interacting with complex persisted data models




• Able to both identify and improve poor performing code or database queries




• Able to explain REST principles and design APIs that follow them




• Experience with SOA, micro-services, and/or distributed architectures




• Experience working with Data Science teams and delivering Machine Learning driven systems




• You are interested in continually learning and mastering new skills




• Able to communicate complex ideas and concepts simply and concisely




• You are willing to monitor and own the production services team 




• You are empathic and enjoy learning from and mentoring other engineers

Nice to Haves

• One or more of the following languages: Golang, Python, or Ruby/Rails




• Experience building pricing, time estimation, or routing solutions




• Open source software and dependency management




• Object/Document data storage technologies




• Caching and in-memory database technologies




• Asynchronous/Multi-threaded Programming Patterns




• Message queuing technologies/strategies

Employees (and eligible family members) are covered by medical, dental, and vision.  Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan.  Employees will also be eligible to receive discretionary vacation for exempt team members, 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year and 56 hours of paid sick leave (accrued at a rate of 1 hour for every 25 hours worked).  Other compensation includes eligibility for an annual bonus and the potential for restricted stock units.

Colorado Pay Minimum: $124,300
NYC, WA, and CA Pay Range: $149,200 - 298,400

Please note that the base salary range is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies and work location. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.