About us

What if your work could drive change in a globally established industry, shaping processes that touch every corner of the world? At Forto, we are at the forefront of change, harnessing the power of AI to revolutionise logistics. We want to reinvent digital supply chains to be transparent, frictionless and sustainable. From day one, our mission has been to simplify global trade – creating a seamless and efficient logistics process.

About the role

As Engineering Manager you’ll manage a three-person platform engineering team focused on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). This team is dedicated to enhancing both reliability and the developer experience at Forto. By providing best-in-class tooling and infrastructure, your team will enable our engineering teams to build complex business logic. Our production environment is built on a modern stack, including GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Helm, complemented by internal self-service tools primarily written in Typescript and Go. The core philosophy we champion is "You build it, you run it,” and your work will be instrumental in improving the daily lives of our engineers, empowering them to fully own the software they create, from development to production and beyond.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a highly skilled team of platform engineers

• Help develop a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables, adjusting well-defined processes to changing business requirements and ensuring roadmap delivery

• Establish high technical standards through processes and culture

• Mentor and coach engineers to help them create a fulfilling career and build individual solid contributors and leaders

• Work across functions within engineering and product to drive developer experience and site reliability topics

• Improve team autonomy by enabling & empowering Forto engineers to own security, reliability, and observability as non-functional requirements of their products

• Ensure roadmap delivery, align the team on the implementation path of product strategy, and balance the needs of building, maintaining, refactoring, scaling, and extending features to support the technology’s life properly

• Design, plan and ensure delivery of software and infrastructure to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Forto’s services

Required Skills and Experience

• Increasing seniority in deeply technical Engineering roles, with at least 4 years in a people leadership/managerial role. Existing expertise in Platform Engineering is required

• Ability to attract, hire, and coach world-class engineers. You can up-level existing teams by hiring top-notch senior talent, growing leaders, and helping struggling members. You can gain the trust of the team and guide their careers

• You navigate and lead a team through challenging situations

• You enjoy building an agile and blameless culture plus an organization from scratch.

• You like to iterate on problems instead of making and syncing big plans upfront.

• You know how to drive a cross-functional change

• You have a solid understanding of cloud and platform technologies

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Hands-on knowledge of: GCP (preferred) or AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform

Don’t fit all of our criteria? That’s okay! We know that you might be hesitant to apply if you don’t meet all our requirements, but here at Forto, we pride ourselves on embracing diverse perspectives and celebrating potential. If you are passionate about this position and the Forto values, please apply anyway. There could be a place for you in this role – or another one that’s a perfect fit!

Why work with us?

Our team is hard-working, constantly seeking to maximise the impact of their work, but we put our people first, always winning with care. We value efficient systems and swift, direct communication. We want everyone to have their time to speak, so that we can embrace diverse perspectives to help drive towards solutions always.