Senior Software Engineering Manager

Senior Software Engineering Manager

AutoStore™ holds a simple yet powerful vision: to store and move things for everyone, everywhere. Founded in Norway, we've grown into a global technology company. AutoStore uses advanced software to automate and orchestrate order fulfillment. Our goal is to ensure orders arrive faster than ever, with minimal environmental impact. That's how we help brands exceed customer expectations.

We have more than 1600 systems in nearly 60 countries, and we grow continuously as a community of employees, partners, customers, suppliers, and connected technologies. Automation should make life easier, and by listening carefully to our community, we innovate to meet the industry's most complex needs. With AutoStore™, brands gain speed, efficiency, and improved workplaces. And much more floor space.

AutoStore – moving things forward.

The Role:

AutoStore is hiring for a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead the software delivery execution, team leadership, engineering process maturity, and cross-functional alignment for the platform of a newly established team.

Here, your team will build, maintain, and grow a supervisory control platform, and run end-to-end connectivity of our on-premise systems to our cloud services. You'll be responsible for engineering culture, prioritization, execution, and cross-functional collaboration.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and develop software engineers and team leads; build a high-performing team culture with clear ownership, accountability, and growth plans.
• Own delivery planning, prioritization, execution tracking, and risk management across platform initiatives, ensuring commitments are realistic, visible, and delivered with quality.
• Establish and improve planning, estimation, sprint execution, release readiness, quality gates, and operational review processes.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Controls, QA, DevOps, and customer-facing teams to align roadmap priorities, dependencies, integration plans, and delivery milestones.
• Drive disciplined execution across requirements clarity, technical readiness, test coverage, release planning, defect management, and production readiness.
• Oversee software design, development, and execution for the AutoStore platform, ensuring scalable architecture, clear engineering ownership, and alignment with product and customer deployment needs.
• Lead execution for secure, reliable, and observable connectivity between on-premise warehouse systems and cloud-based platform services, including integration, deployment, and operational readiness considerations.
• Work closely with architects and senior engineers to ensure technical direction, design decisions, and engineering standards are understood, planned, and executed effectively by the teams.

Key Qualifications:

• At least 10+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in a software development management or engineering leadership role.
• Proven experience managing software teams responsible for complex platform, middleware, distributed systems, or operational software delivery.
• Strong track record in execution management, delivery planning, dependency management, engineering process improvement, and stakeholder communication.
• Experience leading teams that deliver APIs, integration contracts, backend services, or platform capabilities across independently owned systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms and hybrid architecture, including secure connectivity between on-premise systems and cloud services, is required.
• Ability to balance technical depth, people leadership, execution discipline, and business priorities in a fast-paced engineering environment.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Warehouse automation / robotics / intralogistics background (WES/WMS/WCS, AutoStore, ASRS, or comparable).
• Experience managing teams working across independently owned software and control-system components.
• Track record improving team execution, engineering processes, delivery predictability, and release quality at scale.
• Warehouse logistics, automation, or intralogistics domain experience (ideally with 2–3 years of relevant exposure).

Competencies

• Strong technical understanding of distributed systems, control-platform architecture, APIs, messaging, data contracts, fault tolerance, and performance-sensitive software design.
• Experience leading teams using modern programming languages, platforms, and engineering practices relevant to control systems, orchestration layers, middleware, or large-scale backend services.
• Hands-on understanding of cloud platforms, hybrid connectivity patterns, CI/CD, observability, DevOps, testing automation, and release management practices relevant to platform delivery and operations.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills. Comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Strategic thinking with a bias toward action and results.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Skilled in balancing people leadership, technical depth, execution discipline, and big-picture thinking to guide teams through delivery trade-offs and scaling challenges.
• Experience representing engineering in planning, quarterly business reviews, strategy sessions, and delivery governance forums.

We Offer:

AutoStore believes in taking care of employees and is dedicated to providing a supportive and rewarding work environment. Join us in our mission to store and move things for everyone, everywhere.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off including 12 holidays, paid exercise time, paid volunteer time, and paid parental leave plans for all new parents
• Retirement 401(k) plan with employer match and discretionary profit sharing contribution
• Educational assistance and professional development programs, including mentorship/coaching programs with external industry leaders
• Additional benefits include Group Life Insurance, Voluntary Additional Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, Employee Assistance programs, and more!

AutoStore is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions, and lactation), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.

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