Sr Manager - Software Engineering

Overview

Lead the engineering organization responsible for Freight Hawk and Freight Rate Estimations, two strategic Transportation platforms powering shipment visibility, predictive ETA, freight pricing, and transportation planning.

What you'll do

• Lead and mentor multiple software engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Define and execute the engineering strategy for Freight Hawk and Freight Rate Estimations in alignment with Transportation Technology objectives.
• Drive delivery of strategic initiatives across shipment visibility, predictive ETA, freight pricing, carrier integrations, and platform modernization.
• Partner with Product Management to translate business priorities into scalable technical solutions and predictable delivery plans.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to establish technology direction, engineering standards, and long-term platform evolution.
• Champion cloud-native architectures, event-driven systems, API-first design, observability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
• Improve engineering execution through Agile delivery, release planning, quality engineering, DevSecOps, and engineering metrics.
• Build organizational capability through hiring, coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and talent development.
• Drive platform reliability, security, performance, and scalability while balancing feature delivery with technical debt reduction.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies, stakeholder communication, and engineering risks across multiple Transportation initiatives.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• At least 5 years leading engineering managers or multiple engineering teams.
• Proven experience delivering large-scale distributed systems and enterprise applications in cloud environments.
• Strong experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, REST APIs, messaging platforms, and modern software engineering practices.
• Experience leading Agile software development organizations with a strong focus on engineering excellence and operational reliability.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills.
• Demonstrated success in building high-performing engineering teams and driving organizational change.
• Engineering leadership and people management: leading multiple engineering teams/managers, coaching talent, performance management, hiring, and succession planning.
• Understanding of highly available, scalable enterprise platforms and distributed architectures.
• Hands-on understanding of microservices, REST APIs, Kafka/event streaming, asynchronous processing, and integration patterns.
• Experience with cloud-native applications, Kubernetes/container platforms, CI/CD, DevSecOps, scalability, resiliency, and observability.
• Experience building platforms involving high-volume transactional/event data, data quality, data consistency, and near-real-time processing.
• Ability to influence architecture, modernization strategy, technical debt management, and long-term platform evolution.
• Proven ability to manage multiple roadmaps, dependencies, risks, and large cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong partnership with Product, Architecture, Business, Data, Infrastructure, and other engineering organizations.

Nice to have

• Supply Chain / Transportation / Logistics domain experience.
• Freight pricing/rating, rate shopping, contract/rate management, reconciliation, or freight payment experience.
• Predictive ETA, optimization, or AI/ML-enabled decisioning.
• Kafka, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and modern observability platforms.
• API management and enterprise integration patterns.
• SRE practices, performance engineering, disaster recovery, and production operational excellence.
• Experience modernizing legacy/on-prem platforms to cloud-native architectures.
• FinOps/cost optimization and engineering productivity.
• Experience leading geographically distributed/global teams.

Details

• Based at the on-site office in Bengaluru.