Software Engineering Manager, Order management - Fulfillment

About Flexport:

At Flexport we believe global trade can move the human race forward. Thats why its our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. Were shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today companies of all sizesfrom emerging brands to Fortune 500suse 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. We 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.

Build the first modern logistics platform

The opportunity:

Flexports Omnichannel Fulfillment helps the worlds fastest-growing brands distribute their freight to local businesses and their customers. We help merchants seamlessly manage their shipments inventory and orders by deeply integrating technology into the operational process.

Exceptional software development is integral in allowing us to fulfill our mission of making global trade easier for everyone. At Flexport youll work alongside self-starters interested in solving real-world problems modeling the work that people do within our fulfillment hubs. Youll design solutions to make those processes more efficient and think innovatively to automate much of it. As an Engineer Manager you will be responsible for managing a team of Software Engineers defining a roadmap communicating status with stakeholders and delivering the results with the team addition as the people manager you are expected to hire and onboard new people coach mentor and develop your engineers.

The team:

The Outbounds team at Flexport powers the critical systems that ensure products smoothly flow from warehouses to end customers around the world. We design and scale the technology that orchestrates order creation allocation routing and shipment execution across Flexports global fulfillment network. Our mission is to deliver speed accuracy and flexibility for merchantsfrom fast-growing startups to the worlds leading brands.

This team sits at the intersection of logistics commerce data science and advanced software engineering solving complex challenges in supply chain orchestration. We dont just build reliable high-performance systems we partner with our Data Science colleagues to leverage forecasting optimization and intelligent decisioning models that improve order allocation demand prediction and network efficiency. Every improvement we make translates directly into higher fulfillment speed better inventory utilization lower costs and a superior customer experience.

As global trade becomes increasingly digitized our domain is central to Flexports vision of truly frictionless commerce. Joining this team means shaping the backbone of cross-border fulfillment enabling merchants to reach new markets and customers at scale. Its an opportunity to lead engineers and collaborate with data scientists to create impact at the core of how goods move across the globe.

You will:

• Lead a team of Software Engineers including project planning technical leadership and career development.
• Partner with Operations and Product Management to identify gaps in inventory accuracy analyze root causes and drive strategic initiatives to improve processes and achieve higher accuracy levels.
• Be a full business owner: shape the foundation of the product and business that you work on.
• Own the overall planning execution and success of projects that directly improve Flexport Fulfillment top-line business metrics.
• Drive the teams technical improvements and roadmap.
• Work with Engineering Leaders to hire top talent for the team.

You should have:

• 7 years of software engineering experience building large scale high-performance systems in a complex multi-tiered distributed environment.
• 3 years of people management experience for a group of engineers.
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design and data structures algorithm design problem solving and complexity analysis.
• Experience shipping production code with full instrumentation: deployment logging monitoring and documentation.
• Understanding of best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations.
• Experience recruiting hiring and managing a team.
• Strong sense of ownership urgency and drive.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Preferred qualifications

• Building and operating distributed enterprise-wide systems.
• Processing large amounts of data.
• E-commerce supply chain logistics fulfillment and warehouse management systems or finance systems.
• TypeScript and SQL.
• AWS Lambda and SQS.