Our Company
What if your work would empower change in an industry that essentially impacts the prosperity of the entire world? Forto is in business to disrupt logistics! Simplifying global trade has been our mission from day one. Our technology and logistics experts forge ahead each day to deliver a highly transparent, frictionless, and sustainable digital supply chain while chasing our moonshot goal of achieving climate-neutral operations by 2025.
We’re looking for a strategic, people-oriented leader to drive the evolution of 3 of our service fulfillment product teams.
As Forto's Head of Engineering for Co-Pilot and PAW, your main tasks will include:
- Technical Leadership: Drive the architectural decision-making and strategy for some of our key service fulfillment teams, including our critical AI projects.
- Operational Excellence: Ensuring the continuous improvement of our products, tracking metrics, and ensuring that we continue to enhance our performance, maintainability and scalability
- Mentorship and Development: Build, mentor, and inspire a high-performing engineering team to tackle complex logistics challenges. Foster a collaborative and innovative culture, encouraging continuous learning and improvement across the team.
- Team Development: Guide and support skilled engineering teams to foster unity and empower each member to deliver significant results.
- Collaboration: Engage with tech leaders and stakeholders to ensure our technical strategies support broader business objectives and are cohesive across the tech organization
You are right with us if:
- Technical leadership: Ability to set technical goals to show the business impact they deliver. Extensive experience balancing risk, quality and delivery and partnering with Product to build best in class technical solutions.
- People Leadership: Proven record in managing technical teams and fostering employees' professional growth.
- Strategic Vision: Demonstrated ability to think strategically and develop long-term technology roadmaps that align with business goals. Proven experience leveraging emerging technologies and market trends to shape competitive technical solutions.
- Technical Proficiency: Solid experience in architecture and technical design, expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern software development practices (e.g., CI/CD, microservices architecture, DevOps).
- Communication Skills: Ability to work with the business and leadership side to create an understanding of what the team is doing and how this impacts the overall business.
- Excellent English skills, both spoken and written.
- The ability to work in an agile, multi-national, distributed organization
What You Bring
- At least 8 years of Engineering experience and 4 years of Engineering Management experience.. Experience as a Head Of is a great plus.
- 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 multiple teams through challenging situations.
- You enjoy building an agile and blameless culture.
- 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/
