Manager, Engineering
About The Position
The Manager, Engineering - Catalog role is at the heart of iHerb's AI transformation. This role will lead a lean, high-seniority team of engineers while staying hands-on as a player-coach. The Manager, Engineering - Catalog will own delivery commitments, grow engineers, and model the AI-native development practices that will become the standard across the engineering organization. This role will be among the first leaders to validate and shape iHerb's AI-driven SDLC golden path. Leading the Catalog engineering team, responsible for iHerb's product catalog platform. You will drive feature delivery across a full-stack codebase, coordinate with product and design, and set the technical bar for a team of mid-to-senior full-stack engineers.
Requirements
- AI-driven SDLC (required): hands-on experience shipping production code with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor. Must be able to describe how AI changed your workflow and what guardrails you put in place.
- Full-stack orientation: comfortable contributing across layers of the stack; not specialized in only one layer.
- Delivery ownership: track record of owning commitments end-to-end, from scoping through shipping and retrospectives.
- Engineering excellence: strong opinions on code quality, testing strategy, CI/CD, and what it means to ship production-grade software at speed.
- People leadership: experience hiring, onboarding, and growing engineers; able to give direct, constructive feedback.
- Communication: clear written and verbal communicator; comfortable driving alignment across product, design, and peer engineering teams.
- Production experience with one or more backend languages used at iHerb: C#/.NET, Go, Python, or Java. .NET/C# is the primary stack today and is strongly preferred.
- React or equivalent modern frontend framework.
- Relational database experience with MS SQL Server or Postgres.
- Ability to contribute across the full stack, backend through frontend, not just one layer.
- High degree of accuracy and attention to detail
- Excellent organization skills and ability to multi-task
Nice To Haves
- Background in e-commerce, retail tech, or high-traffic consumer platforms.
- Experience working in globally distributed teams.
- Contributions to internal developer tooling, platform frameworks, or SDLC process improvements at org scale.
- Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Experience with Google Business Suite (Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms) preferred
Responsibilities
- Own sprint planning, delivery commitments, and retrospectives for the Catalog team.
- Carry an active IC load: writing, reviewing, and shipping full-stack production code weekly using AI-assisted tooling.
- Partner with the Principal Engineer, Catalog on architectural direction and the platform roadmap.
- Hire and onboard engineers; enforce a high AI-native bar in interviews.
- Drive collaboration with product managers and design without waiting for top-down coordination.
- Contribute improvements back to the shared AI-driven SDLC golden path and skills library.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- basic life insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Time Off
- Paid Sick Leave
- paid holidays
- Rest Stock Units
- annual bonuses
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
