Fulfil is a technical founder-led, bootstrapped company in our 11th year of operations. We're a small team of exceptional engineers powering millions of orders for brands like HexClad, Ridge Wallet, and Caraway. No bureaucracy. No endless meetings. You'll lead a team that ships fast and talks directly to merchants.
At a large company, EMs are people managers disconnected from the product. Here, you'll be technical, close to customers, and see your team's work impact merchants processing millions of orders.
Commerce Core owns order management, inventory, purchasing, fulfillment, and warehouse management. The north star: orders flow without human intervention.
Monday: Sprint planning. A major merchant is launching a new product line. Prioritize accordingly.
Tuesday: 1:1s. One engineer just shipped a feature processing 50K orders/day — recognize the win. Another wants to lead the allocation project — plan the handoff.
Wednesday: Call with a merchant's COO. They're growing 3x and need Fulfil to scale with them. Feed insights to the team.
Thursday: Interview a strong candidate. Debrief. Extend an offer.
Friday: Roadmap review with Product Lead. Plan Q2 — inventory forecasting, automated reordering, capacity planning.
Team: 4-6 engineers — hiring, mentoring, performance
Delivery: Backlog prioritization, sprint execution
Quality: Testing standards, code review, operational excellence
Roadmap: Technical direction with Product Lead
Merchant relationships: Understand how they use Commerce Core
7+ years building software
2+ years managing engineers (not just tech leading)
Technical depth — you can review code and discuss architecture
You've built teams: hired, grown, retained engineers
You make decisions and own outcomes
You shield your team from noise
Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, RabbitMQ, SQLAlchemy, Kubernetes, pytest, Claude Code, etc.
Initial interview — How you've built teams
Technical round — You still need to go deep
Interview loop — Leadership scenarios, bar raiser
Bootcamp — Yes, managers also start in Product Support to learn how merchants use Fulfil
What We Do
Leverage LLMs (OpenAI API, Claude API) to embed AI-driven capabilities into Fulfil’s ERP, powering natural language interfaces, intelligent automation, and merchant-facing insights (e.g., Fulfil x MCP integrations with Claude).
Focus on AI for commerce operations — integrating models to solve real problems like order management, financial analysis, customer insights, and logistics optimisation.
What We Don’t
We are not a core ML/AI research company — we don’t train or fine-tune foundation models.
We focus on integration and productisation of AI, not building new ML frameworks or developing custom model architectures.
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