Senior Software Engineer (Go & Cassandra)

Job Description

Founded in 2012 as the first RESTful API for shipping, EasyPost is helping e-commerce companies with accurate tracking and logistics. We are delivering hope and spreading smiles to homes all across the country. EasyPost pushes boundaries and changes the status quo through our RESTful API, allowing companies greater control over their shipping. We continue to disrupt the shipping industry, and this is the best time to get on board. We are out to do things differently, to consistently change, grow, and progress. Join us in building simple shipping solutions to enable sellers to define & rate postage, buy it, and track it in transit.

We’re searching for a passionate, talented software engineer who is interested in reducing logistics friction to the lives of millions of people, amazing personal and professional growth, and having a real impact on our products and users. The empowerment EasyPost provides will remind you why you love to code, want to build APIs, and work on unique challenges within a collaborative team of developers to build meaningful products.

What You Will Do:

• Responsible for designing new, and modifying existing, software to be scalable, correct and efficient
• Contribute to overall system design in a highly collaborative environment
• Deploy early, deploy often
• Create and debate solutions to a variety problems with a diverse engineering team
• Think and build security first

About You:

• Experience with, or interest in, Python, Go, Ruby and Rust
• Experience with, or interest in, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis and Kafka
• Have worked on large, complex applications with shared ownership
• Makes incremental improvements in quality, performance, correctness and scale of various services
• Committed to using the right tool for the job in the context of a greater engineering community
• Identifies what needs to be done, collect data, present options and communicate tradeoffs
• Understands horizontal scalability and decomposing a monolithic application into smaller, loosely coupled services.
• Strong opinions on how to structure interactions with external and internal services
• Experience with REST, HTTP/HTTPS

What We Offer:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Competitive compensation package and equity
• Monthly work from home stipend of $100 net
• Flexible work schedule and paid time off
• Collaborative culture with a supportive team
• A great place to work with unlimited growth opportunities
• The opportunity to make massive contributions at a hyper-growth company
• Make an impact on a product helping ship millions of packages per day

Data Privacy Notice for Job Applicants:

For information on personal data processing, please see our Privacy Policy: https://www.easypost.com/privacy