sennder is Europe’s leading digital freight forwarder. In a traditional industry we are moving fast to digitize and automate all road logistics processes. We are a growing team looking for an Engineering Manager to help us on our journey to revolutionize road freight logistics. You would join and lead our Platform infrastructure team in the Berlin office.
We value humility and we're as interested in your character as we are in your talent. Please apply, even if you feel you only meet part of our listed criteria. Diversity drives our innovation and we offer a collaborative, dynamic and international work environment. Just be yourself. We are excited to meet you and for you to join us in shaping the future of the logistics industry in Europe.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As an Engineering Manager you’ll lead the Platform infrastructure team which is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our cloud-based ecosystem. Our ideal candidate has managed technical products or large-scale platforms, has great attention to detail, concisely communicates complex concepts, and is excited about building the platform that powers all of Sennder’s engineering department.
Platform infrastructure engineering is responsible for enabling engineering productivity and provides the product development teams with capabilities and solutions to be highly efficient in building, deploying and running solutions reliably at scale.
This team is building products that provide the tooling and capabilities to enhance the productivity of our engineers by removing their need to be concerned about infrastructure, deployments, observability, CI/CD and more.
IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL…
- Build and grow the platform team composed of software engineers and site reliability engineers to build products that enable the other product teams
- Be the primary point of contact and leader of complex platform projects from discovery and planning to development and implementation
- Work closely with Engineering Leadership to ensure actionable and valuable work is defined for the team
- Coordinate project efforts, lead cross-functional team communication and moderate meetings and rituals with the team
- Identify opportunities to lift key metrics; lowering cloud costs, improving on resilience and security at large
- Drive the delivery of enablers and capabilities for the engineering teams, including planning and execution
- Own the end-to-end delivery of software services (you build it, you run it), including team ownership of monitoring and incident management of production issues
- Apply viable solutions, find the right tradeoffs and seek to reduce complexity to help teams deliver solutions that meet the business needs
- Drive hiring for the team and engineering at large, develop the engineering talent into new roles, solidify the feedback culture within the team, manage performance of team members and ensure we retain top engineering talent
- Keep engineering quality high and continuously identify and resolve technical debt, quality issues and gaps in engineering practices
- Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices that are the right fit for a platform team and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
- Create a healthy culture of collaboration and inclusion, lead by example in line with the company values
- Focus on applying best-in-class industry practices to continue to raise the bar on providing developer delight and speed of delivery for the teams
PREFERABLY YOU HAVE…
- Confirmed engineering leadership experience to provide mentorship, guidance, and motivation for the team and turning it into a successful execution
- Significant and proven experience in executing different cloud architecture patterns like microservices, event-driven systems, micro frontends, etc.
- Experienced with modern infrastructure automation frameworks (like terraform), orchestration, containerization, serverless and security best practices
- A bias towards action, with the ability to make the tradeoffs between delivering outcomes and making things perfect
- Adept at developing in one or more common programming languages such as Python, JavaScript
- A strong interest in the actual customer and business problems to solve
- Being a good listener, but also argue for the cause when needed
- Highly self-driven, professional personality with an aspiration to excel in the role
- Capable of taking a birds-eye view of things to get the big picture while getting into details when needed, but understanding when it is appropriate to do so
- A desire to build a diverse team that wins together and prioritizes success
- Comfortable in a fast-paced environment and able to deal with change
- Fluency in English
ABOUT sennder
sennder is moving trucks with the power of data to unlock endless and sustainable capacity at unparalleled quality. Through our proprietary transportation operating system, built by our in-house tech teams, we not only connect shippers to our fleet of thousands of trucks, but also improve how they move products in sustainable, cost-efficient, and transparent ways - making the logistics industry fit for the future. In a traditional industry, we’re growing and moving fast to digitally automate all road logistics processes.
We are building a curious team that is driven by an ambitious desire to solve the toughest logistics puzzles. What others may consider uncertainty, we see as an opportunity to learn and be proactive. We invite you to go on this journey with us and be part of one of Europe’s inspiring growth stories as we fast-forward road logistics into digitalization.
Get to know us, our culture, green business, funding history, and more on our blog here.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
At sennder, we want to maximize the individual’s potential for all employees and reinforce an inclusive culture and environment of continuous learning that empowers people to succeed as a team. In addition to humility, we value commitment, team spirit, respect, and kindness to build trusted relationships across teams. Learn more on our career site.
- A fast growing, start-up-oriented international team of 900+ people with 65+ nationalities spread across 7 country offices with English as our company language.
- A quarterly feedback and review process for personal development, professional growth, and career opportunities. We also use “Objectives and Key Results” for company goals.
- A structured promotion process, providing everyone with fair and transparent career growth.
- Learning and development opportunities on the job and through conversations with your manager.
- Various opportunities to connect with colleagues, formally and informally, digitally or in person (when allowed), through regular team events, company get-togethers, and partnership events with other companies and local organizers.
- Office first work policy (three days a week), that complies with local COVID-19 restrictions and policies. We also provide flex/hybrid remote working options.
- When in office: unlimited snacks, drinks, and fruits.
- All interviews are currently conducted on a remote basis.
- Please send your application in English and help us reduce negative unconscious bias by leaving out your picture, age, address, and other unnecessary information in your CV. We only want to know the merits on which you’d be great for this role.
If you have any questions or problems please reach out to us at ta@sennder.com. We do not accept applications via email.
