Company Description

🚚 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.

Job Description

About Us:
Our product is composed of a mission-critical SaaS web platform (API everywhere), with high traffic inbound/outbound integrations. Our platform handles over 30 million incoming API calls and generates 100+ million external API calls, making scalability our biggest challenge. We enable customers to proactively manage exceptions by analyzing real-time data from various stakeholders.

Team Structure:
Our technical team is divided into three feature teams:

• Platform: Focus on building high-availability integrations to fetch and send orders, events, and positions.

• Solution: Automatically track road and maritime orders, detect exceptions, and alert users so they can respond effectively.

• Analyze to Improve: Leverage data to offer better insights and improvements for users.

The Role:
We’re looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our team, where you’ll tackle the complexities of scalability and build high-availability integrations. Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager, you'll focus on improving our technical architecture, developing new features, and ensuring production-readiness at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of scalable solutions

• Develop server-side application logic using PHP Symfony in an event-driven environment

• Mentor peers and guide technical decisions, with a focus on scalability and performance

• Collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to design performant, scalable APIs

• Address scalability challenges, handling tens of millions of API calls

• Implement modern architectural patterns: DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Microservices

• Document APIs, processes, and database schemas for high-performance systems

• Ensure optimal performance and availability across all services

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering in a high-paced, large-scale environment

• Expert in PHP Symfony and relational + NoSQL databases

• Experience with message brokers (e.g., RabbitMQ), CI tools, and monitoring stacks like Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana

• Strong understanding of CQRS, Event Sourcing, and DDD principles

• Proven experience managing high-scalability challenges

• Pragmatic problem solver with a "build it, run it, monitor it" mindset

• Fluent in French and English

Additional Information

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.