Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Shippo's Carrier Configurations Team as an Engineering Manager and lead a high-performing team building and scaling tools for managing carrier configurations. You will hire, mentor, and develop engineers, fostering a strong team culture. Collaborate with various stakeholders to define requirements and guide product vision. This role requires extensive software development experience and strong leadership skills. Shippo offers a remote-first work environment with various perks and benefits.

Requirements

• Must have at least 2+ years of hands-on engineering management experience including managing deliverables, participating with product and design to define MVP, managing performance and growth of reporters and managing stakeholders
• 10+ years of experience in software development
• Coding experience in backend programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Java, Ruby)
• Experience working with Backend frameworks (e.g. Django, FastAPI)
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and familiarity with various design and architectural patterns
• Experience integrating with APIs that use REST, gRPC, SOAP and other technologies
• Experience managing external vendors and integrations with 3rd party APIs
• Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Deep understanding of customer needs and passion for customer success
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and hire a high-caliber team of software engineers to solve company goals while remaining hands-on
• Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement
• Establish a sense of urgency and direction, set expectations with the team and individuals
• Work closely with product management, analysts, architects, engineering leads, and business stakeholders to define requirements, guide product and architectural vision, lead key technical and design discussions, and prioritize delivery efforts
• Advise business leaders by providing data-based strategic direction to identify and address business issues and opportunities
• Exceptional problem solving skills as ability to understand business challenges, structure complex problems, develop solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Coding experience in database languages (SQL)
• Experience working with server-side MVC frameworks (e.g. Django, .NET, Spring, Rails, Phoenix)
• Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB)
• Experience with queue technologies (e.g. Redis, Celery, NSQ, Kafka)

Benefits

Remote-first program, “Shippos Everywhere”