Software Engineer Manager, Supply Chain Sourcing

Role Description

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead high-performing engineering teams responsible for building and supporting scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native solutions for mission-critical Supply Chain and Retail platforms. You will drive modern engineering practices while partnering with Product, Architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver innovative, high-impact technology solutions. Additionally, you will mentor engineering talent, guide technical strategy, and manage key vendor partnerships that support product and platform success.

Key Responsibilities

• 30% Delivery & Execution:
  • Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions.
  • 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 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.
• 10% Support & Enablement:
  • Fields questions from 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.
• 50% People:
  • Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers.
  • 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.
  • Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams.
  • 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.

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).

Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including experience leading engineering teams and large-scale technology initiatives.
• Proven experience leading high-performing engineering organizations delivering cloud-native, highly scalable, secure, and resilient software solutions.
• Strong expertise designing, developing, and operating Java-based applications, microservices, and REST APIs supporting high-volume, mission-critical systems.
• Experience leading engineering teams responsible for Order Processing, Commerce, Supply Chain, Store Systems, or Selling platforms.
• Demonstrated success driving AI-enabled software development practices, engineering automation, and engineering productivity initiatives.
• Experience implementing Machine Learning-enabled business capabilities within enterprise-scale applications.
• Strong understanding of Spec-Driven Development, modern software engineering methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and Agile delivery frameworks.
• Expertise with cloud-native architectures, containerization technologies, and public cloud platforms.
• Advanced proficiency with relational databases, SQL, performance tuning, and data-driven engineering operations.
• Strong troubleshooting, system monitoring, observability, and incident management expertise.
• Proven ability to quickly understand complex business domains, distributed architectures, and enterprise technology ecosystems.
• Experience mentoring, coaching, and developing engineers and engineering leaders while fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Experience translating enterprise technology strategy into actionable engineering roadmaps and successful execution plans.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage team capacity, prioritize investments, and balance workloads across multiple initiatives.
• Experience partnering with Product Management and Architecture teams to define technical vision, solution strategy, and long-term platform evolution.
• Experience managing strategic vendor relationships and evaluating third-party technologies to support engineering and business objectives.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence cross-functional leaders and drive alignment across technical and business teams.

Benefits

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position with frequent opportunities to move about.
• Located in a comfortable indoor area with infrequent and non-objectionable unpleasant conditions.

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.

Pay Range

The pay range for this position is between $140,000.00 - $240,000.00.