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 and partners.
At a large company, EMs are disconnected from the product. Here, you'll be technical, close to partners like Shopify and Amazon, and see your team's integrations process thousands of orders per minute.
Integration Platform owns all external connections: Shopify, Amazon, marketplaces, 3PLs, carriers, EDI. We process thousands of orders per minute. North star: integrations are reliable, scalable, debuggable, and fast to build.
Monday: Sprint planning. A major merchant wants to expand to a new marketplace. Plan the integration, assign work.
Tuesday: 1:1s. One engineer shipped a Shopify upgrade handling 3000 orders/minute — recognize. Another wants to lead the framework project — discuss scope.
Wednesday: Partner call with Amazon. Discuss upcoming API changes, plan migration.
Thursday: Interview a strong distributed systems candidate. Debrief. Extend an offer.
Friday: Roadmap review with Product Lead. Balance: new integrations vs. framework investments vs. reliability.
Team: 4-6 engineers — hiring, mentoring, performance
Delivery: Backlog prioritization, sprint execution
Reliability: SLAs, monitoring, operational excellence
Roadmap: Technical direction with Product Lead
Partnerships: Technical relationship with Shopify, Amazon, carriers
7+ years building software
2+ years managing engineers
Experience with integration platforms or API-heavy systems
Technical depth in distributed systems, async processing
You've balanced speed with reliability
Strong communication with engineers, partners, merchants
Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, RabbitMQ, SQLAlchemy, Kubernetes, pytest, Claude Code, etc.
Initial interview — Leadership experience, integration systems
Technical round — Distributed systems, API design
Interview loop — Leadership scenarios, bar raiser
Bootcamp — 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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