Senior Engineering Manager, 4PL Booking Management

Flexport is building the first modern logistics platform to make global trade easier for everyone. We are solving complex problems on a global scale, and disrupting a multi-trillion dollar industry that has remained stubbornly unchanged.

At Flexport, we’re passionate about making global trade easy for everyone. Our 4PL Booking Management team is dedicated to providing customers with a single solution to manage carrier bookings and exceptions, allocate freight more efficiently, and measure performance across suppliers and carriers. Combined with other Flexport 4PL products such as Visibility and Order Management, we enable customers to manage their logistics, from order through delivery, on one platform to save time, reduce costs, and ultimately improve their end-consumer experiences.  

We are searching for a talented Senior Manager, Engineering to join us in building and leading the 4PL Booking management engineering team. 

As the Senior Manager of Engineering, you will: 

• Build the 4PL Booking Management product that optimizes supply chain cost for customers 
• Build and lead a productive, healthy software engineer team(s)
• Own and drive operational excellence for the 4PL booking management product 
• Craft the architectural strategy and own the technical landscape for the 4PL booking domain
• Work closely with business partners and product managers to distill complex business problems into elegant technical solutions.
• Build and launch products rapidly and incrementally. We ship to production dozens of times per day.
• Collaborate with business partners and product managers to build a long term product roadmap and grow our customer base. 
• Geek out about 4PL, shipping and logistics. (We do this often.)

• 8+ years of experience developing software (including management)
• 2+ years of management experience
• Experience hiring and building healthy and productive software engineering teams
• Demonstrated ability to grow and develop software engineering talent
• Experience setting technical vision and roadmap for a team
• Track record of ideating, planning, executing and reflecting on multi-month initiatives
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operations excellence
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Experience managing full-stack application teams.
• Experience working in a cross-functional team with product, design, and data.
• Experience developing distributed systems.
• Strong ability to convey technical ideas in common terms to business partners, product managers, and engineers alike.
• A bias for action. When you see a problem, you solve it. 
• An aptitude for learning. The global logistics industry is vast and complex, we will never stop learning. 

• Have experience in global logistics and supply chain 

Our continuous releases are integrated with Buildkite and Github. On the frontend, we create our views with React + Next.js, manage the flow of data with GraphQL/Relay, and test our application with Jest. On the backend, we’re in the process of decoupling our monolithic Rails app into a Micro Services architecture, primarily on JVM languages (Java and Kotlin). Our data is persisted in the right store for the job, typically Postgresql or MongoDB. Our stack is hosted on AWS using Kubernetes. 

At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make it easy and accessible for everyone. We’re shaping the future of a $8.6T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year. 

The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. At a valuation of $8 billion, we’re experiencing record growth and are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us.

Don’t be! Our mission is to make global trade easy for everyone. That’s why it’s important to bring people from diverse backgrounds and experiences together with our industry veterans to help move the global logistics industry forward.

We know this industry is complex. That’s why we invest in education starting day one with Flexport Academy, a one week intensive onboarding program designed specifically to set every new Flexport employee up for success. 

At Flexport, our ability to fulfill our mission of making global trade easy for everyone relies on having a diverse, dedicated and engaged workforce. That is why Flexport is committed to creating and nurturing an environment where anyone can be their authentic self. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, health status, marital and family status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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