Shippo, a leading shipping platform for e-commerce businesses that aims to provide "Amazon-like shipping to e-commerce merchants", has announced the creation of 120 jobs at its new European R&D centre in Dublin as part of its international expansion plans.
Shippo, which has been valued at $1bn after raising more than $150m, connects businesses and marketplaces using its API and dashboard, and the European R&D centre announcement comes after it signed a multi-year deal with Shopify to provide an end-to-end solution for its merchants.
The San Francisco-based firm supports more than 120,000 businesses, including e-commerce platforms, marketplaces and warehouses and works with over 85 global carriers. The roles in engineering, product and design will be filled over the next two years.
"We serve a growing, international community of merchants who are looking for a global end-to-end shipping solution,” said Simon Kreuz, president and co-founder at Shippo.
“With our European team working with our US engineering teams in building a world-class shipping service, as well as spearheading new initiatives for the European market, including platform API optimisations, carrier integrations, and building a brand new mobile app, this new location will enable us to deliver more tailored programs to our customers and partners across Europe.”
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The company has also hired tech verteran Ashutosh Saxena as site lead and head of engineering for Europe, with responsibility for building out and managing the engineering team and overseeing day-to-day operations in Dublin.
"Shippo’s vision is to provide Amazon-like shipping to all e-commerce merchants, and it is a wonderful career opportunity to join the company at this stage,” Ashutosh said.
“As a home to some of the best engineering talent in the world, Ireland felt like a natural next step for Shippo as we continue our international expansion, and I’m excited to help lead this effort locally."
Commenting on the announcement, Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar said: "I’m really happy to welcome Shippo to Ireland and I’m delighted they’ve chosen Dublin for their first European office, creating 120 new jobs over the next couple of years.
"The pandemic emphasised the importance of e-commerce businesses for our economy and Shippo’s work in facilitating these companies is vital. This new R&D centre will greatly benefit from our rich pool of talent. I wish the team the very best in this exciting new project and ongoing success with their European operations.”
Patrick Collison, co-founder of Stripe and an investor in Shippo, said the company's "work orchestrating the world’s intricate shipping infrastructure will help millions of businesses around the world to expand their operations and reach new customers.
"That Shippo has chosen my home country–and location of Stripe’s second headquarters–as the basecamp for its European presence makes the company’s continued expansion all the more exciting."
Shippo is a welcome addition to the SaaS technology space in Ireland. The availability of multilingual technology talent here will help the company with this expansion of its operations into Europe. I wish them every success here.” said Martin Shanahan, CEO at IDA Ireland.
Photo: Shippo co- founders Laura Behrens Wu and Simon Kreuz
