Manager, Software Development

As a member of the ShipBob Team, you will benefit from an environment where everything is achievable. We aim to be a place where you can:

• Write Your Career Story.  Because we are solving some of the most difficult problems in global commerce, you have the opportunity to write the story that will make your career.
• Experience Global Impact and Global Connection.  At ShipBob we benefit from diverse cultures and perspectives in service of the global community.
• Grow With An Ownership Mindset. We believe that great innovation comes from great transparency.  We are more resilient and more creative when we have an inclusive and transparent culture where everyone knows our strengths and opportunities.

Title: Manager, Software Development

Role Description:

As an Engineering Manager at ShipBob, you will be primarily responsible for the delivery of production level software from your teams.  You will work very closely with Product Owners, QA and the Director of Engineering.  

What you’ll do:

• Reporting on team performance and project progress.
• Maintaining good relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Implementing and maintaining best practice engineering methodologies.
• Providing technical guidance to engineering teams and leadership.
• Supporting established organizational objectives by developing goals and strategies for teams and individuals.
• Dismissing and hiring engineers.
• Additional duties and responsibilities as necessary.

What you’ll bring to the table:

• 9+ years of experience.

• Excellent problem solving skills.

• Excellent programming skills.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Object oriented mindset.

• Ability to work quickly and collaboratively in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

• Ability to own small well scoped features and implementation.

• A hands on coding approach to engineering mentorship.

• Ability to own medium sized features from design to implementation.

• A defensive coding mindset with knowledge of OWASP.

• Ability to own large features from design to implementation.

• Ability to own service level system design.

• A passion for QA and an understanding that testing is not someone else’s responsibility.

• A passion for DevOps and an appreciation for continuous integration/deployment.

• Ability to own cross service level system design.

• Experience in the following:

  • SQL
  • JSON
  • REST
  • .Net
  • C#
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • javascript
  • Relational DB Concepts
  • Relational DB Design
  • Agile
  • Team Building
  • Experience automating infrastructure
  • Experience automating build process
  • Microsoft Azure
  • event-driven (EDA) architectures
  • service-oriented (SOA) architectures

• Nice to have:

  • Experience with Vue.js
  • Experience with Azure DevOps
  • Experience with Azure Functions
  • Experience with Azure Webjobs
  • Experience with App Services
  • Experience with Service Bus
  • Experience with Storage Queues

Reports to:  Director, Software Development

Perks & Benefits:

• Medical & Accidental Insurance
• All Purpose Leave (casual & sick time): 12 days
• Earned Leave: 15 days
• Public Holiday: 12 days
• Generous Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Quarterly Wellness Day
• Employee Assistance Program
• Work From Home Allowance
• Referral Bonus Program
• Fun Culture >>>Check us out on Instagram (@lifeatshipbob)

We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence; therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions.

About You:

At ShipBob, we’re looking to bring on board people who embody our core values:

• Be Mission-Driven.   We want team members that are passionate about helping entrepreneurs improve their business, and bring that passion every day.
• Be Humble. We have ambitious goals, and our team members understand that success or failure depends on us working together and leaving egos at the door.
• Be Resilient. Logistics is a complicated business. So is software. We value team members that never give up and keep iterating until a problem is solved.
• Be a Creative Problem Solver. As a startup, we value smart, innovative solutions to complex problems. We fall in love with the problem, not our “favorite” solution.
• Be Safety Minded. It’s not just talk; it’s the way you work.

About Us: 

ShipBob is a cloud-based logistics platform that partners with over 7,000+ e-commerce businesses to help make their entrepreneurial dreams a reality. We offer a full suite of fulfillment solutions for our merchants, including the ability to improve their transit times, shipping costs and deliver best in class experience to their customers. With an almost 100% accuracy rate in fulfilling orders and orders shipped on time, our merchants can count on us to deliver excellent service. 

As one of the fastest growing tech companies in Chicago with over $330M+ raised from blue-chip investors like Menlo Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, our goal is to continue to be the #1 best fulfillment technology in the industry. 

ShipBob provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.