Software Engineer Manager - Supply Chain

Position Purpose

As a Software Engineer Manager, you will be responsible for managing a team of software engineers that develops software specifically for Warehouse Execution Systems (WES) and/or Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). This includes working on logic and execution related to conveyor routing, sortation, order streaming, goods-to-person, and task and labor optimization, ensuring effective integration between the two systems to enhance operational efficiency.

You will have the opportunity to contribute to the products we create and help grow the next generation of engineering talent. In addition, you will be given the chance to work with our most strategic warehouse automation vendors to ensure that 3rd party tools and applications are readily available to all product teams that are interested in using them.

• Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
• Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases
• Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms
• Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
• Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment
• Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
• Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
• Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office
• Leverages Agentic AI approaches to build autonomous workflows that improve warehouse efficiency, such as dynamic task allocation, order streaming, routing, and labor optimization.

• Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams
• Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
• Provides application support for software running in production
• Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team

• Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers
• Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team
• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback
• Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests
• Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
• Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams
• Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)

• Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
• Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems

• Typically reports to the Software Engineer Sr. Manager, Technology Director or Sr. Director.

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)

• 5-7 years of relevant work experience
• Has a deep understanding of warehousing and logistics, and understands how their software impacts the performance and processes of the warehouse operations team.
• Experience working with and communicating with PLCs
• Experience developing conveyor control systems, routing systems, sortation systems, merge systems, goods to person systems, order streaming/work release systems, and warehouse execution systems
• Experience working with conveyor components such as motors, photo eyes, scanners and scan tunnels, inline tapers, inline print and apply systems, inline scales, goods to person systems, palletizers and depalletizers, robotic arms, etc.
• Experience applying Agentic AI frameworks (e.g., Lang Chain, Auto Gen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel) to orchestrate multi-step, autonomous workflows.
• Knowledge of reinforcement learning, planning algorithms, or autonomous agents for optimization in dynamic environments.
• Experience leading teams building AI copilots or autonomous task agents that improve engineering…