Development Manager

About the team:

The Inventory Management Team at ShipMonk is a part of the Inventory Domain which consists of people, products, policies, and processes that together ensure inventory accuracy, Minimize inventory adjustments, Optimize storage health, and Provide best-in-class transparency. They innovate constantly to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and customer capabilities using PHP, Typescript, MySQL, RabbitMQ, and other technologies. They maintain a DevOps culture with both Cloud and on-prem deployments, collaborating daily with other ShipMonk teams for seamless order management, billing, and channel integrations.

Skills & Responsibilities:

Stakeholder management:

• Demonstrated success in interacting with and managing diverse stakeholders.
• Proactive and effective communicator among senior management.
• Ability to build strong relationships across various business functions.
• Skilled in educating stakeholders on the value and potential of the engineering function.

Technical excellence and execution-focused: 

• Extensive technical experience, including hands-on development in scalable distributed applications.
• Proven ability to earn team trust while in a leadership position.
• Strong understanding of agile and lean development principles.
• Excellent grasp of modern technologies across front end, back end, cloud, and data platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to lead team strategy, development, and operations effectively.

People leadership & team management: 

• Proven experience managing and scaling high-caliber engineering teams.
• Inspiring and engaging leadership style with a vision-setting ability.
• Strong history of attracting, developing, and retaining top talent.
• Demonstrated ability to cultivate a progressive technology culture.
• Proficient in implementing effective structures, processes, and practices for engineering success.
• Comfortable making difficult decisions as an established leader.

Highly strategic and commercially astute:

• Strong prioritization skills to guide teams effectively.
• Insight into product strategy and the ability to develop business plans.
• Experienced in balancing challenges and gaining stakeholder buy-in.
• Ideally, background includes working in customer-centric environments integrating technology into business strategies.

Desired Experience

• Demonstrated ability to lead and grow teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent problem-solving, strategic thinking, and communication skills.
• Ability to foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• Experience in hiring & recruitment and building empowered product engineering teams. 
• Agile development experience is essential.
• Ability to collaborate with Product Management to balance technical constraints while delivering value to customer that is aligned with business objectives
• Familiarity with OKR methodology and being outcome-driven

Join us at ShipMonk and be part of a team that's shaping the future of logistics! 🚀

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