Manager, Software Engineering

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The Royal Caribbean Group's
Digital Team
has an exciting career opportunity for a full time
Manager, Software Engineering
reporting to the
Director, Product Engineering.

This position is onsite and based in Miami, Florida.

This position is also not eligible for work authorization sponsorship.

Position Summary:

The
Software Engineering Manager
leads the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade digital commerce solutions built on SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris) and a modern microservices ecosystem on the latest Spring stack. This dual-focus role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management, program oversight, and stakeholder engagement. The incumbent is accountable for end-to-end engineering quality, scalability, performance, and time-to-market across both SAP Commerce and Spring-based microservices.

• Leads architecture, design, and delivery of SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris) solutions, including B2B, B2C, and headless commerce implementations.
• Provides technical direction across modules such as Product Catalog, Promotions, Order Management, Customer Support, Backoffice.
• Drives integration design with Microservices, GraphQL, SAP, AEM, payment gateways, Fidelio, CRM, and third-party APIs.
• Oversees upgrades, migrations, and adoption of Spartacus / Composable Storefront.
• Establishes and enforces coding standards, design patterns, security practices, and performance benchmarks for SAP Commerce code base.
• Reviews critical pull requests, technical designs, and production incidents; acts as the final escalation point for complex technical issues.
• Architects and governs cloud-native microservices using the latest Spring ecosystem, defining service decomposition strategies, API contracts, and versioning standards.
• Leads adoption of Spring Cloud components and establishes patterns for resilience, retries, circuit breakers, and rate limiting.
• Drives event-driven and reactive architectures using Apache Kafka, Spring Cloud Stream, Spring Web Flux, and Project Reactor.
• Standardizes containerization and orchestration on Docker and Kubernetes; evaluates service mesh where applicable.
• Owns observability standards and ensures SLO/SLI-based operational excellence.
• Drives integration of Spring Boot microservices with SAP Commerce for key commerce capabilities.
• Establishes migration and modernization roadmaps for legacy services.
• Owns end-to-end delivery of SAP Commerce and microservices programs, ensuring scope, schedule, quality, and budget commitments.
• Partners with Product, Business, and Architecture teams to translate business requirements into technical roadmaps.
• Drives Agile, Scrum, and SAFe practices; manages release cycles, environment strategy, CI/CD pipelines, and Dev Ops practices.
• Tracks and reports on engineering KPIs.
• Leads, mentors, and grows a team of tech leads and developers across onshore and offshore locations.
• Drives hiring, onboarding, capacity planning, performance reviews, and career development.
• Builds a high-performance culture grounded in ownership, accountability, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
• Acts as the primary engineering point of contact for senior business stakeholders, product owners, and executive leadership.
• Manages relationships with SAP, system integrators, and other technology vendors.
• Ensures adherence to security standards and drives non-functional requirements across all production systems.
• Champions automated testing, code quality tools, and production readiness checklists.
• Drives adoption of AI-assisted developer tools and embeds AI into daily engineering workflows.
• Establishes responsible AI usage guidelines and tracks AI productivity metrics.
• Evaluates and pilots emerging AI capabilities for the SAP Commerce roadmap.

Qualifications and

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering,…