Job Description
The Rating API team plays a crucial role in powering Shippo’s core API. The `/shipments` endpoint enables real-time shipping rate calculation across multiple carriers. This team ensures merchants and platforms get fast, accurate, and reliable rate comparisons that drive conversion and customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities include designing, implementing, testing, and deploying high-performance backend services that handle millions of requests daily with strong SLAs. You will be enhancing and supporting our /shipments API, ensuring performance, accuracy, and low latency for all users.
This also includes collaborating with cross-functional partners (Product, Infrastructure, and Carrier Integrations) to deliver key API capabilities, improving the CI/CD pipeline for efficient, reliable, and automated deployments, and improving system health through metrics, logging, and observability tools.
About Shippo
Shippo is the shipping layer of the internet and consider themselves to be one of the core building blocks of e-commerce.