Engineering Manager
Edge Services
Posted on 7/22/2022
INACTIVE
Flexport

1,001-5,000 employees

Global freight forwarder and logistics platform
Company Overview
Flexport's mission is to make global trade easy for everyone. The company operates a digitally enabled freight forwarding platform that helps other businesses to transport and store goods across the globe.
B2B

Company Stage

Series E

Total Funding

$3B

Founded

2013

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

-16%

1 year growth

-5%

2 year growth

1%
Locations
Bellevue, WA, USA
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of experience writing software and strong engineering background
  • 3+ years of experience managing a team of 5+ software engineers
  • Proven track record of building large-scale complex distributed systems. A passion for diving into the nuts and bolts of how things work, and for building high-quality systems
  • Experience building inter-operable APIs for search, discovery, access, and attribution
  • A desire to build an inclusive and diverse culture
  • Experience scaling products and teams in high-growth environments
  • Passion for learning and always improving yourself and others
Responsibilities
  • Drive the future architecture of our graphQL gateway, collaborating with technical leaders across Flexport
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a group of talented engineers, and help them to progress in their careers
  • Empower the engineering team to achieve a high level of technical productivity, reliability, and simplicity
  • Create the engineering roadmap, and own the technical landscape for the systems at Flexport
  • Work closely with our business partners, other engineering teams, and the product manager to distill complex business problems into robust technical solutions
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience migrating large monolithic applications to service-oriented architecture
  • Experience building multi-tenant platform API