Senior Engineering Manager, DC Buying

Role overview Lead engineering for a product that helps grocery distribution center buyers decide what to order, in what quantities, and when. You will own outcomes across the product’s engineering lifecycle, partner with product, design, data engineering, and applied science on a shared roadmap, and work with customers to make the tool reliable and useful in day-to-day buying operations.

Responsibilities - Hire, coach, and retain a senior product engineering team, setting expectations and addressing performance in a timely way. - Set technical direction by reviewing architecture, avoiding unnecessary complexity, and making deliberate choices about technical debt. - Own the product roadmap with partner teams, balancing customer needs, technical investments, and business goals. - Turn broad objectives into sequenced plans with clear scope, cost, and timing; make realistic commitments and communicate changes early. - Keep leaders and partner teams informed, surface decisions that need resolution, and coordinate shared tools and capabilities with other engineering groups. - Own production reliability, on-call health, and data quality for a product used regularly by buyers. - Build a culture in which engineers and scientists engage early with customers and partners and take responsibility for solving user problems.

Requirements - At least 8 years in software engineering, including 3 or more years managing engineering teams. - Experience developing, scaling, and supporting production products where reliability matters. - Technical range across multiple areas such as frontend, backend, data pipelines, and applied science, with the ability to engage across disciplines. - Experience hiring, developing, and managing performance while building a team that takes ownership of problems. - Clear communication with customers, executives, and internal partners. - Comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities, with the ability to replan while keeping teams aligned. - Regular use of AI-enabled development practices and interest in advancing their use within a team.

Benefits and work setup - Many employees can work remotely from a specified set of US states; the role’s eligibility depends on residence. - Benefits for eligible full-time US employees include medical, dental, and vision coverage, mental health support, equity, retirement matching, a home office stipend, coworking funds, professional development funds, monthly wellness and telecommunications stipends, and flexible paid time off.