Software Development Manager - Modernization

United States Cold Storage, Inc. • Conshohocken, PA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Lead the teams building the next-generation warehouse management platform.

Who We Are:

United States Cold Storage owns and operates one of the most complex
temperature-controlled logistics networks in North America. Every day, our
systems coordinate the storage and movement of food at national scale across a
network of state-of-the-art distribution centers, including multiple highly
automated warehouse facilities.

We continue to advance our core warehouse and logistics platforms. Our current
focus is on modular, event-driven, API-first and cloud architectures. We
continue to enhance reliability and accelerate engineering productivity by
strengthening our SRE and AI practices. This is a large investment in innovation
to continue to drive operational excellence at our facilities.

If you want to build durable systems that operate in the physical world at
scale, this is that opportunity.

The Role:

The Software Development Manager will lead multiple teams to modernize our
warehouse management system. Your teams will incrementally extract services from
a large-scale, production Java monolith into an api-first, event-driven
microservice architecture on Azure. You will be an active technical participant:
engaging in architecture decisions, conducting code reviews, and ensuring your
teams make sound design tradeoffs that balance delivery velocity with long-term
maintainability. You will collaborate with architecture, site reliability, QA,
and platform teams to drive alignment, contribute to US Cold's technical
standards, and own team performance and delivery outcomes. You will serve as a
credible technical voice for your teams with senior leadership and across the
organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. Master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience including managing multiple teams.
• Demonstrated record of modernizing monolith applications into microservices.
• Working knowledge of microservice based architectures to contribute meaningfully to architecture decisions and code reviews.
• Strong understanding of system design principles including 12-factor app methodology, observability, and performance optimization.
• Experience with Azure or a similar cloud platform.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions, delivery risk, and resource tradeoffs clearly to senior leadership.

Nice To Haves

• Relational and non-relational database design and tuning.
• Experience defining and managing OKRs or similar structured goal frameworks.
• Logistics, warehousing, or supply chain experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage two engineering teams of 3–6 engineers each, including a new internal team and an existing European-based consulting team.
• Build and staff the new internal team; define the technical hiring bar and own the full hiring process.
• Lead and hold accountable the existing offshore consulting team, including managing delivery commitments and vendor relationship.
• Provide coaching, performance feedback, and career development for the internal team.
• Establish measurable objectives and key results at the team and individual level.
• Own roadmap execution and delivery outcomes.
• Monitor progress, remove delivery blockers, and escalate risks appropriately.
• Champion standards in architecture, testing, observability, and operability.
• Communicate risks, tradeoffs, and resource needs clearly to leadership.
• Drive cross-functional alignment with Architecture, Platform, QA, and Product.
• Create an environment of accountability, clarity, and continuous improvement.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription, Legal Insurance, Pet Discount, Critical Illness, Accident Insurance, Hospital Indemnity, Long Term Care + Permanent Life Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Short Term Disability Insurance, Long Term Disability Insurance, Supplemental Disability Insurance, Basic Life Insurance, Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance, Supplemental Life Insurance, Supplemental Spouse Life Insurance, Child Life Insurance, Loan Solution, Health Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Flexible Spending Account, Telemedicine, Virtual Primary Care, Prescription Savings Plan, Prescription Specialty Copay Assistance Program, Weight Management Program, Chronic Condition Management, Care Navigator Program, 24/7 Nurse Line, Expert Medical Opinion, Precious Additions Maternity Program, Health Advocacy, Employee Assistance Program, Digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Digital Physical Therapy, Behavioral and Mental Health Platforms, Auto and home discount program, Secure Travel Protection, Discount Programs, 401(k) plan, Education Assistance, Paid Time Off, Referral program & Commuter Benefit (NJ ONLY).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees