Backend Engineer

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Job Description

Easyship has innovated the global shipping landscape with our shipping and logistics technology.

We believe any business should be able to effortlessly ship worldwide, and we work tirelessly to tear down this last barrier of worldwide eCommerce. We have a fully distributed team that strategically operates from North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, and we’re always looking for talent that will propel our rocket ship even higher. Join our diverse team of engineers, sales, and marketing professionals to revolutionize an old-school industry. Help us build the most complete online shipping portal!

Position Title: Back-End Developer Mid & Senior Developers.

Reports to: CTO based in Asia

Key Relationships: Tech team, Business and Operations teams, direct access to the leadership

Job Purpose: to build and maintain the back-end of our web applications, which includes scaling up our RESTful API, optimizing the response time of the API and the proprietary algorithm, and creating a new product that will integrate with the existing platform.

Job Responsibilities

• Participate in the entire product life cycle
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications
• Drive the development of a new product internally
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Work closely with our CTO and product team to establish priorities and manage our technical road-map
• Build and manage a team of 10-15 people (Senior Engineers)

Requirements

Skills & Personal Qualities:

• 4+ years of software development experience, incl. 3+ years of strong experience with Ruby on Rails and SQL databases
• Strong experience building highly scalable systems
• Ability to hold the team to high standards for security and data privacy practices
• Experience with PostgreSQL or other SQL databases, SQL queries, Redis, Sidekiq, Elastic Search, APIs
• Familiar with Git and Git flow; familiar with modern management tools
• Write high standard, beautiful, maintainable and reusable code
• A background working at startups, especially in logistics or ecommerce is a plus, but not mandatory

What We Offer

• Flexible work hours
• Gym allowance
• Equity in the company
• Competitive compensation
• Annual all-company Summit in Hong Kong!
• A chance to work with a first-class, global team.
• Full amount of health insurance and labor insurance

Easyship will not be responding to any agency or outsourcing outreach for any of our open positions.