Who We Are
Arrive Logistics is a leading transportation and technology company in North America with plans to grow significantly year over year. Our success is a testament to our remarkable team and what we’re building together. We’re committed to providing employees with a meaningful work experience and have established an award-winning culture that supports personal and career development in a fun, casual, and collaborative environment.
Who We Want
As an Engineering Manager on the Platform Engineering team at Arrive Logistics, you will be responsible for leading a team of Engineers to execute on complex software initiatives for the internal developer platform. Your role requires empathizing with the engineer experience, identifying bottlenecks and pain points, and providing creative solutions to accelerate the work of other engineers. You will ensure the platform reduces the cognitive complexity of delivering business value and meets the dynamic demands of Arrive’s internal and external customers. This role requires a leader to navigate and champion change, foster a culture of excellence and collaboration, and own the engagement and professional development of the engineers on the Platform Engineering team.
What You’ll Do
- Lead and manage a Platform Engineering team, ensuring members of the team’s performance aligns with the overall department goals by holding direct reports accountable to performance expectations.
- Coach, mentor, and advocate for your engineers, growing a stronger team through stronger individuals.
- Responsible for the delivery of high-quality, scalable platform solutions to production on a regular basis, owning the quality, documentation, tests, and communication across teams.
- Manage the team’s day-to-day with a high level of awareness of what your team/teams are doing to remove blockers and ensure efforts are aligned with the priorities.
- Keep your team informed of the priorities and vision that is driving the organization, making sure they understand the what and the why, to advance the organization’s goals.
- Work with the Director of Engineering, peers, and Product partners to scope, plan, and execute platform initiatives with impeccable communication around estimates and risk.
- Advance the organization’s goals within your team and ensure success in hitting them.
- Drive the development of custom tools and automation that hide Kubernetes complexity, streamline onboarding, remove manual toil, and improve mean time to detection and resolution.
- Oversee the design of robust CI/CD pipelines for applications and infrastructure.
- Partner with stakeholders across the organization to understand and drive requirements for the internal developer platform, assessing benefit and risk analysis, and advising on the best course of action.
- Contribute your leadership and expertise to the broader organization, influencing more than just your direct team.
- Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders and SMEs to support growth initiatives and drive alignment on shared vision and objectives.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of engineering experience, with significant time spent in systems, software, platform, site reliability, or DevOps engineering
- 1+ year of people management or team leadership experience, including performance and career development.
- Demonstrated ability to pragmatically balance business priorities with technical constraints.
- Experience driving initiatives, while holding teams accountable for results and ensuring continuous improvement.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Significant experience building or operating cloud applications on a major provider such as Azure (preferred), AWS, or GCP.
- Expertise or significant experience with containerized workloads and Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems.
The Perks of Working With Us
- Take advantage of our comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and supplemental coverage.
- Invest in your future with our matching 401(k) program.
- Build relationships and find your home at Arrive through our Employee Resource Groups.
- Enjoy office wide engagement activities, team events, happy hours and more!
- Leave the suit and tie at home; our dress code is casual.
- Work in the booming city of Austin, TX – we are in a convenient location close to the airport and downtown.
- Park your car for free on site!
- Start your morning with a specialty drink from our fully stocked coffee bar, Broker’s Brew.
- Sweat it out with the team at our onsite gym.
- Maximize your wellness with free counseling sessions through our Employee Assistance Program
- Take time to manage your physical and mental health – we offer company paid holidays, paid vacation time and wellness days.
- Receive 100% paid parental leave when you become a new parent.
- Get paid to work with your friends through our Referral Program!
- Get relocation assistance! If you are not local to the area, we offer relocation packages.
Your Arrive Experience
When we say “award-winning culture,” we mean it. We’ve been recognized as a top workplace by Inc. Fast Company, Fortune, and earned Top Workplaces and Great Place to Work, to name a few. We intend on topping many more of those lists in the years to come, but we’re not in it for the trophies. We’re committed to culture because it keeps us connected to each other and invested in our shared success while having a blast along the way. Our employee-founded resource groups create communities within Arrive’s walls, including Women in Logistics, Emerging Professionals, Prisms, Black Logistics Group, Salute and Unidos.
Notice:
To ensure a safe and transparent interview process, we want to note that Arrive Logistics adheres to strict recruitment practices. Candidates undergo an interview process, and Arrive Logistics does not provide unsolicited job offers. If you have concerns about receiving a fraudulent offer, please contact talentacquisition@arrivelogistics.com for verification.