application development manager, ST- Nashville, TN
Starbucks Coffee Company•Nashville, TN
•Hybrid
About The Position
As a Manager, Application Development, you’ll manage the planning and execution of an application development team—guiding delivery and operations for new and existing applications and platforms. You’ll lead the evolution of technology strategy and roadmaps, grow engineering talent, and ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and supportable in production.
Requirements
- 8–10 years of professional industry experience in software development and operations
- 5 years managing systems or application development projects (all sizes/complexities, including large systems)
- 3–5 years leading or managing small technical teams
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
Nice To Haves
- Proven ability to hire, coach, and develop engineers, building a high-trust team culture with clear accountability and strong delivery outcomes.
- Strong technical leadership and platform stewardship—influencing architecture/design decisions, managing technical debt, and ensuring solutions are secure, compliant, and supportable through governance.
- Demonstrated operational excellence—driving production stability via KPIs/metrics, incident leadership, reliable release practices, and strong documentation/support processes.
Responsibilities
- Lead delivery and team performance by setting goals, staffing and prioritizing work, managing budgets/resources, and organizing the team through Agile and/or waterfall delivery.
- Drive technical excellence by guiding solution design and development, establishing design patterns and coding standards, and building a strong culture of automated testing and continuous integration.
- Champion platform stewardship and operational stability by prioritizing platform investments and technical debt, partnering across Infrastructure/Security/Architecture/QA, managing vendor relationships, and leading high-severity production incidents using KPIs and operational metrics.
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits.
- short-term and long-term disability
- paid parental leave
- family expansion reimbursement
- paid vacation from date of hire
- sick time (accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked)
- eight paid holidays
- two personal days per year
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- discounted company stock program (S.I.P.)
- Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock)
- incentivized emergency savings
- financial well-being tools
- 100% upfront tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor’s degree through Arizona State University’s online program via the Starbucks College Achievement Plan
- student loan management resources
- access to other educational opportunities
- backup care
- DACA reimbursement
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
