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Engineering Manager

If nothing gives you more satisfaction than building and mentoring high-performing engineering teams, and you thrive in a culture with a flat organisational structure and an appetite for innovation, then check out this job offer!

Who are we?

ShipitSmarter provides a SaaS product helping companies shipping physical goods. Our new shipping platform Viya connects shippers to multiple carriers, engaging them to save costs and improve their customer delivery experience. With a high-performance and intuitive user interface we make peoples workday just that bit more enjoyable!

Besides having fun with playing boardgames, padel or pool, we enjoy our day having a casual working atmosphere with an appetite for innovation, where loyalty and the will to share means everything.

What do we offer?

Benefits:

  • Gross Monthly salary €6.500 – €9.500 based on 40 hours
  • Training budget of 3.5% of your gross salary
  • Holiday pay 8% of your gross salary
  • Pension scheme
  • Participation in company certificates after one year

Culture & working environment:

  • A fast track into the latest technology
  • Great colleagues (though we say so ourselves)
  • A hybrid working culture
  • Tech-and-Teach Friday sessions
  • Quarterly innovation weeks, allowing us to work on different, original ideas
  • An organisation that loves independent thinkers
  • Having fun while delivering customer value!

What are you going to do?

As Engineering Manager, you will our engineers in our product development organisation. You’ll be responsible for the growth and development of your team members, while ensuring we continue to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions that delight our customers.

Your key responsibilities will be:

  • Lead, mentor, and develop talented engineers to achieve their full potential
  • Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and ownership
  • Conduct regular one-on-ones and provide feedback to drive professional growth
  • Participate in hiring and onboarding of new team members
  • Work closely with product and other teams to align on priorities and execute effectively
  • Remove blockers and provide support to ensure your team’s success
  • Champion technical excellence and best practices across the organisation
  • Help shape our engineering culture and organisational structure

Who are you?

Some characteristics of your sparkling personality:

  • You have a teacher’s attitude
  • You’re a raving enthusiast
  • You have the motivation and stamina to improve our product and develop people
  • You enjoy collaborating in a team
  • You’re a natural communicator who can inspire and motivate others

Your general skills:

  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Your English, both spoken and written, is at a professional level
  • Strong interpersonal and leadership abilities
  • Experience developing people and building high-performing teams

Your technical and professional skills:

  • Proven experience as an engineering manager or technical lead
  • A solid background in software development (you should be able to understand and discuss technical decisions)
  • An opinion on code quality, architecture, and engineering practices
  • Experience with modern software development processes and methodologies
  • Comfortable working in an agile environment

Your application is even more attractive if you have:

  • Experience scaling engineering teams in a fast-growing startup
  • Knowledge of cloud-native development and containerization
  • Familiarity with microservices architectures
  • Experience with the technologies in our tech stack

Our (current) tech stack

Combining great open source solutions with core functionality projects in a GitOps approach to product creation and management:

  • Kubernetes (k8s)
    • ArgoCD
    • Prometheus and Grafana
  • GitHub (https://github.com/ShipitSmarter)
  • Terraform Cloud
  • MongoDB Atlas
  • Google Cloud
  • Golang
  • .NET latest
  • Vue and Astro for frontend

Interested?

Did we arouse your interest, but do you still have some questions? Please get in touch with us; we would be happy to tell you more about it and get to know you.

Do you already see a fit? Send your application and explain why you would like to work with us and how you will make a difference in this position.

You’re welcome to send your questions or application to hrm@shipitsmarter.com. We are looking forward to meeting you!