Senior Manager Software Engineering

Leads a large, multi-discipline engineering team responsible for a defined product, service, or platform domain. Owns team objectives, delivery priorities, and operating plans with a timeframe of at least one year; develops team leads and senior engineers; and partners with Principal and senior technical leaders to set architecture, engineering practices, and delivery across disciplines.

The role reports to our Store Support Office in Phoenix, AZ, with a hybrid work arrangement requiring in-office presence Tuesday through Thursday.

• Lead the design, delivery, operation, and continuous improvement of a defined product, service, or platform domain across disciplines and sub-teams.
• Establish multi-quarter team goals, delivery priorities, and operating plans; contribute to department planning and own operational results.
• Lead, direct, and review the work of engineering professionals and team leads across software, data, quality, ML/AI, and reliability disciplines.
• Coach and develop team leads and senior engineers; partner with Principal and senior technical leaders to set architecture, engineering standards, and cross-discipline delivery.
• Review architecture and major technical decisions to assess tradeoffs; review code as needed.
• Improve engineering processes, systems, and team practices across the assigned domain.
• Explain technical and delivery decisions and gain cooperation from Product, Design, Data, and senior leadership.
• Hire, onboard, develop, and manage performance and succession in accordance with company guidelines.
• Serve as the escalation point for incident response and corrective actions across the assigned domain.
• Own headcount planning, build the team-lead layer, and recommend structure changes as the organization grows.
• Manage vendor and co-build partner relationships and deliverables.

Knowledge Skills & Abilities

• 7+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including hands-on experience prior to moving into people leadership.
• People-leadership experience managing team leads or senior engineers across software, data, quality, ML/AI, and site reliability disciplines, or leading a team of ten or more.
• Track record owning a product, platform, or multi-service engineering domain end to end.
• Production proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, or Type Script.
• Knowledge of cloud-native engineering, Kubernetes, containers, and CI/CD practices.
• Ability to review code and architecture and resolve difficult issues involving related systems or job areas.
• Experience with work prioritization, multi-quarter delivery and resource planning, coaching, and process execution.
• Experience with hiring, performance management, promotion, and reward recommendations in accordance with company guidelines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior individual-contributor experience at the Senior or Staff Software Engineer level.
• Working knowledge of agentic AI or large language model service architecture.
• Retail or merchandising technology experience.
• Experience managing vendor or co-build partner engagements.

Core Competencies

• Customer Focus
• Communication
• Driving for Results
• Coaching and Developing Others
• Leading Change

In addition to a rewarding career, Sprouts offers a comprehensive program to help support you and your family. These programs include:

• Competitive pay
• Sick time plan that you can use to support you or your immediate families health
• Vacation accrual plan
• Opportunities for career growth
• 15% discount for you and one other family member in your household on all purchases made at Sprouts
• Flexible schedules
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(K) Retirement savings plan with a generous company match
• Company paid life insurance
• C…