Senior Engineering Manager

AutoStore holds a simple yet powerful vision: to store and move things for everyone everywhere. Founded in Norway weve grown into a global technology company. AutoStore uses advanced software to automate and orchestrate order fulfillment. Our goal is to ensure orders arrive faster than ever with minimal environmental impact. Thats how we help brands exceed customer expectations.

We have more than 1600 systems in nearly 60 countries and we grow continuously as a community of employees partners customers suppliers and connected technologies. Automation should make life easier and by listening carefully to our community we innovate to meet the industrys most complex needs. With AutoStore brands gain speed efficiency and improved workplaces. And much more floor space.

AutoStore moving things forward.

The Role:

As AutoStores Senior Engineering Manager you will lead engineering teams responsible for designing developing and delivering high-quality software products or platforms. This role requires you to balance technical leadership people management and strategic planningensuring your teams are aligned with business goals and committed to engineering excellence.

You will contribute to the vision and execution of the product operating within the companys overall product strategy and collaborating closely with product and engineering leadership.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Lead coach and mentor a team of software engineers and technical leads. Foster a culture of collaboration innovation accountability and continuous improvement.

• Conduct performance reviews set goals and support career growth.

• Drive team execution through effective sprint planning standups and delivery.

• Guide architectural decisions design reviews and code quality standards.

• Drive technical roadmap in alignment with product and business strategy.

• Stay hands-on as needed especially for complex system designs or troubleshooting.

• Collaborate with Product Managers and stakeholders to plan and prioritize software deliverables.

• Ensure on-time delivery of high-quality scalable and secure software.

• Use Agile or other methodologies and tools (Scrum Kanban Jira) to track progress and evolve software organization with continuous improvement.

• Experience working in a global organization with geographically distributed teams and flexibility to engage across time zones as needed.

• Work closely with DevOps QA UX and Security teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.

• Represent engineering in product planning release readiness and customer discussions.

• Communicate effectively with executive leadership on team performance risks and timelines.

Key Qualifications:

• 10 years of relevant experience in software development. Must have strong knowledge of modern programming languages and best software engineering practices.

• 5 years managing a distributed software engineering team

• Must be able to serve as a technical expert and be knowledgeable with microservices distributed systems modern software architectures cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Azure GCP) and CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong culture building skillset is required. Youll need excellent communication leadership and interpersonal skills to be successful in this role.

• Must be comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels of the organization and directly with customers.

• Strategic thinking with a bias toward action and results and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Skilled in balancing technical depth with big-picture thinking to guide teams through architectural decisions trade-offs and scaling challenges.

• Experience representing engineering in planning quarterly business reviews or strategy sessions.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.

Bonus Points:

• 2 to 3 years of warehouse logistics expertise and subject understanding. While not necessary this experience is preferred.

We Offer:

AutoStore believes in taking care of employees and is dedicated to providing a supportive and rewarding work environment. Join us in our mission to store and move things for everyone everywhere.

• 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

• Additional benefits include Group Life Insurance Voluntary Additional Life Insurance Disability Insurance Employee Assistance programs and more!

Compensation: 140000 - 175000 USD

AutoStore is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race color creed religion national origin ancestry citizenship status age sex or gender (including pregnancy childbirth pregnancy-related conditions and lactation) gender identity or expression (including transgender status) sexual orientation marital status military service and veteran status physical or mental disability genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local laws and ordinances.

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