Vice President Engineering

Crane Worldwide Logistics

7d

About The Position

Essential Job Functions

Lead our core engineering groups:
Client Integrations - establish industry-leading onboarding time and
reliability, to enable rapid business expansion
Application Engineering - elevate our client portal from a visibility tool
to a system of action for clients
Data Engineering - expand our real-time data footprint to power critical
use cases for all other teams
Software Integrations - develop a stable tools ecosystem to feed
integration, application development, and AI use cases while increasing the
scalability of system-to-system services
Platform teams for Data, Integrations, and Software - deliver a developer
experience that enables safe, high-velocity development and minimizes
onboarded-to-productive time
Team structure, people, and recruiting:
Develop high-performing engineering groups through coaching and hiring
Intentionally design and evolve teams to stay aligned with core objectives
and keep clear lines of ownership
Maintain a culture that values technical excellence, speed, and
collaboration over ego
Execution:
Develop and operate policies to drive velocity and quality
Establish and maintain healthy coordination patterns within and beyond the
core engineering departments
Leverage platform functions and team/process design to build an excellent
developer experience for all specializations
Ensure that all engineering teams achieve our operating standards for
design, validation, reliability, security, and incident management.
Strategy:
Partner with peers and Technology leadership to define the engineering
roadmap
Evolve our architecture and tech selections to ensure key capabilities are
addressed
Apply a strong working understanding of key business processes and systems
of record to give context-aware guidance to your team and to peers

Physical Requirements

Talking, hearing and using hands to operate computer equipment
Vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to
adjust focus 
Job may require extended sitting or standing, use of standard office
equipment 

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience leading engineering teams
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred. Equivalent combination of education and relevant experience will also be considered.
• Prior roles managing 20+ engineers
• Recent experience managing software development teams
• Hands-on comfort with modern software engineering workflows: you won't be an individual contributor, but need to maintain your intuition & mechanical sympathy to guide a strong developer experience and make informed architecture decisions
• Deep knowledge of foundational engineering concepts is a given (e.g. distributed systems fundamentals, design tradeoffs, scaling patterns)

Nice To Haves

• experience managing platform, data, and integrations teams

Responsibilities

• Lead core engineering groups
• Establish industry-leading onboarding time and reliability
• Enable rapid business expansion
• Elevate client portal from a visibility tool to a system of action for clients
• Expand real-time data footprint to power critical use cases for all other teams
• Develop a stable tools ecosystem to feed integration, application development, and AI use cases while increasing the scalability of system-to-system services
• Deliver a developer experience that enables safe, high-velocity development and minimizes onboarded-to-productive time
• Develop high-performing engineering groups through coaching and hiring
• Intentionally design and evolve teams to stay aligned with core objectives and keep clear lines of ownership
• Maintain a culture that values technical excellence, speed, and collaboration over ego
• Develop and operate policies to drive velocity and quality
• Establish and maintain healthy coordination patterns within and beyond the core engineering departments
• Leverage platform functions and team/process design to build an excellent developer experience for all specializations
• Ensure that all engineering teams achieve our operating standards for design, validation, reliability, security, and incident management.
• Partner with peers and Technology leadership to define the engineering roadmap
• Evolve architecture and tech selections to ensure key capabilities are addressed
• Apply a strong working understanding of key business processes and systems of record to give context-aware guidance to your team and to peers

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: Executive
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees