uShip · 4 weeks ago
Senior Engineering Manager
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$195K/yr - $205K/yr
10+ years expuShip is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead critical engineering teams across our marketplace platform. This role owns the delivery, technical quality, operational health, and talent development of multiple engineering teams in a medium-sized product/platform area.
LogisticsMarketplaceFreight ServiceShipping
No H1B
Responsibilities
Lead 2+ engineering teams or one medium engineering area, setting direction across delivery, technical execution, team health, and operational excellence
Partner with Product, Design, Data, Security, IT, and business stakeholders to shape 6–12 month plans that balance customer impact, business priorities, reliability, security, and performance
Actively champion product innovation and guide greenfield development work, enabling teams to build new capabilities
Set a high technical bar without being the primary implementer. Review major designs, ask strong tradeoff questions, and ensure teams make sound decisions around scalability, simplicity, maintainability, security, observability, and cost
Develop engineering leaders and managers to decentralize decision-making, ensuring teams are empowered to consistently make high-quality technical and product choices
Drive predictable execution across teams by clarifying ownership, milestones, dependencies, risks, and decision points
Improve engineering practices across code review, testing, CI/CD, documentation, production readiness, incident response, and post-incident follow-through
Build healthy, high-accountability teams through hiring, coaching, performance management, retention, and clear expectations
Qualification
Required
10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including strong exposure to architecture, system design, reliability, security, and production operations
5+ years managing engineering teams, managers, senior engineers, or technical leads
Experience leading multiple teams or a medium-sized engineering area through complex product, platform, infrastructure, or modernization work
Experience implementing and scaling responsible AI Tool usage throughout the Software Development Life Cycle
Strong technical judgment across distributed systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, testing, observability, incident management, and secure software delivery
Proven ability to partner with Product and Design to shape roadmaps, manage scope, and connect engineering work to customer and business outcomes
Experience hiring, coaching, developing, and performance-managing engineering talent
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences
Preferred
Experience with AWS, Terraform or Infrastructure as Code, GitHub Actions, containerized workloads, Kubernetes/EKS/ECS, serverless architectures, and observability platforms and standards such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Open Telemetry, or Prometheus
Experience leading rearchitecture, cloud migration, front-end modernization, or platform consolidation work
Familiarity with marketplace, logistics, payments, identity, e-commerce, or other operationally complex product domains
Experience with third-party integrations or platforms such as Stripe, Okta, Cloudflare, MongoDB, Project44, or similar technologies
Experience improving engineering operating models, including planning cadence, delivery metrics, SLOs, incident response, quality gates, and production-readiness standards
Track record of developing managers, Staff+ engineers, and technical leaders into broader-scope roles
Experience balancing product delivery, technical debt, reliability, security, cost, and team health across a 6–12 month horizon
Benefits
Remote or hybrid work options
Monthly Wellness Reimbursements
Home office Reimbursements
Company paid meal delivery pass
100% Paid Health and Dental available
401(k) matching, no vesting
Stock Options
Pet Insurance
Dog-friendly downtown office
Company
uShip
uShip is online transport marketplace primarily serving the freight, household goods, and vehicle shipping markets.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$69.71MKey Investors
DB SchenkerKleiner PerkinsDAG Ventures
2017-02-15Series D· $25M
2013-06-12Series Unknown· $18.35M
2013-03-07Series C· $1.36M
Leadership Team
Heather Hoover-Salomon
Chief Executive Officer
Constantine Xeros
Head of Strategic Partnerships
Recent News
2026-06-23
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