About the Company
Global-e (Nasdaq: GLBE) is a leading platform that enables and accelerates global direct-to-consumer cross-border e-commerce. Trusted by hundreds of retailers and brands across the United States, Europe, and Asia, Global-e simplifies international selling and enhances global growth.
The platform provides retailers and brands with seamless localized shopping experiences in over 200 destinations worldwide. Its end-to-end solutions combine advanced localization capabilities, data-driven business intelligence, streamlined international logistics, and cross-border expertise.
Global-eās success relies on talented, driven, and ambitious individuals who contribute to its growing international team.
About the Role
The Tech Lead for Global-eās Logistics team guides technical direction, drives high-quality scalable solutions, and works hands-on within an API-first microservice architecture built with Scala, Kubernetes, and AWS. This role impacts merchants and shoppers worldwide by optimizing global logistics and cross-border e-commerce operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver Features: Lead the design and development of logistics (fulfillment, labels, tracking) and order management capabilities
- Set Direction: Define and communicate architecture ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability
- Contribute Hands-On: Write high-quality Scala code, review PRs, debug, and optimize performance
- Raise Standards: Drive clean code practices, testing, and observability across the team
- Own Operations: Monitor performance, manage incidents, and address technical debt with a long-term perspective
- Enable Growth: Introduce features, tools, and infrastructure to support scaling and reliability
- Collaborate: Align priorities with product teams and stakeholders to deliver business outcomes
- Support: Guide the team, unblock issues, and foster a learning culture
Requirements
- 4+ years building and operating large-scale, customer-facing applications; experience in e-commerce, fintech, or SaaS is a plus
- Proven experience as a Tech Lead driving engineering efforts or projects
- Strong background in distributed systems, microservices, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Experience with monitoring, incident response, and SLAs
- Expertise in database optimization and scaling complex systems
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies, CI/CD, and testing frameworks
- Technical leader with strong decision-making and alignment skills
- Hands-on contributor comfortable with coding and debugging
- Problem solver capable of turning complexity into practical solutions
- Collaborative, adaptable, and able to thrive in shifting priorities
Benefits
- Work on globally impactful logistics and e-commerce solutions
- Collaborate with a talented international team
- Opportunity to lead technical direction and mentor engineers
- Exposure to cutting-edge technologies, cloud platforms, and microservices architecture
- Inclusive environment embracing diversity and multiple perspectives