Senior Software Engineering Manager

AutoStore System • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

AutoStore is hiring for a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead the software delivery execution, team leadership, engineering process maturity, and cross-functional alignment for the platform of a newly established team. Here, your team will build, maintain, and grow a supervisory control platform, and run end-to-end connectivity of our on-premise systems to our cloud services. You'll be responsible for engineering culture, prioritization, execution, and cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

• At least 10+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in a software development management or engineering leadership role.
• Proven experience managing software teams responsible for complex platform, middleware, distributed systems, or operational software delivery.
• Strong track record in execution management, delivery planning, dependency management, engineering process improvement, and stakeholder communication.
• Experience leading teams that deliver APIs, integration contracts, backend services, or platform capabilities across independently owned systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms and hybrid architecture, including secure connectivity between on-premise systems and cloud services, is required.
• Ability to balance technical depth, people leadership, execution discipline, and business priorities in a fast-paced engineering environment.
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong technical understanding of distributed systems, control-platform architecture, APIs, messaging, data contracts, fault tolerance, and performance-sensitive software design.
• Experience leading teams using modern programming languages, platforms, and engineering practices relevant to control systems, orchestration layers, middleware, or large-scale backend services.
• Hands-on understanding of cloud platforms, hybrid connectivity patterns, CI/CD, observability, DevOps, testing automation, and release management practices relevant to platform delivery and operations.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
• Comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Strategic thinking with a bias toward action and results.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Skilled in balancing people leadership, technical depth, execution discipline, and big-picture thinking to guide teams through delivery trade-offs and scaling challenges.
• Experience representing engineering in planning, quarterly business reviews, strategy sessions, and delivery governance forums.

Nice To Haves

• Warehouse automation / robotics / intralogistics background (WES/WMS/WCS, AutoStore, ASRS, or comparable).
• Experience managing teams working across independently owned software and control-system components.
• Track record improving team execution, engineering processes, delivery predictability, and release quality at scale.
• Warehouse logistics, automation, or intralogistics domain experience (ideally with 2–3 years of relevant exposure).

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop software engineers and team leads; build a high-performing team culture with clear ownership, accountability, and growth plans.
• Own delivery planning, prioritization, execution tracking, and risk management across platform initiatives, ensuring commitments are realistic, visible, and delivered with quality.
• Establish and improve planning, estimation, sprint execution, release readiness, quality gates, and operational review processes.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Controls, QA, DevOps, and customer-facing teams to align roadmap priorities, dependencies, integration plans, and delivery milestones.
• Drive disciplined execution across requirements clarity, technical readiness, test coverage, release planning, defect management, and production readiness.
• Oversee software design, development, and execution for the AutoStore platform, ensuring scalable architecture, clear engineering ownership, and alignment with product and customer deployment needs.
• Lead execution for secure, reliable, and observable connectivity between on-premise warehouse systems and cloud-based platform services, including integration, deployment, and operational readiness considerations.
• Work closely with architects and senior engineers to ensure technical direction, design decisions, and engineering standards are understood, planned, and executed effectively by the teams.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off including 12 holidays, paid exercise time, paid volunteer time, and paid parental leave plans for all new parents
• Retirement 401(k) plan with employer match and discretionary profit sharing contribution
• Educational assistance and professional development programs, including mentorship/coaching programs with external industry leaders
• Group Life Insurance
• Voluntary Additional Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Employee Assistance programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior