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About the role
Shipper TMS is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to own a team of backend, frontend, and QA engineers building our shipper-facing TMS product. You'll partner with Product and the team's tech leads to set technical direction, run delivery, and grow your engineers - while staying hands-on enough to guide real architecture and code-quality decisions in a Java/Spring Boot backend.
What they're looking for
- You have Advanced-level English skills, especially Speaking and Writing
- You have at least 3 years of experience managing a team of 5-15 people (full-stack, backend, mobile), across various technologies
- You have demonstrated experience in Lean/Agile management practices
- You have delivered several large projects (in the context of your team) successfully in the past 3 years
- You have 5+ years of experience developing software as an IC engineer
- You have a strong technical background as a Senior Engineer for at least 3 years on the web backend written in Java/Spring (or a comparable high-level backend stack)
More about this role
Shipper TMS is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to own a team of backend, frontend, and QA engineers building our shipper-facing TMS product. You'll partner with Product and the team's tech leads to set technical direction, run delivery, and grow your engineers - while staying hands-on enough to guide real architecture and code-quality decisions in a Java/Spring Boot backend.
Your first 3-6-12 months will be defined together with your manager: ramp on the codebase and team, then take ownership of roadmap, delivery, and people development.
Execution & delivery
- Work with Product to turn requirements into well-scoped, sequenced work; set and hold delivery milestones.
- Track team health at each stage of the SDLC; unblock bottlenecks and adjust process as needed.
- Keep your team aligned with other Engineering squads.
- Communicate roadmap, trade-offs, and risk clearly to Product, Design, and other stakeholders — assessed in the panel interview, and day-to-day through cross-team syncs and written updates.
Technical leadership
- Set a technical vision tied to company goals and plan ahead for scale — assessed via a roadmap exercise in the interview, and day-to-day through your...
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