Company Description
Floship is a Hong Kong based technology startup in the eCommerce logistics space. We provide total logistics solutions to brand owners and online retailers worldwide. This includes storage, order fulfillment, and last mile delivery. At our core, we make great ecommerce logistics software.
Job Description
We are looking for a Head of Engineering who has the experience and the insight to help scale our business to new heights in our current stage of hyper growth. Previous experience in scaling technology companies is a must. Soft skills are a strong requirement. The right person should be intimately familiar with popular startup and technology philosophies.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with senior management executives to develop a technical strategy for the company
- Aid in recruitment and retention of staff
- Manage a remote team and be responsible for building a localized tech team
- Keeps an eye out for new technological developments that can help the company improve efficiency and customer satisfaction
- Works in the Floship HQ Office in Hong Kong
- Occasionally interface with clients to come up with technical strategies for development
Skills and Values:
- Ability to understand user stories and tell those stories back to engineers
- Hypothesis driven entrepreneurship (build measure learn) to arrive at real solutions
- Build great products
- Analytical problem solver who tries to uncover root causes
- Python is a must, Django preferred
- Still very close to the coding or capable of doing so
- Familiar with Agile SDLC
- Experience in building technology and software as the product as not as a supporting system
- Coaching and mentoring developers to get the most value from their work
- Experience managing remote and distributed developer teams
Our core values:
- Users come first
- Build better product, not just different
- Do less but get more done
- Always be learning
REQUIREMENTS
- Excellent problem solving and story telling skills
- A love of software craftsmanship
- A strong desire of self improvement through side projects and sharing
- Good taste as a maker
- Built projects you are proud of
- Strong sense on the best tools for any task
- Led web product development from inception to million of users
- Strong understandings of computer science fundamentals
- Experience with modern JS libraries and tooling
- Mastery of Javascript
- Proficiency of WebAssembly
- A keen eye for interaction design details