Senior Software Engineering Manager, Supervisory Control Platform Team

Auto Store holds a simple yet powerful vision: to store and move things for everyone, everywhere. Founded in Norway, we've grown into a global technology company. Auto Store uses advanced software to automate and orchestrate order fulfillment. Our goal is to ensure orders arrive faster than ever, with minimal environmental impact. That’s 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 industry’s most complex needs. With Auto Store, brands gain speed, efficiency, and improved workplaces. And much more floor space.

Auto Store – moving things forward.

The Role:

This opportunity has arisen due to the expansion of our software engineering organization. This is a senior people leadership role in our engineering organization, with the title of Senior Software Engineering Manager, Supervisory Control Platform. This role is accountable for software delivery execution, team leadership, engineering process maturity, and cross-functional alignment for the platform.

You lead software teams responsible for delivering the platform, including software design and development for the full Auto Store SW platform and end-to-end connectivity from on-premise systems to cloud services. The role ensures clear priorities, predictable execution, high-quality engineering practices, and effective collaboration across Product, Architecture, Controls, Cloud, and integration partners.

This role reports to the SVP of Software Engineering and partners with Controls teams, Warehouse Execution and Management Software teams, Product, and integration partners.

Key responsibilities:

Lead, coach, and develop software engineers and team leads; build a high-performing team culture with clear ownership, accountability, and growth plans.

Own delivery planning, prioritization, execution tracking, and risk management across platform initiatives, ensuring commitments are realistic, visible, and delivered with quality.

Establish and improve planning, estimation, sprint execution, release readiness, quality gates, and operational review processes.

Partner with Product, Architecture, Controls, QA, Dev Ops, and customer-facing teams to align roadmap priorities, dependencies, integration plans, and delivery milestones.

Drive disciplined execution across requirements clarity, technical readiness, test coverage, release planning, defect management, and production readiness.

Oversee software design, development, and execution for the Auto Store platform, ensuring scalable architecture, clear engineering ownership, and alignment with product and customer deployment needs.

Lead execution for secure, reliable, and observable connectivity between on-premise warehouse systems and cloud-based platform services, including integration, deployment, and operational readiness considerations.

Work closely with architects and senior engineers to ensure technical direction, design decisions, and engineering standards are understood, planned, and executed effectively by the teams.

Key

Qualifications:

At least 10+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in a software development management or engineering leadership role.

Proven experience managing software teams responsible for complex platform, middleware, distributed systems, or operational software delivery.

Strong track record in execution management, delivery planning, dependency management, engineering process improvement, and stakeholder communication.

Experience leading teams that deliver APIs, integration contracts, backend services, or platform capabilities across independently owned systems.

Experience with cloud platforms and hybrid architecture, including secure connectivity between on-premise systems and cloud services, is required.

Ability to balance technical depth, people leadership, execution discipline, and business priorities in a fast-paced engineering environment.

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a…