Engineering Manager - Pricing (f/m/d)

What if... your work empowered change in an industry that essentially impacts the prosperity of the entire world? Forto is in business to exactly do that - disrupt logistics! Simplifying global trade has been our mission from day one. Our exponentially growing team of technology and logistics experts forge ahead each day with the goal to deliver a highly transparent, frictionless and sustainable digital supply chain while chasing towards our moonshot goal of achieving climate neutral operations by 2025.

Your role

The Pricing team creates and manages pricing strategies, handles quotes, and provides essential tools for our specialists. They predict demand and adjust prices using AI, ensuring all rates are accurate throughout shipment. They also handle all customer promises and terms.

As the Engineering Manager (f/m/d) responsible for the Pricing team, you will ultimately be responsible for the team's technical vision and direction. You’ll partner with your product and design partners to set the strategic direction the team follows, being responsible for driving the delivery of the team’s roadmap. You’ll also be responsible for building, growing, and managing a group of talented engineers reporting to you. Additionally, you’ll collaborate with other engineering leads in the organization, helping the organization to implement broader and more impactful projects.

We seek a versatile and motivated individual with a strong engineering background and demonstrated leadership skills for this role, able to balance people management, roadmap delivery, and software architecture aspects that are inherent to the job. We expect you to deeply understand the technical details of what the team owns and builds. You will need to be highly adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity, as you will be balancing both technical and managerial aspects of software engineering. Operating in an ever-changing environment, we expect you to excel at making informed decisions with limited information. If you are passionate about technology, and have the drive to lead and inspire a team, we'd love to hear from you.

You will

• You’ll be responsible for people management, roadmap delivery, and software architecture of your team;
• People management: build a highly motivated and engaged cross-functional team. You’ll manage 6+ engineers and, on top of that, assess and review their performance, coaching and mentoring them when needed. You’ll help to create an environment that privileges autonomy, collaboration, and ownership
• Roadmap delivery: be the ultimate responsible for delivering the team’s roadmap, in collaboration with your product and design partners. You’ll proactively communicate priorities, development status, and any team challenges to your customers, stakeholders, and management 
• Software architecture: oversee the entire technical landscape of your team, being responsible for prioritizing initiatives that evolve it, together with Staff engineers, focusing on technical excellence. You’ll guide the team on how to design the best technical solutions for the product challenges the team is up to solve. Lastly, you’ll guide the quality and testing strategy of your team

What you bring

• 8+ years of deeply technical engineering experience, with 3+ years in a leadership/managerial role 
• Experience with large-scale architectural patterns, event-driven microservices, well-designed APIs, and efficient algorithms
• Strong exposure to Agile methodologies
• Strong skills with some of the technologies we use: NodeJS, Javascript/Typescript, MongoDB, message queuing systems, Kubernetes/Docker, AWS/GCP
• Strong relationship builder and cross-team collaborator
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
• Experience in developing software for B2B businesses is a plus
• Start-up experience is a plus