Software Engineering Manager

Foot Locker, Inc. is seeking a hands-on engineering leader with deep technical expertise to drive innovation in their Launch product team. In this role, you'll lead and mentor a dedicated group of engineers while actively contributing to the codebase and ensuring the delivery of world-class launch experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Lead development efforts in building a robust launch reservation platform to support raffle entries, sneaker drops, and high-velocity sales at massive scale
• Collaborate with product, operations, and design to refine concepts, estimate work, and prioritize features
• Work with multiple teams to solve business problems while continuing to automate the development and release processes
• Work across other technical teams to outline future system requirements, handle incident response and communication to ensure we meet business and engineering goals
• Lead capacity planning, load testing, and performance optimization strategies for launch events
• Ensure timely incident response and resolution for production issues, including leading triage efforts, and driving root cause analysis and preventative actions
• Provide availability and leadership support during critical Launch reservation events, ensuring system readiness, monitoring performance, and coordinating rapid response to any issues impacting the customer experience
• Ensure clear communication of team progress, risks, and outcomes to leadership and stakeholders
• Support resource planning and capacity management to align team output with business demand
• Manage and develop team members via code reviews, mentoring, and technical design sessions
• Champion engineering best practices including test-driven development, code quality, and shift-left testing to deliver reliable software capabilities
• Stay current with industry trends in high-scale systems, serverless architecture, and bot mitigation to identify opportunities for platform improvements
• Maintain robust testing suites and deployment processes
• Continuously improve engineering tools, workflows, and developer experience

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, MIS, Engineering or related field and 5 years of related work experience
• At least 2-3 years in an engineering team leadership/management role overseeing 5-10+ individuals, including direct reports
• Proven ability to deliver complex, customer-facing digital products or platforms across a multitude of delivery channels (i.e. web, mobile, mobile app, brick-and-mortar)
• Experience developing and maintaining critical real-time serving systems in an environment where priorities are frequently shifting
• Proven ability to use monitoring tools to proactively identify and resolve issues
• Experience leading and growing people both technically and professionally
• Great product sense combined with strong technical communication skills
• Worked in a high-scale environment supporting core transactional flows of a major ecommerce establishment
• Experience in Java, J2EE, Spring, Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience with serverless technologies such as Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, or similar
• Familiarity with load testing, capacity planning, and performance optimization for high-traffic systems
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience with customer platforms, loyalty systems, and digital commerce ecosystems