Position Purpose:
As a Software Engineer Manager, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of innovative products while supporting the growth of the next generation of engineering talent. In this role, you will be responsible for driving strategic technology decisions, building scalable and resilient systems, and delivering solutions that align with organizational objectives, including retail and promotional pricing as well as pricing optimization initiatives.
In addition, you will collaborate with strategic vendors to ensure that third-party tools and applications are accessible and effectively leveraged by product teams. You will also play a key role in guiding the adoption of AI/ML-driven solutions to enable data-driven decision-making and enhance automation across the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
40% Delivery & Execution:
Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
Drives strategic technical decisions and influences architecture to build highly scalable, performant, and resilient systems
Designs and implements solutions incorporating AI/ML capabilities to improve automation, forecasting, and business outcomes
Builds and enhances systems supporting retail pricing, promotions, and optimization, ensuring accuracy, scalability, and performance
Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases
Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms
Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment
Evaluates new technologies, including AI/ML platforms and tools, for adoption across the enterprise
Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office
20% Support & Enablement:
Fields questions from business, engineers, product teams, or support teams
Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
Provides application support for software running in production
Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team, especially for complex system and pricing-related issues
30% People:
Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers
Actively develops team capabilities in modern engineering practices, AI/ML adoption, and system design
Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team
Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback
Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests
Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices and data-driven decision-making
Guides team members in strategic thinking, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams
Builds a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and engineering excellence focused on scalable systems
Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
10% Learning:
Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems
Stays current with advancements in AI/ML, retail pricing technologies, and large-scale distributed systems
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
Reports to the Software Engineer Sr. Manager
Travel Requirements:
Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
Physical Requirements:
Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions:
Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:
Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
Preferred Qualifications:
7-9 years of relevant work experience
Mastery of a modern programming language (preferably java & Python)
Experience productionizing statistical models, AI/ML systems, and Generative AI solutions at enterprise scale
Experience working with or integrating AI/ML models and data-driven systems
Experience with retail pricing systems, promotions, or price optimization platforms
Mastery of a modern web application framework such as Ruby on Rails, Spring MVC, and Node.js
Mastery of writing SQL queries against a relational database and No SQL databases
Experience championing AI agents to improve developer productivity, accelerate delivery, and enhance team effectiveness.
Experience managing large-scale solution delivery in highly matrixed and cross-functional environments.
Mastery of modern product development processes and pipelines
Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
Proficient in effective system monitoring and log analysis techniques
Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
Experience in guiding more junior team members through Software Engineering fundamentals in a professional setting
Experience managing and growing team members in a professional setting
Experience balancing workloads across teams
Experience managing vendor relationships
Experience with translating high level strategy to tactical execution
Experience building and scaling distributed, high-availability systems
Minimum Education:
The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Preferred Education:
No additional education
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
7
Preferred Years of Work Experience:
No additional years of experience
Competencies:
Attracts Top Talent: Attracting and selecting the best talent to meet current and future business needs
Balances Stakeholders: Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders
Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals
Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business, retail pricing, and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals
Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals
Drives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives
Drives Vision and Purpose: Painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action
Manages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
Organizational Savvy: Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics
Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. - $140,000.00 - $240,000.00
