[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager, Product Engineering @Optimal Dynamics

Role Description

We’re seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Product Engineering team. You will be responsible for leading a team of both Frontend and Backend Software Engineers. Your ownership will extend to significant portions of our system architecture, including designing and building scalable systems, while also influencing key product decisions.

If you are energized by hands-on work on challenging projects, changing the technical landscape of the transportation and logistics industry, while seeing your impact on the internal development team and external platform, all while growing as a leader and engineer, this could be the role for you.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and participate in technical design discussions, actively remove blockers, and continuously drive technical direction and best practices
• Iterate on our agile-inspired process, helping us build better software as a cohesive team
• Collaborate with our analytics, product, and design leadership as we define the scope of projects and plan deliverables
• Mentor engineers on your team, lead projects your team is tasked with, and influence our technical direction
• Facilitate 1-1s with engineers on your team, unblocking and providing regular feedback on goal progression, praise, areas for improvement, and career progression
• Identify areas for your team to learn and expand via project work, external learning, or additional mentorship

Qualifications

• Educated: BS in Computer Science, a related degree, or equivalent industry experience
• Experienced: You have led Engineering teams and possess in-depth, full-stack knowledge of the applications you've built from the ground up, with a minimum of 5 years of high-level technical leadership experience.
• Customer and Product Focused: You possess a deep, customer-first mindset, understanding of B2B SaaS user personas, and strategic product development addressing user needs.
• Engineer: You possess expertise in designing and developing microservices and large-scale distributed systems. Your technical skills include proficiency in Python, Docker, Kafka, and leveraging AWS services and architecture.
• Excellence Obsessed: As a mentor and technical advisor, you inspire an atmosphere of continuous improvement. You’re passionate about automated testing, code quality, and engineering best practices
• People Leader: You have hired and mentored developers and led technical conversations, fostering an environment of empowered decision-making, knowledge sharing, and process improvements
• Agile: You’ve managed a team in Agile best practices
• Communicator: You are adept at communicating and collaborating effectively with others, promoting your ideas as well as being humble when you may be wrong.
• Responsible: You thrive in environments with minimal guidance and a plethora of context. You enjoy taking full ownership of projects from conception to production
• Flexible: You know how to balance ownership and autonomy with collaboration in a remote environment. You know how to prioritize focusing your time and effort where most needed with flexibility, dedication, and curiosity

Nice To Have (Bonus Points)

• Agentic Development: Experience championing and building necessary tooling/guardrails to ensure productive use of agentic development practices.
• Domain Expertise: Transportation, logistics, or broader supply chain industry.
• Platform Development: Effectively integrating and leveraging advanced Machine Learning (ML) and Operations Research (OR) models, collaborating closely with Data Science teams to utilize their expertise.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including Series C level equity
• Health / Dental / Vision 100% covered for employee and 50% for dependents
• Life Insurance, with optional supplemental insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• 401(k) with match
• Unlimited PTO (vacation, personal days, sick days, jury duty, military leave, bereavement)
• 11 Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave for all employees
• Short-term and Long-term Disability Insurances, and AD&D Insurance
• Fitness membership reimbursement
• Commuter benefits