Manager, Software Engineering
Job Summary
Location: Pune Maharashtra
Overview
We are looking for a hands-on Staff Software Development Engineer to lead a software development team building modern scalable systems at Hershey. This role is ideal for a manager who enjoys balancing people leadership with technical oversight driving reliable delivery and partnering closely with product and design.
As an Staff Software Development Engineer you will be accountable for your teams execution quality and growth. Youll help engineers deliver high-quality software predictably support their career development and ensure strong engineering practices are consistently applied. You will work in a collaborative environment spanning multiple business domains such as supply chain marketing and consumer insights.
Key Responsibilities
Drive Team Execution
Youare responsible forensuring predictable high-quality delivery of features and services by your team. Youfacilitateagile ceremonies help prioritize work manage technical debt trade-offs and remove impediments that slow progress. You partner with engineers tomaintainfocus on outcomes while balancing speed quality and sustainability.
Develop Engineering Talent
You own the day-to-day people management responsibilities for individual contributors on your team. This includes regular 1:1s actionable feedback career development discussions and performance reviews. You help engineers grow their technical and professional skills while aligning individual goals with team and organizational needs.
Partner with Product and Design
You collaborate closely with Product Managers and Designers to define scope clarify requirements and prioritize the backlog. You ensure the team understands the why behind the work and helptranslate product goals intofeasibletechnical plans. This partnership enables the team to deliver customer- and business-focused solutions effectively.
Maintain Technical Standards
You ensure the team adheres toestablishedengineering standards related to coding testing documentation and operations. Youoversee code review and design review practicesand help define what good quality looks like for the team. You advocate observability reliability and maintainability so systems are ready tooperatein production.
Recruit and Build the Team
You activelyparticipatein hiring onboarding and retaining engineers. This includes evaluating candidates for technical and cultural fit supporting new hires as they ramp up and fostering an inclusive collaborative team environment. You contribute to building a balanced team with the skills needed to meet current and future goals.
Basic Qualifications (Must Haves)
Bachelors degree in Computer Scienceor equivalent experience
5 years of professional software engineering experience with 2 years in a technical leadership or people management role
Experience leading teams to deliver production software including working through ambiguous requirements
Solid understanding of modern software development practices including agile methodologies CI/CD and support of production systems
Strong communicationskills and experience collaborating with cross-functional partners such as Product Design and Business stakeholders
Proven ability to mentor engineers and support ongoing professional development
Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Haves)
Experience working in greenfield or rapidly evolving product environments
Familiarity with modern full-stack or cloud-based technologies (e.g. JavaScript/TypeScript React Azure or similar)
Experience designing or supporting scalable and reliable systems in the cloud
Experience guiding engineers in applying AI/ML or LLM-based services including participation in design reviews prompt strategy discussions and ensuring reliable API integrations
The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The policy of The Hershey Company is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individuals race color gender age national origin religion citizenship status marital status sexual orientation gender identity transgender status physical or mental disability protected veteran status genetic information pregnancy or any other categories protected by applicable federal state or local laws.
The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veterans.
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Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
Here at Hershey, our purpose is to make more moments of goodness for consumers around the world.