Director Software Integrations

Crane Worldwide Logistics

25d

About The Position

Essential Job Functions

Execution:
Deliver high-quality backend services and tools, utilizing a
contract[1]first development approach
Develop tooling, policy, and process to establish standards around
developer workflow, design, and validation
Drive reliability with resilient architecture, observability-first design,
and investment in safe-by-default continuous deployments
Establish a coherent internal tool/API ecosystem to enable client
integrations, application development, and AI automation teams
Work closely with application/system owners and our Data Engineering team
to maintain canonical definitions across our API and event ecosystem
Invest in developer experience to create a high-velocity environment with
compounding workflow benefits

People:
Shape teams and architecture together to create low-handoff, highly
parallelizable workflows, while guarding against siloing
Increase engineering talent depth through hiring and coaching
Implement a streamlined, selective hiring process to match rapid growth
needs
Establish engineering teams in new geographies as needed, without
compromising on hiring standards
Lead with empathy and foster a growth mindset
Strategy:
Drive technical strategy for software integrations
Partner with engineering and application teams to shape the roadmap for the
connective tissue of our technology ecosystem o Craft department structure
by intentionally designing teams, roles, and technical architecture to
enable a highly autonomous operating model with clear ownership o Work with
leadership peers across the organization to influence cross[1]team
architecture & company-level process

Other duties as assigned 

Physical Requirements

Talking, hearing and using hands to operate a computer keyboard, mouse and
other computer components
 Sitting for extended periods of time
 Vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability
to adjust focus

Requirements

• Technical degree (bachelor's or higher in an engineering, mathematics, or scientific discipline)
• 7+ years focused on backend engineering (software, data, ML, or similar)
• 5+ years managing technical managers
• Strong understanding of software architecture fundamentals (distributed systems, consistency, scaling, databases, queueing, streaming semantics, authn/authz)
• Track record of building high-performing software engineering teams

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience managing teams using functional programming languages
• Deep technical familiarity with any or all of: AWS, Kafka, Postgres, OpenTelemetry, F#

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality backend services and tools, utilizing a contract-first development approach
• Develop tooling, policy, and process to establish standards around developer workflow, design, and validation
• Drive reliability with resilient architecture, observability-first design, and investment in safe-by-default continuous deployments
• Establish a coherent internal tool/API ecosystem to enable client integrations, application development, and AI automation teams
• Work closely with application/system owners and our Data Engineering team to maintain canonical definitions across our API and event ecosystem
• Invest in developer experience to create a high-velocity environment with compounding workflow benefits
• Shape teams and architecture together to create low-handoff, highly parallelizable workflows, while guarding against siloing
• Increase engineering talent depth through hiring and coaching
• Implement a streamlined, selective hiring process to match rapid growth needs
• Establish engineering teams in new geographies as needed, without compromising on hiring standards
• Lead with empathy and foster a growth mindset
• Drive technical strategy for software integrations
• Partner with engineering and application teams to shape the roadmap for the connective tissue of our technology ecosystem
• Craft department structure by intentionally designing teams, roles, and technical architecture to enable a highly autonomous operating model with clear ownership
• Work with leadership peers across the organization to influence cross-team architecture & company-level process
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Quarterly Incentive Plan
• 136 hours of Paid Time Off which equals 17 days for the year, that can be used for Sick Time or for Personal Use
• Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement for education related to your job
• Employee Referral Bonuses
• Employee Recognition and Rewards Program
• Paid Volunteer Time to support a cause that is close to your heart and contributes to our communities
• Employee Discounts
• Wellness Incentives that can go up to $100 per year for completing challenges, in addition to a discount on contribution rates

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees