Software Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager Omni POD

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our growing Omni POD engineering team. In this role, you will guide architectural and technical decisions, coach and develop engineers, and ensure delivery of scalable, maintainable, and high-performance systems. You will partner closely with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful products while fostering a strong engineering culture and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a team of 5–6 engineers, providing coaching, career development, and performance feedback.
• Drive architectural direction and ensure solutions meet scalability, performance, and reliability goals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to define product requirements and translate them into technical roadmaps.
• Oversee application design and delivery, ensuring clear documentation (design docs, flow charts, sequence diagrams) to support on-time, high-quality releases.
• Partner with senior engineers to create and optimize database schemas, queries, and models for performance and scalability.
• Maintain high engineering quality through best practices like automated testing, peer reviews, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Facilitate technical planning, resource allocation, and prioritization to align with business objectives.
• Stay informed on industry trends and emerging technologies, bringing innovative approaches to the team.
• Promote a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture.

Qualifications:

Experience:

• 10+ years in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a people management or technical leadership role.
• 2+ years of experience in Managing engineers direct.
• Proven track record in building and scaling backend services and distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of database design, modeling, and optimization (SQL and NoSQL).
• Experience with AWS and modern infrastructure tools (Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform).
• Familiarity with microservices and event-driven architectures.

Technical Skills:

• Background in Java, Golang, Elixir, or Scala (hands-on coding not primary focus, but technical depth is essential).
• Knowledge of modern development practices (CI/CD, Git, containerization).
• Exposure to frontend development (React) is a plus.

Soft Skills:

• Strong leadership, mentoring, and coaching abilities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams.
• Ability to prioritize, manage multiple projects, and adapt to changing requirements.
• Commitment to fostering a positive, growth-oriented engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Design and development of various integration specifications using JSON, XML, EDI (X12 and EDIFACT maps). Very familiar with Supply chain domain concepts. Having worked with a retailer or wholesaler in apparel industry is a definite plus.
• Work closely with the order capture and validation teams as they build out new solutions for B2B Customer order capture and enabling a pathway to migrating  applications from the current older EDI platform (Informix 4GL) to a new one (Java, ReactJS). The transition role is more from supporting on a Subject Matter Level effort providing guidance on business rules.
• Manage daily EDI and integration operations including but not limited to - monitoring order flow between B2B entities, shipment advices, invoice processing etc
• As a leader of integration projects, the manager is responsible for defining project scopes, deliverables and schedules. Allocates resources for such efforts and ensuring that any testing efforts both internal and external are well coordinated.
• Communication is key for this role. Some important activities for communication involve establishing business stakeholder meetings, frequent meetings with product managers who are responsible for various systems that interface with the order and shipment pipelines.
• Manage team members who have engineering and non engineering background.

Qualifications

• The candidate will be reporting the Director of Engineering / VP of Engineering, so understanding of finance concepts of running a small or large team is essential.
• The candidate will have software engineers and analysts reporting into them. People management skills is also essential.
• Conflict resolution and understanding trade offs when prioritizing resources is a critical trait of the Engineering manager.
• The candidate will have expert skills in SQL, software engineering principles, agile and Kanban delivery mechanisms, documentation using wiki and task management tools.
• The candidate will possess fair skills in at least one programming language, software development estimation, software architecture and tools associated with that.
• Should have a minimum of 5 years experience in the relevant field as an individual contributor and a minimum of 3 years experience as a manager.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering in computer science or equivalent discipline preferred. MBA is an added plus.