About the role
Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team building scalable supply chain and warehouse technology platforms.
- Drive the design, development, and delivery of distributed systems powering inventory management, warehouse operations, fulfilment, logistics, and reverse logistics.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Operations, Data Science, and Business teams to translate complex supply chain challenges into scalable technology solutions.
- Own engineering execution, sprint planning, delivery, technical quality, and operational excellence.
- Define engineering best practices around scalability, reliability, observability, security, and performance.
- Drive architectural decisions for cloud-native, event-driven, and microservices-based platforms.
- Build highly available systems capable of supporting rapidly growing warehouse and fulfilment operations.
- Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.
- Hire, coach, and develop engineers while creating strong career growth opportunities within the team.
Requirements:
- 10-15 years of software engineering experience, including 2-5 years of engineering management experience.
- Strong backend engineering background with expertise in Java and modern distributed systems.
- Proven experience building large-scale supply chain, warehouse management (WMS), fulfilment, logistics, inventory, or order management platforms.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, event-driven systems, distributed systems, REST APIs, and system design.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Hands-on experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc. ), caching technologies, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience leading engineering teams in Agile environments with strong delivery ownership.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, conduct technical reviews, and build high-performing teams.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience with Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Transportation Management Systems (TMS), inventory management, or reverse logistics platforms.
- Background in e-commerce, retail, supply chain, logistics, or marketplace companies.
- Exposure to AI-driven supply chain optimisation, forecasting, automation, or operational analytics.
- Experience scaling engineering teams in high-growth product organisations.
- Strong understanding of operational excellence, platform reliability, and engineering metrics.