Job Description

Shippeo, the European leader in supply chain visibility, gives shippers,
carriers, and customers instant access to predictive and real-time information
of every delivery.

Our proprietary, machine-learning ETA algorithm accurately calculates arrival
times allowing shippers to quickly anticipate problems, proactively alert end-
customers, and efficiently manage exceptions.

Shippeo helps market-leading companies such as Schneider Electric, Carrefour,
Heineken, Saint-Gobain, and Faurecia leverage transportation to deliver
exceptional customer service and achieve operational excellence

Founded in 2014, Shippeo tracks more than 7 million loads per year throughout
Europe and connects to carriers in more than 62 countries. Shippeo's more than
200 employees have 22 different nationalities, and speak 20 languages! Our
Headquarters are in Paris.

Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to build, lead, mentor and
grow a team of Software Engineers based in Poland & Ukraine in order to
deliver the best product on the market.

You will work closely with the Product Director and the Tech Leads to ensure
the perfect alignment.

You will also have a central role in the delivery and will have to work
successfully with multiple teams within the organization.

You will be the best advocate of our feedback culture, using every insight of
your team to improve the way we work and how we build our product.

**What Shippeo does:**

Our product is composed of a mission critical SaaS web platform, with high
traffic inbound/outbound integrations. Our mission is to anticipate problems
and proactively alert end-customers so they can efficiently manage exceptions.
We achieve this by collecting and matching millions of theoretical and real
data from different stakeholders.

Shippeo gives visibility to shippers, carriers and customers by answering the
following questions:

* where is the truck, and are there any foreseeable delays?
* what has actually been loaded and/or delivered, and are there any discrepancies?
* what are the levers for improvement for the transport operations?

The technical team is structured in three Tribes, each split into multiple
feature teams:

1. Connect & Go Live: quickly connect shippers & carriers to have the project ‘live’
2. Track to React: make our product as sticky as possible for daily users
3. Analyze & Predict: leverage our data to build data products (extraction, analytics, decision support tools, algorithms)

**What you will do:**

Build, lead, mentor and grow a team of Software Engineers
Work closely with VP Engineering, Product Directors and the Tech Leads
Facilitate the work of every member of the team and anticipate any roadblocks
that could derail the execution of the sprints
Owner at a quarter level of our OKR framework and ensure that all the product
initiatives planned are doable
Responsible for the execution of the sprint : ensure that everything we need
to deliver is understood, estimated and prioritized according to the quarterly
objectives
Follow the delivery and report with a KPI-oriented mindset (handling the
capacity, measuring the velocity, highlight the achievements)
Work closely with other Engineering Managers, to identify and unblock
dependencies, and to share the more complete and transparent progress
Owner of the project deadlines
Push for quality and for the best engineering practices to ensure the delivery
of scalable, resilient, and high performing developments
Bring your best management practices (regular 1:1, team retrospective, goal
setting) to create an effective feedback loop
Hire, manage and retain talent across the whole organization

**What we offer:**

Competitive salary, based on experience
Laptop of your choice
Strong team spirit and regular team-building events
Tickets to attend tech conferences
Online course providers
Business trips

**Qualifications:**

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Technology
Experience of minimum 5 years in building and working in fast-paced, high-
performing agile teams
Experience of at least 2 years building, mentoring and leading fast-paced,
high-performing engineering teams in an International Company
Experience of any object-oriented language (preferably PHP) and/or a scripting
language
You have performed in complex technical ecosystems, ideally event-driven
You have already handled large scale projects with multiple cross-team
dependencies and various stakeholders
Experience with Kanban management solutions (JIRA, Zenhub)
Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, observability tools (Grafana, Kibana)
Ability to collaborate with many teams across the organization
Strong interpersonal skills with an emphasis on decision-making, conflict
management and team building
Able to motivate a team, recognize good talent and bring out the best out of
each individual
Able to communicate with all levels of management and peers within the
organization
Excellent proficiency in English

Shippeo focuses on SaaS and Transportation. Their company has offices in
Paris, Netherlands, and Düsseldorf. They have a mid-size team that's between
51-200 employees. To date, Shippeo has raised $40M of funding; their latest
round was closed on October 2022.

You can view their website at <http://www.shippeo.com/> or find them on
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/shippeofra), [Facebook](https://fr-
fr.facebook.com/shippeo), and
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/shippeo).

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