Engineering Director
Core
Lead the Product Development organization to power ShipMonk's e-commerce fulfillment platform, orchestrating warehouses, robots, and carriers to move 100,000+ orders daily for 1,500+ merchants.
Role type
Director of Engineering (Product Development)
Builds
E-commerce fulfillment platform (warehouses, autonomous robots, iOS picker devices, conveyors, carriers)
Domain
Logistics / E-commerce / Supply Chain
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Engineering leadership (managing managers), team scaling (25-60 engineers), delivery ownership, business strategy translation, hiring senior talent, scope prioritization, cross-functional collaboration, modern backend engineering practices, written English
Preferred skills
E-commerce/logistics/WMS/OMS domain experience, scale-up-to-mature transition, PHP/Symfony/Doctrine/MySQL stack, monorepo workflows, monolith decomposition, AI-assisted development, distributed team leadership, public technical footprint
Technologies
PHP 8.5, Symfony 7.4, Doctrine ORM 3, MySQL 8, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, Argo CD, GitLab CI, PHPStan, PHP_CodeSniffer, PHPUnit, DataDog, Sentry, Opsgenie
Responsibilities
Translate company strategy into concrete roadmaps and OKRs, manage headcount forecasting and ROI justification, hire and develop high-performing teams, lead design reviews and incident response, sequence work for highest merchant impact, run transparent quarterly OKR cycles
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC leader
