Manager, Software Engineering

This role is for a person who thrives at building and operating a high performing software engineering team and is passionate about empowering engineers to achieve the best work of their careers. Well respected by technical and non-technical individuals, this person is an influential leader, coach, manager, and engineer. This leader will need to balance: driving our aggressive product roadmap, improving the performance and stability of our system, introducing engineering best practices into the organization, and leading/mentoring other engineers.

What You'll Do:
Work closely with our engineering leaders to:

Build an open, positive and energized culture

Build, lead and hire a high-caliber team of software engineers

Drive our technical roadmap and direction of our stack

Lead and inspire your team and other engineers to build the best ecommerce products on the planet

Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement

Ensure that technical decisions support our goals of quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability and security

Management responsibilities:

Be both a highly technical hands-on coder and an effective people manager

Hold your own in technical discussion, be a subject matter expert and have strategic influence

Collaborate with product managers, engineers and stakeholders in all corporate offices to promote communication and coordination

Establish team objectives in alignment with business goals

Organize and facilitate regular 1:1’s with your team for coaching and mentoring

Execution of performance improvement plans for under-performers

Continued enforcement of best practices to improve engineering quality and efficiency

Establish a sense of urgency and direction; set expectations

Create and participate in an on-call rotation for incident management

Who You Are:
5+ years experience in building systems in PHP, Go, Python, Typescript, Angular, Ruby, etc.

Think iteratively by breaking down problems into smaller, deliverable / deployable pieces.

Quality is the top priority.

Knowledge of gRPC, RabbitMQ, and familiarity with caching solutions

2+ years managing engineering teams, including demonstrated track record of growing senior talent and building team structure from the ground up

Experience with Google Cloud Platform or Cloud Computing desirable

Experience with relational database systems and external services integrations

Experience with backend and frontend (UI) development

Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and leading sprint ceremonies.

Experience with SaaS platforms or Cloud Computing highly desirable

Solid UNIX / LAMP knowledge (ideally 2+ years working experience with PHP, MySQL, and Linux)

Prior experience at a commerce software company is a plus

Have an excellent ability to communicate and to coordinate

Will speak up when something just doesn’t feel right with productive feedback

Have excellent problem solving, critical thinking and debugging skills

Has strong bias to action and the drive to make a difference

BS degree required or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical field

(Pay Transparency Range: $164,800 - $247,200)

Compensation Transparency

The national base salary range for this role is posted above in this job post.

Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as relevant experience, skills, qualifications and geographic location. We also consider internal equity to help ensure fair and consistent pay practices across our teams.

Where applicable, this role may also be eligible for variable compensation (such as bonus or commission), equity, and benefits in accordance with local policies. Details will be shared during the hiring process. We are committed to equitable and transparent pay practices that align to market data, internal equity, and individual contribution.