Senior Dev Manager, Retail Growth

Ordergroove

1d•Remote

About The Position

The Retail Growth Team is at the forefront of greenfield innovation and expansion of Ordergroove’s omnichannel reach. The team is on a “startup within a startup” mission to open up subscription access to as many products and services as possible, and enable consumers to evaluate and subscribe to them in any channel or setting, whether online or in a retail location. As the leader of this mission, you will serve as the primary champion for AI-driven innovation, shaping a roadmap that reimagines how consumers and merchants interact with our subscription platform. Your top priority will be to bring the power and convenience of subscriptions into retail with a seamless and scalable rollout experience for the merchants. You will build on top of the best-in-class subscription platform that effortlessly thrives under the mission-critical surges of Black Friday and Cyber Monday traffic. In this role, you will lead and inspire a high-performing engineering squad, collaborating closely with company leadership to align efforts with our most ambitious objectives. You will also take full ownership of the team's operational health by optimizing DORA metrics to ensure elite delivery speed and technical excellence.

Requirements

4+ years of leading an engineering team of at least 3 people
8+ years of hands-on experience with full-stack development
Full-stack frameworks such as Django, or Rails, or NodeJS
Front-end frameworks such as React, or Vue, or equivalent
Multi-year experience with designing, building, and supporting complex systems
Experience with both relational and non-relational databases
Experience running an agile team process
Experience supporting customer facing products
Experience with AI product integrations and AI productivity tools
Hands-on coding ability
System design
Technical vision setting and execution
Startup mentality of taking an idea from zero to one on a compressed timeline
Strong communicator comfortable with technical and non-technical audiences
Great judgment, pragmatism, and ability to make decisions quickly
Servant leader who mentors, empowers, and learns from others

Nice To Haves

Experience with B2B SaaS
Knowledge of Python and Django Framework
MariaDB/MySQL and MongoDB
Kubernetes, Docker and Google Cloud Platform experience
Experience working for a SOC2, GDPR compliant company

Responsibilities

Innovate subscription platform capabilities and market reach
Develop the engineering vision and shape the roadmap for the Retail Growth projects
Plan and enable the AI-agent readiness of the products
Advocate for customer and developer experience
Identify areas of technical investment that can unlock product and customer experience innovation
Manage a team of 3-5 engineers (potentially growing over time into multiple teams)
Motivate and grow team’s entrepreneurial mindset
Foster a servant-leadership culture: unblock, mentor, and empower
Ensure the team’s work is high-quality, coordinated, and customer-centric
Iterate on team’s process to align with changing internal and external circumstances
Provide architectural guidance and effort sizing for team initiatives
Catalogue and prioritize reduction of technical debt
Track and improve team’s DORA metrics
Contribute and review code to stay close to the system and enhance team’s capacity
Pitch in to troubleshoot issues, propose pragmatic fixes, and help execute them
Work with Product, Design, Support, Professional Services and Engineering
Drive multi-team alignment around timelines, expectations, and quality standards