Lead Technical Direction for Your Workstream

• Own the technical design and quality of services within your workstream, such as:
  • Multi-client inventory management and warehouse allocation
  • Order intake, routing, and fulfillment orchestration
  • Shipment tracking and carrier integrations
  • Client onboarding and data integration (APIs, EDI, flat-file)
  • Returns and exception-handling workflows
• Break down ambiguous problems into clear technical plans for the engineers on your workstream
• Ensure designs align with overall platform architecture set by Staff engineers

Guide AI-Native Platform Capabilities Within Your Area

• Lead the integration of forecasting, ETA prediction, or anomaly-detection signals into your workstream's fulfillment workflows
• Partner with Staff engineers and data/ML engineers to translate model outputs into reliable operational logic
• Set the standard for how exceptions and anomalies get detected and actioned automatically within your area

Lead Without Direct Reports

• Act as the go-to technical decision-maker for engineers working in your workstream, without formal people-management authority
• Run or contribute heavily to design reviews, unblocking technical debates with sound judgment
• Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and technical guidance
• Flag people or delivery risks to the Engineering Manager, while staying focused on technical leadership yourself

Bring E-commerce & Logistics Domain Expertise

• Apply strong knowledge of order-to-fulfillment flows to guide design decisions and catch edge cases early (backorders, split shipments, peak-volume spikes)
• Guide the team on tradeoffs specific to multi-tenant clients with different fulfillment rules

Raise the Bar on Quality & Reliability

• Set and enforce standards for testing, observability, and reliability within your workstream
• Proactively identify and drive down technical debt as the platform scales
• Ensure your workstream's services are well-documented and easy for others to build on

Collaborate Across the Team

• Work closely with Staff engineers, product, and operations stakeholders to clarify requirements and priorities
• Represent your workstream in cross-team architecture discussions
• Communicate technical tradeoffs and risks clearly to both engineers and stakeholders

Experience

• 6–8+ years of experience building and shipping production backend systems
• Experience informally or formally leading the technical direction of a team or workstream (design reviews, mentorship, setting standards)
• Experience with e-commerce order management, inventory, warehouse, or logistics systems is a strong plus
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, still-being-defined 0-to-1 environment

Technical Skills

• Strong fundamentals in backend engineering: APIs, data modeling, databases, and distributed systems
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and cloud-native service design
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures (queues, streams, async processing)
• Strong testing, debugging, and production-support practices

Technical Leadership

• Ability to set technical direction and make sound judgment calls without direct authority
• Strong code review and mentorship instincts
• Comfort representing a workstream in broader architecture discussions

Domain & AI Exposure (Nice to Have)

• Exposure to EDI standards or 3PL/WMS integration patterns
• Experience integrating ML model outputs (forecasts, predictions, anomaly scores) into application logic
• Interest in growing domain expertise in ecommerce logistics and fulfillment

Collaboration & Communication

• Ability to influence and align engineers without formal authority over them
• Clear written and verbal communication, especially in async, distributed team settings
• Comfort balancing hands-on technical work with guiding others