Senior Engineering Manager, Optimal Dynamics

• If you are energized by hands-on work on challenging projects, changing the technical landscape of the transportation and logistics industry, while seeing your impact on the internal development team and external platform, all while growing as a leader and engineer, this could be the role for you
• Educated: BS in Computer Science, a related degree, or equivalent industry experience
• Experienced: You have led Engineering teams and possess in-depth, full-stack knowledge of the applications you've built from the ground up, with a minimum of 5 years of high-level technical leadership experience
• Customer and Product Focused: You possess a deep, customer-first mindset, understanding of B2B SaaS user personas, and strategic product development addressing user needs
• Engineer: You possess expertise in designing and developing microservices and large-scale distributed systems. Your technical skills include proficiency in Python, Docker, Kafka, and leveraging AWS services and architecture
• Excellence Obsessed: As a mentor and technical advisor, you inspire an atmosphere of continuous improvement. You’re passionate about automated testing, code quality, and engineering best practices
• People Leader: You have hired and mentored developers and led technical conversations, fostering an environment of empowered decision-making, knowledge sharing, and process improvements
• Agile: You’ve managed a team in Agile best practices
• Communicator: You are adept at communicating and collaborating effectively with others, promoting your ideas as well as being humble when you may be wrong
• Responsible: You thrive in environments with minimal guidance and a plethora of context. You enjoy taking full ownership of projects from conception to production
• Flexible: You know how to balance ownership and autonomy with collaboration in a remote environment. You know how to prioritize focusing your time and effort where most needed with flexibility, dedication, and curiosity

Desirable

• We are a team of bright, kind, and solution-oriented people focused on creating value for our customers. We can solve problems individually, but understand that the best solutions are found when the team brainstorms ideas together
• We are excited about balancing the need to deploy new solutions quickly and designing solutions that are secured, reliable, maintainable, and scalable for the long run
• We’re seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Product Engineering team
• You will be responsible for leading a team of both Frontend and Backend Software Engineers
• Your ownership will extend to significant portions of our system architecture, including designing and building scalable systems, while also influencing key product decisions
• Lead and participate in technical design discussions, actively remove blockers, and continuously drive technical direction and best practices
• Iterate on our agile-inspired process, helping us build better software as a cohesive team
• Collaborate with our analytics, product, and design leadership as we define the scope of projects and plan deliverables
• Mentor engineers on your team, lead projects your team is tasked with, and influence our technical direction
• Facilitate 1-1s with engineers on your team, unblocking and providing regular feedback on goal progression, praise, areas for improvement, and career progression
• Identify areas for your team to learn and expand via project work, external learning, or additional mentorship