Software Engineering Manager (Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio) - H-E-B

H-E-B is one of the largest, independently owned food retailers in the nation operating over 420+ stores throughout Texas and Mexico, with annual sales generating over $34 billion. Described by industry experts as a daring innovator and smart competitor, H-E-B has led the way with creative new concepts, outstanding service and a commitment to diversity in our workforce, workplace and marketplace. H-E-B offers a wealth of career opportunities to our 150,000+ Partners (employees), competitive compensation and benefits program and comprehensive training that lead to successful careers.

H-E-B Digital is seeking new team members (Partners)! Since our inception, we’ve been investing heavily in our customers’ digital experience, reinventing how they find inspiration from food, how they make food decisions, and how they ultimately get food into their homes. This is an exciting time to join H-E-B Digital, and we’re hiring across the stack: front-end web and mobile, full-stack, and backend engineering. We’re using the best available technologies to deliver modern, engaging, reliable, and scalable experiences to meet the needs of our growing audience. Our digital solutions are growing in popularity and adoption—like Curbside and Home Delivery—so you’ll get the opportunity to define the user experience for millions of customers and hundreds of thousands of Partners. If you’re someone who enjoys taking on new challenges, working in a rapidly changing environment, learning new skills, and applying it all to solve large and impactful business problems, we want you as part of our team. 

Our Partners thrive The H-E-B Way. In the Software Engineering Manager job, that means you have a...
HEART FOR PEOPLE... you have a passion for mentorship and guidance, and love for the direct person-to-person interactions that create strong bonds between teams
HEAD FOR BUSINESS... you have an ownership mentality and a consistent track record of timely delivery of high-quality software
PASSION FOR RESULTS... the ability to guide the discussion, remove roadblocks, and provide guardrails for your team as they identify challenges and propose solutions

Overview
The Store Experience team in Digital is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our reinvention and modernization efforts focused on systems that manage all paper and electronic shelf labels and tags across all H-E-B stores.  This individual should be passionate about balancing innovation projects with modernization goals. As a Software Engineering Manager, you'll raise up your team, helping develop individual careers and achieving goals, addressing common team problems, coaching, and mentoring the engineers. You will lead a skilled, highly motivated team that builds, maintains, and continually improves an ecosystem of web and backend services to help our store Partners print, hang, and deliver both paper & electronic price and product information directly to our H-E-B shelves. You'll provide leadership across all aspects of the Agile development lifecycle as a Software Engineering Manager to maintain a high bar for technology, people, and process.

What You'll Do (Management, Strategy)

• Directly supervise individual contributors
• Coach / mentor others in engineering techniques, processes, and new technologies; enable others to succeed; empower team members to be autonomous, fast, and effective
• Manage all HR responsibilities for your team, including pay planning, promotions, expenses, and leave
• Understand / foster the value of radical candor when having 1:1 conversations
• Lead large initiatives within the team, including technical design / delivery of complex features across multiple systems as H-E-B improves the customer and Partner user experiences
• Help grow Digital Engineering by driving execution of organization-wide activities
• Prioritize projects and work to ensure alignment with Product Owners / Managers and business leaders; provide systems / business process updates and status
• Recommend improvements to overall application system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance
• Identify ways to improve codebases, solutions to complex problems; effectively propose paths forward to drive outcomes
• Recommend changes to processes and tools at the group / dept level based on industry standards, patterns, and practices
• Diagnose / troubleshoot extremely complex issues
• Create documentation and training related to technology stacks and standards

• Set goals for team / team Partner growth; provide frequent performance feedback; write / deliver Corporate-directed performance reviews; address poor performance; develop top-tier talent

• Jump down to IC-level duties, when needed, to provide guidance on code reviews or pull requests

Who You Are

• You have a related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience
• You have 6+ years as a Software Engineer and have successful leadership (of small teams of 4 - 8) experience
• You have expert knowledge of system architecture and design patterns
• You have deep knowledge of multiple technologies,

Qualifications

• You have an expert understanding of development methodologies and processes
• You understand cross-tech stacks and scalability and reliability implications
• You have technical competence equivalent to expectations of a Senior Engineer
• You have skills in multiple languages, technologies, and frameworks and can quickly on-board to projects in minimal time
• You're capable of learning new technologies, processes, or business quickly and effectively
• You approach problem-solving holistically and consider solutions through a combination of technology and processes
• You can coordinate work for a group of engineers on major initiatives

Who We Are

• H-E-B is one of the largest, independently owned food retailers in the nation, operating over 400 stores throughout Texas and Mexico, with annual sales generating over $40 billion
• We hire talented people (150,000+ Partners), and give them autonomy to be creative in how they impact the business
• We're a Partner-driven company with a Bold Promise - Because People Matter
• We embrace Diversity and Inclusion as core values, and support them with thriving company-wide programs
• We're a truly original Texas-based company that created the Spirit of Giving to help Texas communities every day
• Once eligible, our Partners become Owners in the company. 'Partner-owned' means our most important resources--People--drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B The Greatest Retailing Company

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08-2019