Director, Engineering

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At FourKites, we enable a trillion dollar logistics industry to become adaptive with a deep fabric of integrated real time data, predictive analytics and phenomenal customer service. 

We solve big problems - not just because we want to, but because our customers demand that of us. We track millions of assets in over 60 countries globally, we created a highly available born-in-the-cloud platform to support this highly demanding, data driven business.

About the team:

We welcome people from all backgrounds who are driven by a passion of creating great engineering teams and awesome products that users love. We are looking for a passionate, entrepreneurial & hands-on engineering leader to lead our engineering team in Chicago. You should love working with and coaching engineers. We have a distributed team so your ninja-like communication skills will come to good use. We value team cohesion and leaders who are collaborative in their approach.

 What you'll be doing:

  • You will lead a distributed engineering team and serve as the head of engineering in Chicago.
  • Hire, nurture and mentor top engineering talent. Create a team to be proud of!
  • Understand the business working closely with product management, customer service and support to help inform engineering roadmaps, priorities and be responsive to customer needs.
  • Enable your team to innovate and deliver roadmap features with agility and high quality
  • Execute consistently, rapidly, and effectively to take ideas from concept to production and drive delivery excellence.
  • Be a caretaker of the platform. Champion availability, scalability, resiliency, performance, observability and maintainability as part of ongoing development.
  • Represent your team and product line in cross-functional discussions.
  • Support product operations and SRE teams in backstopping production issues and incidents.

Who you are:

  • Overall 12+ years of experience in software development & strong computer science fundamentals with 5+ years managing a team of 10+ software engineers
  • Strong design and architecture exposure in building large scale enterprise SaaS solutions using cloud technologies.
  • Experience in designing, implementing and maintaining high performance, high availability (24x7), large-scale web/mobile based software applications leveraging Node.js, Java, RESTful APIs, etc.
  • Knowledge of popular JS frameworks and libraries (React or Angular, Backbone, Underscore, etc.)
  • Experience with Web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, Webpack, LESS, Bootstrap, Dust
  • Experience with Relational and No-SQL databases, message queues/brokers
  • Exposure to big data technologies including Hadoop, Spark, Kafka and Elasticsearch
  • Strong communication skills and ability to grasp and convey complex product requirements or technical concepts
  • Ability to work in a fast paced, iterative development environment
  • Excellent command of software development life cycle activities including analysis, design, development, unit and system testing, production deployment and post-production support

FourKites is the largest predictive supply chain visibility platform, delivering real-time visibility and predictive analytics for the broadest network of Global 1000 companies and third-party logistics firms. Using a proprietary algorithm to calculate shipment arrival times, FourKites enables customers to lower operating costs, improve on-time performance and strengthen end-customer relationships. With a network of more than four million GPS/ELD devices, FourKites covers all modes, including truckload, LTL, ocean, rail, intermodal, last mile and parcel. The platform is optimized for mobile and equipped with market-leading end-to-end security.

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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Product
  • Sales & Marketing
    • GolangLanguages
    • JavaLanguages
    • JavascriptLanguages
    • PythonLanguages
    • RLanguages
    • RubyLanguages
    • SqlLanguages
    • ReactLibraries
    • Node.jsFrameworks
    • Ruby on RailsFrameworks
    • AzureFrameworks
    • Google AnalyticsAnalytics
    • IllustratorDesign
    • PhotoshopDesign
    • ConfluenceManagement
    • JIRAManagement
    • SalesforceCRM

Location

110 North Upper Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606

An Insider's view of FourKites

How does your team reward individual success?

We find that getting to know what motivates a team member allows us to give more valuable and appreciated rewards and recognition. It could be a team meeting shout out for a job well done, a gift card through our wish list program, an exciting new project that allows the employee to work with new teams or departments or even a spot bonus.

Amanda

Director, Talent & Development, Talent Acquisitions

What projects are you most excited about?

I had the privilege of being involved in the development of Appointment Manager and providing feedback when it was just a "simple" calendar designed to assist our customers in organizing appointments based on real-time ETAs. The utilization of this tool yields significant time savings, making it an undeniable favorite of mine.

Kayla

Customer Enablement Manager

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

From day one, I have been encouraged to explore my professional interests. I had only been an individual contributor in previous roles but was interested in people management – here, I have had the opportunity to grow into a manager role and the company has sponsored my participation in leadership programs to support my professional development.

Helen

Manager of Professional Services

How do you empower your team to be more creative?

The design team goes beyond being creative. We are strategic thinkers who execute scalable and sustainable product user experiences for our customers. Empathy is at the core of our design and more importantly, the entire FourKites company. I always encourage my team to think through our customer's lens in order to be the most impactful.

James

VP of Global User Experience

What are FourKites Perks + Benefits

FourKites Benefits Overview

We provide an elite tier of benefits and wellness programs, have a bias for promoting within, and an array of global culture & connection programs and committees, such as DEI Employee Councils, FourKites Pride, and FourKites Women's groups.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Pair programming
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Hybrid work model
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Highly diverse management team
Mandated unconscious bias training
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Mental health benefits
Wellness days
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Company sponsored family events
Fertility benefits
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Bereavement leave benefits
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Recreational clubs
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks

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