Software Development Manager

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Full Time Management HQ, Seattle, WA, US

3 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

ABOUT US

Card Kingdom has served Magic:
The Gathering players across the world for over 20 years. We are a trusted source for buying and selling Magic:
The Gathering singles, packs, and booster boxes from throughout the game's history. Our love of the community and game shines through everything we do. We are a customer-centric, data-driven, innovative workplace. We value our team and recognize that every role in our organization is behind delivering our renowned customer experience.

In addition to our eCommerce business, Card Kingdom owns and operates the award-winning game store and restaurant, Mox Boarding House. With unique locations in Seattle, Bellevue, Portland, and Chandler, we deliver an elevated experience to local gaming communities.

Our Mission: We use tabletop gaming as a campfire – a place to gather, share and celebrate – for the sake of cultivating deeper relationships with our customers, amongst ourselves, with our communities, and the world.

Our Benefits: Excellent benefits, generous PTO, and flexible scheduling, remote work opportunities, paid parental leave, safe harbor 401k match, paid holidays and employee discounts. We are a family friendly culture that supports work life balance.

Role:

We're looking for a Software Development Manager to lead our eCommerce engineering team — the team behind  You'll own the customer-facing storefront end to end: catalog, search, cart, checkout, account management, and the buying and selling experiences that serve Magic players worldwide. You'll build great teams and great software: a player/coach who is equal parts hands‑on technologist, delivery leader, and people manager.

You’ll stay close to the work — reviewing designs, pairing on hard problems, digging into production issues alongside the team, and occasionally writing code — always in service of teaching and raising the bar. You’ll partner closely with our Principal Engineer(s), who set technical direction, and you’ll champion consistency and alignment across the team's solutions rather than letting one‑off approaches accumulate.

Above all, you’ll own predictable delivery against the roadmap: taking large, ambiguous initiatives, breaking them into incrementally shippable pieces, driving honest estimation even when information is incomplete, and leading your team to deliver reliably — quarter after quarter.

You don’t need to play Magic:
The Gathering to thrive here. But if you’ve ever sleeved a deck, chased down the last card for a Commander build, or just love serving a passionate community of enthusiasts — you’ll feel right at home.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical leadership & stewardship

• Bring senior-level engineering depth to evaluate designs, challenge architecture, and keep your team's technical decisions sound — partnering with and amplifying the Principal Engineer(s) who author our technical direction.
• Steward our engineering standards: drive consistency in patterns, conventions, and practices across your team (including contractors and vendors), treating deviations as deliberate, reviewed exceptions.
• Hold a high bar for the customer experience — performance, responsiveness, accessibility (WCAG), and SEO — and coach engineers to build to it.
• Raise your team's effective, responsible use of generative‑AI tooling for software development, within our approved tools and policies — and help mature those standards as they evolve.

Operational ownership

• Own the operational health of 's live systems under a "you build it, you run it" model — your team operates what it builds, in partnership with our Dev Ops team who provide infrastructure and platform patterns.
• Establish your team's on‑call rotation and ensure the team can support what it builds; lead incident response within our engineering‑wide incident management process — consistent across teams, and one you’ll help shape — and run blameless postmortems that drive systemic…