Open position at ShipMonk Product Development
Director of Engineering
- Work schedule
- Full-time
- Address
- Rohanské nábř. 29, 186 00 Praha 8-Karlín, Česko
We're seeking a Director of Engineering to lead our B2B and Transportation teams at ShipMonk. We want someone passionate about solving customer issues, unafraid of challenges, and eager to share knowledge. The ideal candidate is a seasoned engineering leader with a track record of driving growth and technical excellence.

About the Teams
The Transportation team is responsible for delivering packages worldwide. It specializes in communicating with carrier APIs, selecting the best shipping options, and tracking the shipment from packaging to delivery to the end customer.
The B2B team is focused on enabling and optimizing B2B fulfillment workflows. This includes managing retail compliance, routing guides, labeling, appointment scheduling, and other operational requirements for shipping to major retailers. They drive continuous innovation to improve accuracy, efficiency, and compliance in B2B order processing, working closely with other WMS domains to ensure seamless integration and performance.
They builds robust, scalable systems using PHP, TypeScript, Java, MySQL, and RabbitMQ, with a strong DevOps culture across both cloud and on-prem deployments.
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.
- Leverages past experience and uses strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with all stakeholders including customers, senior management, and other business leaders
Technical excellence and execution-focused:
- Contributes to architecture by asking the right questions to ensure architecture matches business needs for the area
- Extensive technical experience, including hands-on development in scalable distributed applications.
- Researches new technologies to stay abreast of industry trends and standards.
- Provides leadership to software development managers,and addresses technical, resource, and personnel issues
- As necessary, the director manages vendor and external relationships for their organization and participates in the budgeting process
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! 🚀
If you like our story, we look forward to seeing your resume, profile, story, or anything else you might have! There are no limits to creativity. Our Recruiter, Dominika, will get back to you as soon as possible. We look forward to hearing from you.