What if... your work empowered change in an industry that essentially impacts the prosperity of the entire world? Forto is in business to exactly do that - disrupt logistics! Simplifying global trade has been our mission from day one. Our exponentially growing team of technology and logistics experts forge ahead each day with the goal to deliver a highly transparent, frictionless and sustainable digital supply chain while chasing towards our moonshot goal of achieving climate neutral operations by 2025.
In our Engineering department we solve one of the biggest challenges of global logistics and supply chain management: reducing the industry's high complexity with a digital and sustainable approach. We architect creative solutions that drive efficiency and innovation.
Your role
The Site Reliability Engineering team at Forto is responsible for reliability and developer experience. We enable our development teams to write complex business logic by providing best-in-class tooling and infrastructure. The Identity and Access Management (IAM) team is responsible for developing and maintaining the authentication and authorization services for our self-developed platform and employee-facing systems. We have a production environment based on GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Helm. On top of that, we have self-service tools written in Typescript and a bit of Go.“You build it, you run it” is a goal for our developers. We love to improve our engineers' lives so they can build, run, observe, and generally own the software they write on all levels.
You will
- Lead two highly interconnected teams of platform engineers and software developers.
- Help develop a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables, adjusting well-defined processes to changing business requirements and ensuring roadmap delivery.
- Establish high technical standards through processes and culture.
- Mentor and coach engineers to help them create a fulfilling career and build individual solid contributors and leaders.
- Work across functions within engineering and product to drive developer experience and site reliability topics.
- Improve team autonomy by enabling & empowering Forto engineers to own security, reliability, and observability as non-functional requirements of their products.
- Ensure roadmap delivery, align the team on the implementation path of product strategy, and balance the needs of building, maintaining, refactoring, scaling, and extending features to support the technology's life properly.
What You Bring
- At least 8 years of Engineering experience and 4 years of Engineering Management experience. Existing expertise in Platform Engineering is required.
- Ability to attract, hire, and coach world-class engineers. You can uplevel existing teams by hiring top-notch senior talent, growing leaders, and helping struggling members. You can gain the trust of the team and guide their careers.
- You navigate and lead a team through challenging situations.
- You enjoy building an agile and blameless culture plus an organization from scratch.
- You like to iterate on problems instead of making and syncing big plans upfront.
- You know how to drive a cross-functional change.
- You have a solid understanding of cloud and platform technologies.
Why Us - You can look forward to
- Personal & Professional Development: From the first day, you will have many opportunities to grow and challenge yourself through solid ownership. Of course, we will support you on this journey.
- Impact: We are leading the digital transformation of a whole industry and share a high awareness of environmental issues on all levels, which is significantly supported by our management.
- Team: Join a team of over 30 nationalities and backgrounds from Tech, Logistics, Business, and more. What matters to us is a caring and welcoming environment where we embrace uniqueness and celebrate diversity.
- Working culture: Experience a company culture where we work at eye level, decisions are made quickly, and knowledge sharing and mentoring are on our daily agenda
- Company language: English
- 17+ offices across Europe & Asia
- 800+ employees
- 30+ nationalities represented
- 2500+ customers
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Team:
- At our core, we are in love with progress and cannot cope with the standstill.
- We are constantly striving for ways to be even better tomorrow. We are facilitators, we are explorers, we are visionaries.
- Forto provides a sense of belonging, where everyone has equal access to opportunities, career advancement and recognition. It stands for a workplace where people from all walks of life, with diverse perspectives and experiences can do their best work, while being their authentic selves. That’s why we encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ages, races, religions, and abilities to apply for our opportunities!
Work Life:
- Experience a company culture where we work on eye level and knowledge sharing, as well as mentoring is on our daily agenda.
- We love our work and tackling business challenges but also believe in the importance of having a healthy balance with our personal life. That's why we appreciate a flexible work setup that fits around family, friends, and physical health.
- We have the freedom to work in a hybrid setup.
Company Offering:
- Sustainability Team
- Emission Offsetting
- Green Energy
- Organic Food
- Paperless Office
- Inspiring Office Spaces
- Flexible Working Hours
- Team & Company Events
- Hybrid Work
- Peer Learning Program
- Mentorship Program
- Leadership Training
- L&D Budget
- Best Onboarding Program
- Visa & Relocation Support
- Remote Onboarding
- Buddy Program
Top Skills
What We Do
Forto was founded with the vision to deliver a highly transparent, frictionless, and sustainable digital supply chain. Forto platform technologies address the entire process stream, from offer, booking, document administration, tracking and tracing to pro-active exemption processing and analysis, supporting our customers with greater visibility, insight, and control. Leading manufacturers and e-commerce brands are among the 2.500 customers using Forto’s digitally-focused offerings as part of their supply chain delivery. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, the company currently has more than 900 employees with 21 locations across Europe and Asia including offices in Berlin, Milan, Ho Chi Minh City, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Forto's privacy policy: https://forto.com/en/privacy-policy/ Our imprint: https://forto.com/en/imprint/
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