Software Engineering Manager

  • Engineering
  • Greater Seattle Area
  • Full Time
Flexe solves the hardest omnichannel logistics problems for the world’s largest retailers and brands. Integrating technology, open logistics networks, and elastic economic models allows Flexe customers to move fast, at scale, and with precision. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Flexe brings deep logistics expertise and enterprise-grade technology to deliver innovative eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution, same-day delivery, and network capacity programs to the Fortune 500. Flexe is transforming the $1.6T logistics industry.
As a Software Development Manager, you will lead a team of software engineers to build scalable and flexible warehouse management systems. You will own hiring, coaching and career development of your direct reports. You will own the technical vision and roadmap of the warehouse management system and relevant APIs.  You will work with a cross functional team including  product management, project management, design, operations, business development, and executive teams to bring ideas to market. A successful candidate will be strong in developing software engineering teams as well as building successful customer facing software products. 

What You Will Do:

  • Hire, man­age, and grow a soft­ware engi­neer­ing team.
  • Work with prod­uct man­agers on strat­e­gy and roadmap devel­op­ment for short, medi­um and long term.
  • Own the plan and deliv­ery of mis­sion crit­i­cal projects.
  • Work with engi­neer­ing to make sure our soft­ware archi­tec­ture is high­ly avail­able and scalable.
  • Pro­mote best prac­tices in soft­ware design, devel­op­ment, test and deployment. 

Does This Sound Like You?

  • A proven track record of build­ing suc­cess­ful enter­prise or con­sumer fac­ing prod­ucts as a soft­ware engi­neer, tech lead or soft­ware devel­op­ment manager.
  • 5 years of hands-on soft­ware devel­op­ment experience.
  • 2+ years of expe­ri­ence in man­ag­ing, men­tor­ing, and lead­ing soft­ware engi­neer­ing teams. 
  • Excel­lent soft­ware project man­age­ment skills
  • Effec­tive writ­ten and oral com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills, both tech­ni­cal and non-technical.
  • Deep under­stand­ing of soft­ware archi­tec­ture and soft­ware devel­op­ment best practices.
  • Strong quan­ti­ta­tive data analy­sis and crit­i­cal think­ing skills
  • Start­up and Sup­ply Chain expe­ri­ence a plus.


    • The salary range for this role is $184,500 to $215,300 depend­ing, in part, on can­di­date loca­tion. Recruit­ing will con­firm the spe­cif­ic range for the can­di­date loca­tion in the ini­tial phone screen. All employ­ees receive com­pa­ny equi­ty as part of their com­pen­sa­tion pack­age. As part of our pay for per­for­mance based pay pro­gram, this role is eli­gi­ble to poten­tial­ly receive mer­it bonus­es of up to 15% of base salary based on indi­vid­ual performance.

Ben­e­fits:

Our ben­e­fits pack­age at Flexe is thought­ful­ly designed to help our employ­ees lead healthy lives inside and out­side of work.

  • Med­ical, den­tal, and vision insurance 

  • 401k with employ­er match 

  • 4 weeks of paid time off, an addi­tion­al 13 paid com­pa­ny hol­i­days (10 stan­dard hol­i­days, 2 float­ing hol­i­days and your birthday!)

  • 2 days of vol­un­teer PTO

  • 12 weeks of com­pa­ny-paid parental leave

  • Ful­ly remote, in-office, or hybrid work environment 

  • $300 home office stipend and month­ly home inter­net reimbursement

  • Employ­ee sup­port groups, social groups, and men­tor­ship program

  • Employ­ee-dri­ven pro­grams for volunteering

  • Man­ag­er devel­op­ment pro­gram and resources

  • Access to free LinkedIn Learn­ing courses

We look forward to hearing from you.

Flexe par­tic­i­pates in E‑Verify, an employ­ment autho­riza­tion pro­gram through the U.S. Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­ri­ty and the Social Secu­ri­ty Administration.

Flexe is com­mit­ted to cre­at­ing a diverse envi­ron­ment and is proud to be an equal oppor­tu­ni­ty employ­er. All qual­i­fied appli­cants will receive con­sid­er­a­tion for employ­ment with­out regard to race, col­or, reli­gion, gen­der, gen­der iden­ti­ty or expres­sion, sex­u­al ori­en­ta­tion, nation­al ori­gin, genet­ics, dis­abil­i­ty, age, or vet­er­an status.

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