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Senior Engineering Manager, Enterprise Fulfillment

Leads the Enterprise Fulfillment engineering team responsible for scalable, reliable grocery-picking systems serving retailers and shoppers. Requires 10+ years of software engineering experience, 5+ years managing engineering teams, and strong technical strategy and people leadership.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Define, communicate, and execute the technical vision and strategy for the Enterprise Fulfillment team.
  • Own the engineering roadmap and oversee technical and product decisions that deliver business outcomes while maintaining reliability and scale.
  • Establish production-service best practices and enterprise-grade engineering standards.
  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of 10+ engineers building grocery-picking experiences for retailers and shoppers.
  • Drive recruiting and hiring while partnering across R&D, business development, and retailer stakeholder teams.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • 5+ years of engineering management experience, including leadership of teams of 15+ engineers.
  • Track record delivering complex consumer-facing or enterprise-facing products.
  • Experience creating strategic engineering roadmaps and translating product strategy into technical direction.
  • Senior- or staff-equivalent individual contributor background or close oversight of that work.
  • Strong experience staffing, mentoring, developing, and performance-managing engineering teams.
  • Experience collaborating with product managers, engineering leaders, and senior individual contributors.
  • Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.

Nice to Have

  • Experience leading multiple teams or managing engineering managers.
  • Experience scaling a team from its early stages to 10+ engineers.
  • Experience managing teams responsible for mission-critical, highly available business systems.
  • Experience building and maintaining enterprise-grade software systems at scale.
  • Technical familiarity with Ruby on Rails, Go, Swift, or Kotlin.

Compensation

  • Base pay range: $221,000–$279,500 USD, depending on permanent work location.
  • Eligible for a new-hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
  • Benefits are provided according to employee location.

Skills

Ruby on Rails, Go, Swift, Kotlin, Engineering Roadmaps, Production Services, High Availability, Enterprise Software, Performance Management, Technical Strategy

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