Lead Product Engineer

Role & responsibilities

ROLE SUMMARY

Own end-to-end product developmentfrom requirements and UX collaboration to architecture, implementation, testing, release and cloud operations. Balance strong engineering leadership with practical freight-forwarding domain fluency to ship secure, scalable features.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Product & discovery

- Partner with Sales/Ops/Docs/Finance (Cross functional teams) to translate goals into PRDs, user stories and acceptance criteria; maintain a prioritized backlog.

- Drive story mapping and outcomes; define Definition of Ready, Definition of Done and release notes.

Architecture & development

- Design service boundaries, data contracts, and APIs (REST/GraphQL)

- Build applications across front-end (Angular/React, TypeScript) and back-end (Node.js/NestJS or Laravel/PHP).

- Model relational schemas (MySQL/SQL Server) and caching (Redis); integrate queues (RabbitMQ/SQS).

Data & integrations)

- Design internal/external APIs for portals, partners, and analytics; consume TMS/PCS/carrier/customs endpoints.

- Collaborate with the TMS/ERP implementation team on config-first enablement, code only for true gaps.

Quality engineering

- Enforce automated unit tests, contract tests, linting, and static analysis.

- Own CI quality gates and disciplined code reviews; track measurable coverage targets.

DevOps & cloud

- Ship via CI/CD (GitHub/GitLab/AWS CodePipeline); use blue/green or canary deployments and feature flags.

- Provision infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation); containerize with Docker; deploy to AWS (ECS/EKS/EC2), manage RDS/S3/CloudFront/API Gateway/ALB/Secrets.

SRE & observability

- Define SLIs/SLOs; build dashboards and alerts (CloudWatch/Prom-Grafana/ELK); lead incident response and post-mortems.

- Proactively optimize cost and performance (capacity planning, query tuning, caching).

Security & compliance

- Apply OWASP/ASVS, secret management, IAM least-privilege, and secure SDLC checks.

- Support audit/retention needs; maintain audit trails and access reviews.

Agile & leadership

- Run Scrum/kanban (2-week sprints); mentor engineers; coordinate with UX, QA, Platform and Data/BI.

- Capacity-based planning; WIP limits;

Minimum qualifications

- 12 years in software engineering; 5+ years leading end-to-end product delivery.

- Strong TypeScript/JavaScript; Angular or React; Node.js/NestJS or Laravel/PHP in production.

- RDBMS design/tuning (MySQL/SQL Server), Redis, message queues (RabbitMQ/SQS).

- AWS hands-on (ECS/EKS/EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, API Gateway/ALB), Docker, Terraform/CloudFormation.

- CI/CD ownership; automated testing across levels; security-first mindset; excellent technical writing.

Nice to have

- Integrations with TMS/ERP (CargoWise, D365) and carrier/PCS/customs APIs.

- Mobile experience (React Native/Ionic); event streaming (Kafka/SNS); data modelling for BI (Power BI/Redshift).

Core stack & tools

TypeScript; Angular/React; Node.js/NestJS or Laravel/PHP; MySQL/SQL Server; Redis; RabbitMQ/SQS; Docker; AWS (ECS/EKS/EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, API Gateway/ALB); Terraform/CloudFormation; Git; GitHub Actions/GitLab CI; CloudWatch/ELK/Prom-Grafana; Jira/Confluence.

Preferred candidate profile

- Strong TypeScript/JavaScript; Angular or React; Node.js/NestJS or Laravel/PHP in production.

- RDBMS design/tuning (MySQL/SQL Server), Redis, message queues (RabbitMQ/SQS).

- AWS hands-on (ECS/EKS/EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, API Gateway/ALB), Docker, Terraform/CloudFormation.

- CI/CD ownership; automated testing across levels; security-first mindset; excellent technical writing.