Position: Engineering Manager (Trucking/Logistics)
Company: Zelh
Category: Data Engineer
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

We are looking for an Engineering Manager for the Trucking team in Chicago where you will work closely with our business partners to drive our goals and strategy for Trucking procurement and planning. This team is responsible for maintaining all of our procured rates and then feeding them into the planning process. The team is also responsible for modeling trucking procured inventory. This team also works closely with our data science team to help build the machine-learning models that power our planning algorithms.  This company is building the first modern logistics platform to make global trade easier for everyone. We are solving complex problems on a global scale, and disrupting a multi-trillion-dollar industry that has remained stubbornly unchanged.

**You will:**
- Expertly design and own technical solutions for broad or complex requirements with insightful, strategic approaches.
- Manage and coach a team of talented engineers and help develop their careers.
- Work closely with product and business stakeholders to drive strategy for Trucking planning and procurement.
- Work with engineering leaders across Flexport to help build scalable programs that standardize information flow and increase operational capacity.
- Set a standard of technical excellence on the team and drive impact.
- Build and launch products rapidly and incrementally. We ship to production dozens of times a day.
- Geek out about shipping and logistics. (We do this often.)

**You should have:**
- 8+ years of technical experience building scalable systems.
- Experience hiring and building diverse and inclusive teams.
- Track record of ideating, planning, executing, and reflecting on multi-month initiatives.
- Experience working in a cross-functional team with product, design, and data
- Bias for constantly learning new technologies and driving a culture of excellence across the organization.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to weigh trade-offs. 
- Experience in a fast-paced work environment & a bias for action. You ship quality code quickly and decisively.

**Our stack:**
Our continuous releases are integrated with Buildkite and Github. On the frontend, we create our views with React, manage the flow of data with GraphQL/Relay, and test our application with Jest. On the backend, we’re in the process of decoupling our monolithic Rails app. We have introduced a few network-isolated services using other languages, such as Java and Clojure. Our data is persisted in Postgres and Redis. Our stack is hosted on AWS using Docker.