ENGINEERING MANAGER, SHIPPING & LOGISTICS

Accountabilities • Lead, coach, and develop an autonomous, self-managing, high-performing, and inclusive software engineering team through clear expectations, thoughtful structure, and consistent feedback. • Own the shipping and logistics domain end-to-end, including carrier integrations, rate shopping, label generation, and supporting systems. • Set and guide the team's technical direction, backlog priorities, roadmap input, and delivery processes while incorporating perspectives from engineers, stakeholders, and broader business strategy. • Make thoughtful tradeoffs between new features, technical debt, customer support, innovation, and long-term system sustainability. • Partner closely with Product and Design as part of the Engineering, Product, and Design leadership group to shape roadmaps, estimate work, prioritize initiatives, and communicate decisions. • Champion AI adoption across the engineering team, making AI agents a default starting point for project planning, issue triage, and software development. • Establish appropriate expectations and support for AI adoption while ensuring AI-generated work is reviewed with the same rigor and engineering standards as any other code. • Hold the team accountable to engineering fundamentals, including test-driven development, SOLID principles, scalable system design, and sustainable delivery practices. • Inspect and evaluate technical output to maintain high standards for reliability, maintainability, and quality. • Foster a culture of trust, accountability, visibility, healthy communication, and continuous improvement. • Build strong relationships with stakeholders and proactively communicate progress, risks, decisions, and changes in direction. • Participate in hiring and team-structure decisions while helping create an environment where engineers can grow and perform at their best. • Champion organizational mission and values through leadership, decision-making, and day-to-day interactions. Requirements • 3+ years of experience managing high-performing, product-focused software engineering teams with a demonstrated record of delivering meaningful business value. • Recent hands-on experience as a software engineer, with sufficient technical depth to participate in architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and guide scalable system design. • Experience in SaaS, startup, or e-commerce environments is highly desirable. • Exposure to shipping, fulfillment, reverse logistics, or complex integrations is a plus but not required. • Demonstrated experience using AI agents as a regular part of engineering workflows, with the ability to explain how AI adoption has improved team or individual output. • Strong understanding of Agile software development principles, including Scrum, with a track record of delivering quality software through iterative and incremental development. • Strong knowledge of software engineering fundamentals, including test-driven development, SOLID principles, sustainable delivery, and scalable architecture. • Proven ability to balance competing priorities, manage stakeholder expectations, and make thoughtful technical and product tradeoffs under real-world constraints. • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build trust across engineering, product, design, and business teams. • Demonstrated ability to create a feedback-rich culture centered on accountability, performance, empathy, and continuous improvement. • Strong leadership judgment, curiosity, decisiveness, and an action-oriented approach to identifying and addressing challenges early. • Familiarity with technologies such as PHP/Laravel, Vue.js, MySQL, DynamoDB, Kubernetes, AWS, Jira, Datadog, Snowflake, or comparable technologies is helpful, although the hiring process is technology-stack agnostic. • Must be based in the United States. Benefits • Base salary: $150,000–$190,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, geographic location, business needs, market conditions, and compensation goals. • Annual performance bonus: Targeted at 10% of base salary. • Medical, dental, and vision insurance. • Flexible paid time off (PTO). • Company holidays. • Sick and safe leave. • Parental leave. • 401(k) retirement plan. • Equity opportunities. • Monthly wellness benefit to support employee well-being. • Home workstation benefit to help support an effective remote workspace. • Phone and internet benefit. • Remote work flexibility within the United States. • Autonomous and collaborative work environment focused on high empathy, high standards, professional growth, and meaningful impact. How Jobgether works: We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. 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