Manager, Software Engineering

Commerce, through its Feedonomics team, is hiring a Software Engineering Manager to build and lead a high-performing engineering team. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management to drive the technical roadmap, improve system performance and stability, and foster engineering best practices.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience in building systems in PHP, Go, Python, Typescript, Angular, Ruby, etc
• 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 relational database systems and external services integrations
• Experience with backend and frontend (UI) development
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and leading sprint ceremonies
• Solid UNIX / LAMP knowledge (ideally 2+ years working experience with PHP, MySQL, and Linux)
• Think iteratively by breaking down problems into smaller, deliverable / deployable pieces
• BS degree required or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform or Cloud Computing desirable
• Experience with SaaS platforms or Cloud Computing highly desirable
• Prior experience at a commerce software company is a plus