ABOUT THE COMPANY
Global-e (Nasdaq: GLBE) is the world’s leading platform to enable and accelerate global, direct-to-consumer cross-border e-commerce growth. The chosen partner of hundreds of retailers and brands across the United States, Europe and Asia, Global-e makes selling internationally as simple as selling domestically. With Global-e, retailers and brands can increase international traffic conversion and grow sales by offering customers in over 200 destinations worldwide a seamless localized shopping experience. Our end-to-end e-commerce solutions combine best-in-class localization capabilities, big-data best-practice business intelligence models, streamlined international logistics and vast cross-border experience, enabling online retailers to sell to and from anywhere in the world and seamlessly expand their brand worldwide. Our people play the key role in our success, and we are always looking for more driven, talented and ambitious individuals to join our growing international family.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Global-e is transforming the way merchants ship worldwide by offering a seamless, reliable, and scalable way to handle cross-border deliveries. As a Tech Lead, you’ll guide the technical direction of the team, ensuring we deliver high-quality, scalable solutions that power our global logistics platform. You’ll work hands-on within our API-first microservice architecture built with Scala, Kubernetes, and AWS, and driving projects from design to production. Our Logistics team integrates with major global carriers, navigates compliance challenges, and gives customers real-time visibility into their deliveries. In this role, you’ll help the team turn complex problems into simple, effective solutions with a direct impact on merchants and shoppers around the world. If you’re motivated by solving complex problems, leading technical outcomes, and building software at scale, we’d love to hear from you.
This role reports to the Engineering Manager for the team and is based out of our Dublin, Ireland office.
Responsibilities
- Deliver Features: Lead the design and development of logistics (fulfillment, labels, tracking) and order management capabilities.
- Set Direction: Define and communicate architecture that ensures scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Contribute Hands-On: Write high-quality Scala code (experience not required), review PRs, debug, and tune performance.
- Raise Standards: Drive clean code, testing, and observability practices across the team.
- Own Operations: Monitor performance, manage incidents, and address technical debt with a long-term view.
- Enable Growth: Introduce features, tools, and infrastructure to support scale and reliability.
- Collaborate: Align priorities with product and stakeholders to deliver business outcomes.
- Support: Guide the team, unblock issues, and foster a learning culture.
Requirements:
You Are
- A technical leader who makes sound tradeoffs and builds alignment.
- Hands-on and comfortable contributing directly.
- A problem solver who turns complexity into practical solutions.
- Collaborative and adaptable, thriving in shifting priorities.
Qualifications
- 4+ years building and operating large-scale, customer-facing applications; e-commerce, fintech, or SaaS a plus.
- Tech lead experience driving engineering efforts or projects.
- Strong background in distributed systems, microservices, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Familiarity with monitoring, incident response, and SLAs.
- Database expertise in optimizing and scaling complex systems.
- Solid grasp of Agile, CI/CD, and testing frameworks.
Global-e is an equal opportunity employer. Our team is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and welcome applications from people of all walks of life.
