Shipmates is a platform that helps online businesses ship with local couriers here in the Philippines. 🇵🇭

Shipmates is a platform that helps online businesses connect to local couriers. Our customers get to sign up, connect their Shopify or WooCommerce stores, select a courier for their orders, and then book and track their orders. And our goal is to make shipping as frictionless as possible. We’ve also just finished closing our seed round and are looking for someone to help us grow the product.

We’re looking for someone who has experience building a successful product or service or has at least helped one reach product-market fit, someone who can help us grow the team down the line, and someone who is game to build out the logistics infrastructure of the Philippines.

• Why it’s great to work with us
  • You’ll be joining us in the early days with plenty of room for growth and influence
  • You’ll be working with a great team of builders
  • You’ll be solving hard problems that a lot of businesses face and make lives simpler for them
• What you need to know
  • Has expertise in building products that people want
  • Has experience building a secure and performant Ruby on Rails API or Next.js app
  • Has led a team of designers and engineers
  • Have the ability to communicate clearly with the team and our users
• What will you be doing?
  • Helping the team build the right shipping solutions for our customers
  • Experimenting with different approaches for the product
  • Managing the engineering team and helping raise the bar
  • Improving our software development process to help us ship faster and better
• Technology
  • We have a Ruby on Rails + Postgres + Hasura (GraphQL) backend alongside a Next.js (React) front-end deployed on AWS. You will be helping out the team work on the codebase and helping develop, test, and ship out features.
  • We’re a small team of designers and engineers on the product team and you will be leading discussions starting from the spec requirements all the way down to doing code reviews to establish best practices.

We're using a Ruby on Rails API, Postgres, and Hasura for the backend and we're using Next.js (React) for the frontend.