About this role
About the Role
Shipper TMS is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to own a team of backend, frontend, and QA engineers building our shipper-facing TMS product. You'll partner with Product and the team's tech leads to set technical direction, run delivery, and grow your engineers - while staying hands-on enough to guide real architecture and code-quality decisions in a Java/Spring Boot backend.
Your first 3-6-12 months will be defined together with your manager: ramp on the codebase and team, then take ownership of roadmap, delivery, and people development.
What You'll Do
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Execution & delivery
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Work with Product to turn requirements into well-scoped, sequenced work; set and hold delivery milestones.
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Track team health at each stage of the SDLC; unblock bottlenecks and adjust process as needed.
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Keep your team aligned with other Engineering squads.
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Communicate roadmap, trade-offs, and risk clearly to Product, Design, and other stakeholders — assessed in the panel interview, and day-to-day through cross-team syncs and written updates.
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Technical leadership
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Set a technical vision tied to company goals and plan ahead for scale — assessed via a roadmap exercise in the interview, and day-to-day through your quarterly OKRs.
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Own the team's technical roadmap, including strategic tech debt — identify it, size the cost/benefit, and drive prioritization.
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Stay close enough to the code (Java/Spring Boot, Hibernate, RabbitMQ) to ask the right questions, catch bad patterns early, and weigh in on system design and scaling trade-offs — without being the primary code reviewer. In practice: review architecture docs, join incident RCAs for production issues, and run periodic tech-debt reviews for the Shipper TMS backend.
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Set the bar for engineering quality standards: a PR review checklist and minimum test coverage for new code, a rollback plan required before any deploy, and active upkeep of monitoring dashboards and alerts — tuning thresholds and adding new alerts as the system evolves instead of letting them go stale.
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People
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Run regular 1:1s, coaching, and performance reviews; guide career growth and delegate ownership.
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Own headcount planning, hiring, and onboarding for your team.
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Track and improve engineer velocity and quality.
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Competencies
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If you consider yourself an eager learner, a conscientious worker, and a thoughtful, kind, supportive human, you might just thrive at Super Dispatch.
To be successful, you will need a combination of problem-solving, technical, and communication skills. We expect you are:
- Proactive - you act without being told what to do. You bring new ideas to the company.
- Flexible / Adaptable - you adjust quickly to changing priorities and conditions. You cope effectively with complexity and change.
- Move fast - you execute quickly and get things done.
- Growth driven - you seek growth in learning, efficiency, and celebrate wins.
- Customer focus - you are truth-seeking individuals who can empathize with cust