engineering manager for Shipper TMS

Shipper TMS is a shipper-facing transportation management system product.

• Partner with Product and technical leads to set technical direction, manage delivery, and develop engineers;
• Work with Product to scope and sequence requirements and set delivery milestones;
• Track team health throughout the SDLC, remove bottlenecks, and adjust processes;
• Keep the team aligned with other Engineering squads;
• Communicate roadmaps, trade-offs, and risks to stakeholders;
• Set a technical vision aligned with company goals and plan for scale;
• Own the team’s technical roadmap, identify and prioritize strategic technical debt, and assess costs and benefits;
• Guide architecture and code-quality decisions, review architecture documents, participate in production incident RCAs, and run periodic technical-debt reviews for the Shipper TMS backend;
• Establish engineering quality standards, including PR review checklists, minimum test coverage, rollback plans, monitoring dashboards, and alerts;
• Run regular 1:1s, coaching, and performance reviews; guide career growth and delegate ownership;
• Own team headcount planning, hiring, and onboarding;
• Track and improve engineering velocity and quality.

• Advanced-level English, especially speaking and writing;
• At least 3 years of experience managing a team of 5–15 people across full-stack, backend, or mobile roles and various technologies;
• Demonstrated experience with Lean/Agile management practices;
• Successfully delivered several large projects within the team in the past 3 years;
• At least 5 years of software development experience as an IC engineer;
• At least 3 years of experience as a Senior Engineer on a web backend written in Java/Spring or a comparable high-level backend stack;
• Able to manage team members with different skill sets, communicate expectations, give and receive feedback, and facilitate 1:1s, group discussions, planning sessions, and retrospectives;
• Able to identify high-value projects, focus the team, prioritize, create alignment, and provide clarity;
• Autonomous and willing to take ownership of problems across the organization, including beyond defined responsibilities;
• Able to develop processes, remove execution hurdles, and make decisions amid ambiguity and change;
• Values empathetic and direct communication and is comfortable with organizational change and evolving role boundaries;
• Experienced in interviewing engineers at junior and senior levels, collaborating with recruiting teams, and onboarding new team members;
• Strong data-driven prioritization skills and willingness to challenge decisions at any level of authority;
• Able to make sound trade-offs between code quality and development speed;
• Nice to have: experience managing engineering teams at startups during rapid growth or organizational change, rolling out engineering and management practices and processes, managing partially or fully remote teams, designing and operating critical systems, reviewing high-risk PRs across teams, hands-on experience with Metabase and Datadog.

• Remote-first, 100% distributed team;
• Monthly gym membership stipend of $50;
• Flexible PTO and 6 weeks of paid paternity leave;
• Technology equipment provided, with help outfitting a home office if needed.