Backend Engineer

You'll love work here, because You'll be part of an awesome team of currently five experienced developers, most junior team member has ca. 5 years experience, most senior 20yrs+. Day-to-day you'll also be working together with the world-class product team to build amazing features expanding our product and maintaining existing features. The team has a mix of experiencee, e.g. from Google, NetApp and Matches Fashion, some are office-based and some are remote.

We'll think you enjoy working with us, because we are a nice team, collaborative, highly motivated and love building an amazing product to help move goods around the world using great technology.

You'll also enjoy frequently (weekly+) shipping features and you get a lot of satisfaction on working on a product which is continuously improving and taking ownership about whatever you'll be working on.

The key product is a web application plus private and public APIs as well as an ERP integration using AWS Lambdas. Our tech stack is Nodejs, AWS, React, CircleCI and our main database is Postgres. We follow weekly sprints and use JIRA for day-to-day product management.

The Opportunity We build cool software for logistics companies (One of the biggest industry in the world) and we're a Series A startup with $9.5 million in funding from Y Combinator, Mosaic, and AME Cloud (Fund of Yahoo founder). We've grown from 12 to 34 employees and are now looking for a new backend developer to help accelerate our growth.

Your background

Experience (3+ years) in building and maintaining high-quality, robust and well architected software systems
Some experience with Javascript or Typescript for either frontend or backend
Experience with professional software development processes
Degree in Computer science or degree in another science

We have a progression framework and care about your success and growth

All joiners will receive share options. This means you will directly benefit from your work and your impact in a fast growing business.

The Company Shipamax is building Stripe for back office automation in logistics organisations.

When goods are physically moved around the world, there can be up to 20 companies involved in the transaction. This is a complex and messy process, where different systems & teams have to collaborate to get the job done - creating a mountain of manual work.

Shipamax extracts data from logistics documents, and turns it into a standardised, machine-readable format. This saves companies hours of manual data entry, improves accuracy and frees up teams to focus on skilled, value-add activities.

Today, we provide plug & play automation to some of the world's largest logistics companies who are constrained by manual admin. We're already processing 30 million emails and attachments annually, but we're just getting started - our vision is to enable seamless orchestration of global trade.

We have regular in-person and remote team events.

We believe that developing team members is important to help everyone grow and have a career progression framework with bi-yearly reviews.

Values We're a highly ambitious team of ~34 mainly based in London. We want to be renowned for our achievement and we don't shy away from the hard work that is required to get there. We want to enjoy that journey, so look for friendly, inclusive folks that will help each other out, cheer on each other's 'wins', help pick you up when things aren't as rosy and have some fun on the way.

Think and act like one team

The road to success can often be long and tough, but we want to enjoy the journey. We're here to achieve something incredibly ambitious. Having everyone moving together, in the same direction, will enable us to do our best work and achieve our goals faster. Consistent, high impact delivery

To be a market leading business that stands the test of time, we must consistently prove our worth to our customers. Everyone delivering consistently and focusing on the right tasks keeps us on track. Working at Shipamax is a team sport. Start small to go big

Starting small means proving we can execute effectively on a small scale before doubling down on initiatives that have shown evidence of success. This keeps us focused on 'what good looks like'. A partner, not just a vendor

We are not a one-off purchase - we are a partner who will be there for the next 100 years. Customers buying Shipamax are on a journey. We utilise our experience to support their organisational change and go the extra mile to make these projects successful.

Location: Office-based, 2.5 days in the office: 2 days a week in the office, 3 days ever other week (company day) Employment type: Full-time Start date: Immediately