Engineering Manager, Forto
SRE/IAM, Germany
Online platform for freight forwarding
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Online platform for freight forwarding
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Simplifying global commerce has been our mission from day one.
Role
Who you are
- At least 8 years of Engineering experience and 4 years of Engineering Management experience. Existing expertise in Platform Engineering is required
- Ability to attract, hire, and coach world-class engineers. You can up-level existing teams by hiring top-notch senior talent, growing leaders, and helping struggling members. You can gain the trust of the team and guide their careers
- You navigate and lead a team through challenging situations
- You enjoy building an agile and blameless culture plus an organization from scratch
- You like to iterate on problems instead of making and syncing big plans upfront
- You know how to drive a cross-functional change
- You have a solid understanding of cloud and platform technologies
- Hands-on knowledge of the following is a plus: GCP (preferred) or AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform
What the job involves
- You will manage two of our platform engineering teams, with a total headcount of 8 engineers: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- The SRE team at Forto is responsible for reliability and developer experience. We enable our development teams to write complex business logic by providing best-in-class tooling and infrastructure
- The IAM team is responsible for developing and maintaining the authentication and authorization services for our self-developed platform and employee-facing systems
- We have a production environment based on GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Helm. On top of that, we have self-service tools written in Typescript and a bit of Go
- “You build it, you run it” is a goal for our developers. We love to improve our engineers' lives so they can build, run, observe, and generally own the software they write on all levels
- Lead two highly skilled teams of platform engineers and software developers
- Help develop a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables, adjusting well-defined processes to changing business requirements and ensuring roadmap delivery
- Establish high technical standards through processes and culture
- Mentor and coach engineers to help them create a fulfilling career and build individual solid contributors and leaders
- Work across functions within engineering and product to drive developer experience and site reliability topics
- Improve team autonomy by enabling & empowering Forto engineers to own security, reliability, and observability as non-functional requirements of their products
- Ensure roadmap delivery, align the team on the implementation path of product strategy, and balance the needs of building, maintaining, refactoring, scaling, and extending features to support the technology's life properly
- Design, plan and ensure delivery of software and infrastructure to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Forto's services
Our take
Logistics is developing into a paperless digitised industry. The market is expected to grow during the next few years, with digitisation continuing to be one of the key drivers supporting growth by reducing manual processes. Digital freight forwarding carries major benefits, including instant quotes, transparent pricing, comparison of rates and carriers, tracking, easy documentation and more.
Forto is a provider of digitised freight forwarding and supply chain solutions, offering a single platform for managing the journey of a shipping container from origin to destination - a task long-handled with pen, paper and post-it notes. With supply chains strained by shifting consumption patterns and a steep economic recovery, Forto's freight management system can be key for clients to maximise visibility and flexibility of shipments, empowering customers with clearer insights.
Forto's larger clients include online furniture retailer Home 24 and German supermarket chain Edeka. The company's 2022 funding was invested in international expansion, whilst a partnership with climate action tech startup Cozero cemented Forto's ambitions to reduce its carbon footprint across its operations.
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Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2022
$250m
SERIES D
Jun 2021
$240m
SERIES C
Total funding: $615.4m
Company benefits
- Climate Action - Emission Offsetting, Donating Trees, Paperless Office
- Sport - Urban Sports Club Discount, Yoga Sessions, Back Trainings
- Mental Health Platform
- L&D Budget - Trainings & Library, Language Courses
- 2 Performance Cycles
- Visa/Relocation Support
- Onboarding Plan, Remote Onboarding
- Buddy Program
- Inspiring Offices, Flexible desks, Office Shuttles
- Free vegan snacks and drinks
- Regular Events
- Corporate Benefits
- FutureBens
- Pension Scheme
- Employee & Sales Referral Program
- JobRad
- Flexible working hours
- Remote Work, Home Office Equipment
Company HQ
Kollwitzkiez, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Ferry Heilemann
(Board Observer & Co-Founder)Co-founded a number of companies, including DailyDeal in 2009, Forto in 2016 and Pirate Impact in 2021.
Erik Muttersbach
(Board Member & Co-Founder)Experienced CTO with more than 10 years of experience building software. Founder of number of tech companies.
Michael Wax
(CEO & Co-Founder)Co-founder and CRO of KONUX from 2014-2015, and a Founders Pledge member since 2020.
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