Director of Engineering

Global-e (Nasdaq: GLBE) is the world's leading platform to enable and accelerate global, direct-to-consumer cross-border e-commerce growth. The chosen partner of hundreds of retailers and brands across the United States, Europe and Asia, Global-e makes selling internationally as simple as selling domestically. With Global-e, retailers and brands can increase international traffic conversion and grow sales by offering customers in over 200 destinations worldwide a seamless localized shopping experience. Our end-to-end e-commerce solutions combine best-in-class localization capabilities, big-data best-practice business intelligence models, streamlined international logistics and vast cross-border experience, enabling online retailers to sell to and from anywhere in the world and seamlessly expand their brand worldwide. Our people play the key role in our success, and we are always looking for more driven, talented and ambitious individuals to join our growing international family.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Reporting to the Sr. Director of Engineering, the Director of Engineering is responsible for leading a mission critical product engineering team focused on delivering key capabilities related to Logistics. At Global-e, one of the key capabilities we offer is the ability to serve as Merchant of Record for online purchases - enabling us to absorb much of the tax, compliance and logistics responsibilities globally. Our Logistics team focuses directly on delivering the set of key features to our merchants.

We have built a world class product that offers our merchants sophisticated capabilities, while keeping the integration streamlined via a canonical API. We are looking for this leader to join and champion the mission of the team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Execute repeatable delivery and continuously improve the end-to-end software delivery process.
• Bring a rigorous approach to delivering quality software
• Develop and promote a learning culture in the organization that understands failure is a mandatory component of success
• Attract and retain exceptional talent to grow our current engineering team
• Coach engineers to grow them professionally
• Team career development and performance management
• Collaborate with the technology leadership team and cross functional leaders to ensure we continue to build great products and deliver significant value to merchants

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience leading an engineering organization building business-critical, complex products
• Exceptional architecture abilities and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale distributed applications
• Shipped several large-scale projects with multiple dependencies across teams
• Strong organizational and analytical skills to lead teams in a variety of complex tasks
• A consistent track record of creating a high-performing, collaborative culture that delivers high-quality products
• Track record in partnering with recruiting to build incredible engineering teams
• Track record of coaching experienced and emerging managers and senior individual contributors
• Excellent communication skills and can create alignment with other leaders and decision makers in a fast-moving environment
• SaaS, logistics, or ecommerce experience a plus

Global-e is an equal opportunity employer. Our team is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and welcome applications from people of all walks of life.

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