Senior Software Engineering Manager

Overview

The Senior Software Engineering Manager leads engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and AI-powered platforms that support retail store operations, associate productivity, and customer experience. This role partners closely with Product and Business teams to translate product requirements into high-quality engineering solutions, while ensuring strong execution, operational excellence, and system reliability across both new and existing platforms.

Responsibilities

• Engineering Delivery & Execution
  • Lead end-to-end engineering execution for multiple concurrent initiatives
  • Translate product and business requirements into technical designs and deliverables
  • Drive predictable, high-quality delivery across teams
  • Ensure adherence to:
    • Code quality standards
    • Testing strategies
    • CI/CD pipelines
    • DevOps practices
  • Conduct system design reviews to ensure scalability and alignment with architecture
• Product & Business Partnership (Not Ownership)
  • Partner with Product and Business teams to understand customer and operational needs
  • Refine problem statements
  • Influence technical solutions
  • Provide visibility into scope, effort, trade-offs, and resource needs
  • Support prioritization decisions based on business value, technical feasibility, and delivery timelines
• AI & Retail Innovation
  • Build and enable AI-driven applications and automation features
  • Collaborate with Generative AI, AI agents, and machine learning components
  • Contribute to solutions for store operations optimization, inventory intelligence, and associate productivity tools
  • Promote use of AI-assisted development tools and intelligent automation frameworks
• Product Support & Operational Excellence (Build + Run)
  • Ensure systems are production-ready and highly reliable
  • Lead engineering teams in platform support, incident management, and root cause analysis (RCA)
  • Define and track system reliability metrics, performance benchmarks, and delivery KPIs (velocity, cycle time, defect rates)
  • Improve system resilience through monitoring and alerting, observability practices, and continuous improvement
• Team Leadership & People Management
  • Lead and grow a team of software engineers and technical leads
  • Drive hiring, onboarding, mentorship, and performance management
  • Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous learning
  • Enable teams through clear delegation, documentation, and tooling/development frameworks
• Agile & Execution Excellence
  • Champion Agile/Lean methodologies
  • Facilitate sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and release management
  • Coordinate across teams through Scrum-of-scrums and cross-team planning
• Platform & Cost Optimization
  • Drive efficiency through automation, tooling improvements, and process optimization
  • Lead cost optimization efforts: cloud cost management, infrastructure efficiency, and licensing optimization
• Governance & Compliance
  • Ensure adherence to security standards, compliance requirements (e.g., SOX), and data governance practices

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 12+ years of software development experience
• 3+ years in engineering leadership roles
• Experience leading teams of 8+ engineers
• Strong expertise in:
  • Microservices architecture
  • Data structures & algorithms
  • Cloud platforms
  • Distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with:
  • Generative AI / AI-enabled development
  • CI/CD tools (Git, Maven, Jenkins)
  • Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Messaging systems (Kafka)

Core Competencies

• Customer Focus
• Communication
• Driving for Results
• Coaching and Developing Others
• Leading Change

Benefits

In addition to a rewarding career, Sprouts offers a comprehensive program to help support you and your family. These programs include:

• Competitive pay
• Sick time plan that you can use to support you or your immediate families health
• Vacation accrual plan
• Opportunities for career growth
• 15% discount for you and one other family member in your household on all purchases made at Sprouts
• Flexible schedules
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(K) Retirement savings plan with a generous company match
• Company paid life insurance
• Contests and appreciation events throughout the year

Eligibility requirements may apply for the following benefits:

• Bonus based on company and/or individual performance
• Affordable benefit coverage, including medical, dental, and vision
• Health Savings Account with company match
• Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
• Company paid short-term disability coverage
• Paid parental leave for both mothers and fathers
• Paid holidays

Additional

Get Paid Every Day: Sprouts offers DailyPay, enabling access to earned wages before payday. For more information, visit DailyPay.

The statements above describe the general nature and level of work and are not a complete list of duties. Sprouts reserves the right to amend duties as necessary. Sprouts will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance. California Residents: We collect information in accordance with California law.