Senior Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

Optimal Dynamics is a high-growth company focused on redefining logistics decisions through innovative technology. The Senior Engineering Manager will lead the Product Engineering team, overseeing both Frontend and Backend Software Engineers while influencing system architecture and product decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and participate in technical design discussions, actively remove blockers, and continuously drive technical direction and best practices
• Iterate on our agile-inspired process, helping us build better software as a cohesive team
• Collaborate with our analytics, product, and design leadership as we define the scope of projects and plan deliverables
• Mentor engineers on your team, lead projects your team is tasked with, and influence our technical direction
• Facilitate 1-1s with engineers on your team, unblocking and providing regular feedback on goal progression, praise, areas for improvement, and career progression
• Identify areas for your team to learn and expand via project work, external learning, or additional mentorship

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science, a related degree, or equivalent industry experience
• Led Engineering teams and possess in-depth, full-stack knowledge of the applications you've built from the ground up, with a minimum of 5 years of high-level technical leadership experience
• Possess a deep, customer-first mindset, understanding of B2B SaaS user personas, and strategic product development addressing user needs
• Expertise in designing and developing microservices and large-scale distributed systems
• Proficiency in Python, Docker, Kafka, and leveraging AWS services and architecture
• Inspire an atmosphere of continuous improvement as a mentor and technical advisor
• Passionate about automated testing, code quality, and engineering best practices
• Hired and mentored developers and led technical conversations, fostering an environment of empowered decision-making, knowledge sharing, and process improvements
• Managed a team in Agile best practices
• Adept at communicating and collaborating effectively with others, promoting your ideas as well as being humble when you may be wrong
• Thrive in environments with minimal guidance and a plethora of context
• Enjoy taking full ownership of projects from conception to production
• Know how to balance ownership and autonomy with collaboration in a remote environment
• Know how to prioritize focusing your time and effort where most needed with flexibility, dedication, and curiosity
• Experience championing and building necessary tooling/guardrails to ensure productive use of agentic development practices
• Domain Expertise: Transportation, logistics, or broader supply chain industry
• Platform Development effectively integrating and leveraging advanced Machine Learning (ML) and Operations Research (OR) models, collaborating closely with Data Science teams to utilize their expertise