Manager Software Engineering
Sprouts Farmers Market•Phoenix, AZ
•Hybrid
About The Position
Leads the day-to-day delivery and operations of an engineering team responsible for a defined product, service, or platform domain. Establishes short-term team goals, delivery priorities, and operating plans; coaches team members; and partners with Principal and senior technical leaders to coordinate architecture, engineering practices, and delivery across disciplines. The role reports to our Store Support Office in Phoenix, AZ, with a hybrid work arrangement requiring in-office presence Tuesday through Thursday.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including hands-on experience prior to moving into people leadership.
- People-leadership experience managing and coaching software engineering professionals.
- Track record owning a service, product, platform, or engineering domain end to end.
- Production proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, or TypeScript.
- Knowledge of cloud-native engineering, Kubernetes, containers, and CI/CD practices.
- Ability to review code and architecture and resolve difficult issues involving related systems or job areas.
- Experience with work prioritization, delivery planning, sprint execution, coaching, and process execution.
- Experience with hiring, performance management, promotion, and reward recommendations in accordance with company guidelines.
Nice To Haves
- Prior individual-contributor experience at the Senior or Staff Software Engineer level.
- Experience working across software, data, quality, ML/AI, and site reliability disciplines.
- Working knowledge of agentic AI or large language model service architecture.
- Retail or merchandising technology experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, delivery, operation, and continuous improvement of a defined engineering product, service, or platform domain.
- Establish short-term team goals, delivery priorities, sprint plans, and accountability for operational results.
- Lead, direct, and review the work of software engineering professionals to accomplish defined departmental objectives.
- Coach direct reports and partner with Principal and senior technical leaders on architecture, engineering standards, and cross-discipline delivery.
- Review code and architecture as needed to assess tradeoffs and unblock decisions within the assigned domain.
- Improve engineering processes, systems, and team practices within the assigned job area.
- Explain technical and delivery decisions and gain cooperation from Product, Design, Data, and other partner teams.
- Hire, onboard, develop, and manage performance in accordance with company guidelines.
- Lead incident response and corrective actions for the assigned team and domain.
- Identify emerging leadership or capacity needs and recommend changes to team structure as the organization grows.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Sick time plan that you can use to support you or your immediate families health
- Vacation accrual plan
- Opportunities for career growth
- 15% discount for you and one other family member in your household on all purchases made at Sprouts
- Flexible schedules
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 401(K) Retirement savings plan with a generous company match
- Company paid life insurance
- Contests and appreciation events throughout the year full of prizes, food and fun!
- Bonus based on company and/or individual performance
- Affordable benefit coverage, including medical, dental and vision
- Health Savings Account with company match
- Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
- Company paid short-term disability coverage
- Paid parental leave for both mothers and fathers
- Paid holidays
- DailyPay - access earned wages on demand
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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