Engineering Manager, International Expansion
- Level
- Senior
- Apply from
- United States
About the role
- Lead a team of engineers in building scalable solutions.
- Focus on international expansion and user experience.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams for system integration.
- Mentor engineers to foster a culture of technical excellence.
- Drive improvements in the e-commerce platform.
Skills the posting asks for
- Ruby on Rails
- Elixir
- PostgreSQL
Summarised from the employer’s posting, which is reproduced in full below.
The employer’s full posting
About The Role
In this role, you will lead a team of engineers building and evolving the systems that power our customer experience. You will guide engineers in delivering robust, scalable solutions across our commerce platform, driving improvements that directly enhance how our customers shop, buy, and engage with us every day. This position involves close collaboration with cross-functional partners, including Product and ML, and managing integrations with our internal systems to keep operations running seamlessly as the business grows. This role is ideal for a technical leader with strong distributed-systems depth and a track record of developing engineers, who is excited by the challenge of building at e-commerce scale.
What You Get To Do Every Day
Minimum Requirements:
In this role, you will lead a team of engineers building and evolving the systems that power our customer experience. You will guide engineers in delivering robust, scalable solutions across our commerce platform, driving improvements that directly enhance how our customers shop, buy, and engage with us every day. This position involves close collaboration with cross-functional partners, including Product and ML, and managing integrations with our internal systems to keep operations running seamlessly as the business grows. This role is ideal for a technical leader with strong distributed-systems depth and a track record of developing engineers, who is excited by the challenge of building at e-commerce scale.
What You Get To Do Every Day
- You will lead and mentor a team of talented software engineers in designing and implementing high-quality software solutions.
- Lead the engineering efforts in our e-commerce platform, focusing on scalability, user experience, and international expansion strategies.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, ML team, and marketing, to develop and implement international capabilities to buyers.
- Oversee the development and maintenance of our core systems built on Ruby on Rails and Elixir, ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
- Mentor and manage a team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement, encouraging team members to explore new technologies and practices.
- Work cross-functionally with various teams to align engineering activities with broader company objectives.
Minimum Requirements:
- Proven track record in managing and scaling distributed, public cloud-native systems and services.
- Hands-on experience in collaborating with machine learning teams.
- Strong understanding of relational database systems (MySQL or PostgreSQL preferred).
- Excellent leadership skills with the ability to mentor and inspire a team of engineers.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Strong system design fundamentals and some real people-management experience, with a track record of helping engineers level up.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Extensive experience in Ruby on Rails development and architecture.
- Experience in working on and improving performance of Jamstack based applications.
- Experience with CRMs such as Salesforce.
- Experience with Elixir or a willingness to learn and incorporate it into our tech stack.
- Experience with localization / internationalization and cross-border systems in larger organizations.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- 401K with Company Match
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Paid Parental Leave
- 9 Paid Company Holidays
- Flexible Time Off (With Manager Approval)
- Find out more about our Benefits here.