Engineering Manager
Due to Connected Freight’s ambitious growth plans we are searching for an Engineering Manager. We’re looking for someone with an equally high IQ as well as EQ to lead a team of engineers and build a first in class platform. You will be responsible for expanding on a product that us used by Fortune 50 clients as well as SMB's in an effort to make an impact on traffic and emissions.
The incumbent should not consider themselves an armchair captain though. We are looking for someone that is as excited about creating beautiful, high performing and scalable applications as they are about scaling there own methodology through sharing of best practices, management, and mentorship. Connected Freight strives to adopt modern and cost-efficient best practices in our software development process. Candidates that are equally savvy in using a modern agile software development process, TDD, BDD and DDD methodologies; like React, TypeScript, and AWS serverless architecture are highly encouraged to apply.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, prototyping, development and implementation of Connected Freights logistics solutions.
- Set the engineering processes in the team: agile process, the design review process, code reviews
- Break down big features to small and manageable user stories and tasks
- Be responsible for release timelines and for the balance between quality and speed
- Give guidance and code-level feedback to software engineers and data scientists
- Provides mentorship to software engineers, helps to shape and drive their career growth.
Qualifications
- Proven leadership skills, ability to drive change and deliver projects in the startup environment of ambiguity and constantly changing priorities
- Demonstrated success in managing a software engineering team of more than 5 people for more than 2 years. Experience managing Data Scientists is a plus.
- An avid learner with a hunger to acquire and share new knowledge and skills. We are looking forward to discussing what you have recently learned.
- Strong problem-solving skill and ability to think out of the box.
- Solid knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS/Google Cloud Solution Architect certification is a plus), various programming languages (Go, TypeScript, JavaScript and Python are preferred), NoSQL and relational databases, and distributed service-oriented architectures.
- Solid understanding of front-end technologies: React, JavaScript, TypeScript, webpack, SASS, HTML, etc
- Experience building and running data products in production is a must. This includes data pipelines, use of big-data technologies, data warehouses, and running machine learning algorithms in production.
- Strong computer science skills, including optimization and machine learning algorithms.
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering.
Desired Skills and Experience
Machine Learning, Application Performance Management, Leadership, TDD, Pipelines, Avid, Architect, HTML, User Stories, TypeScript, Software Engineering, Agile, JavaScript, Freight, Python, Agile Software Development, Databases, Software Development