Senior Software Engineering Manager

Sprouts Farmers Market

Phoenix, AZ

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Agile Programming Methodologies, Algorithms, Apache Kafka, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agents, Automation, Benchmarking, Cloud Computing, Coaching, Computer Science, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Integration, Cost Control, Customer Experience, Customer Relations, Data Structures, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Docker, Documentation, Engineering Management, Establish Priorities, Git, Incident Management, Jenkins, Leadership, Lean Manufacturing, Licensing, Machine Learning, Machine Tool, Maintain Compliance, Maven, Mentoring, Messaging Technology, Metrics, Microservices, Needs Assessment, Onboarding, Operational Support, Performance Management, Performance Metrics, Process Improvement, Programming Tools, Quality Engineering, Quality Metrics, Regulatory Compliance, Release Management/Engineering, Requirements Management, Retail Operations, Root Cause Analysis, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Scrum Project Management and Software Development, Software Development, Software Engineering, Sprint Planning, Systems Reliability, Team Lead/Manager, Technical Delivery, Technical Leadership, Technical/Engineering Design, Test Strategy
LOCATION
Phoenix, AZ
POSTED
Today
Senior Software Engineering Manager

The Senior Software Engineering Manager leads engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and AI-powered platforms that support retail store operations, associate productivity, and customer experience.

This role partners closely with Product and Business teams to translate product requirements into high-quality engineering solutions, while ensuring strong execution, operational excellence, and system reliability across both new and existing platforms.

Overview of Responsibilities
  • Lead end-to-end engineering execution for multiple concurrent initiatives
  • Translate product and business requirements into technical designs and deliverables
  • Drive predictable, high-quality delivery across teams
  • Ensure adherence to:
    • Code quality standards
    • Testing strategies
    • CI/CD pipelines
    • DevOps practices
  • Conduct system design reviews to ensure scalability and alignment with architecture
  • Partner with Product and Business teams to:
    • Understand customer and operational needs
    • Refine problem statements
    • Influence technical solutions
  • Provide visibility into:
    • Scope
    • Effort
    • Trade-offs
    • Resource needs
  • Support prioritization decisions based on:
    • Business value
    • Technical feasibility
    • Delivery timelines
  • Build and enable AI-driven applications and automation features
  • Work with:
    • Generative AI
    • AI agents
    • Machine learning components
  • Contribute to solutions for:
    • Store operations optimization
    • Inventory intelligence
    • Associate productivity tools
  • Promote use of:
    • AI-assisted development tools
    • Intelligent automation frameworks
  • Ensure systems are production-ready and highly reliable
  • Lead engineering teams in:
    • Platform support
    • Incident management
    • Root cause analysis (RCA)
  • Define and track:
    • System reliability metrics
    • Performance benchmarks
    • Delivery KPIs (velocity, cycle time, defect rates)
  • Improve system resilience through:
    • Monitoring and alerting
    • Observability practices
    • Continuous improvement
  • Lead and grow a team of software engineers and technical leads
  • Drive:
    • Hiring
    • Onboarding
    • Mentorship
    • Performance management
  • Foster a culture of:
    • Accountability
    • Innovation
    • Continuous learning
  • Enable teams through:
    • Clear delegation
    • Documentation
    • Tooling and development frameworks
  • Champion Agile/Lean methodologies
  • Facilitate:
    • Sprint planning
    • Stand-ups
    • Retrospectives
    • Release management
  • Coordinate across teams through:
    • Scrum-of-scrums
    • Cross-team planning
  • Drive efficiency through:
    • Automation
    • Tooling improvements
    • Process optimization
  • Lead cost optimization efforts:
    • Cloud cost management
    • Infrastructure efficiency
    • Licensing optimization
  • Ensure adherence to:
    • Security standards
    • Compliance requirements (e.g., SOX)
    • Data governance practices
Qualifications
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 12+ years of software development experience
  • 3+ years in engineering leadership roles
  • Experience leading teams of 8+ engineers
  • Strong expertise in:
    • Microservices architecture
    • Data structures & algorithms
    • Cloud platforms
    • Distributed systems
  • Hands-on experience with:
    • Generative AI / AI-enabled development
    • CI/CD tools (Git, Maven, Jenkins)
    • Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
    • Messaging systems (Kafka)
Core Competencies
  • Customer Focus
  • Communication
  • Driving for Results
  • Coaching and Developing Others
  • Leading Change
Benefits

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
  • Contests and appreciation events throughout the year full of prizes, food and fun!
  • Eligibility requirements may apply for the following benefits:
    • Bonus based on company and/or individual performance
    • Affordable benefit coverage, including medical, dental and vision
    • Health Savings Account with company match
    • Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
    • Company paid short-term disability coverage
    • Paid parental leave for both mothers and fathers
    • Paid holidays
  • Get Paid Every Day!
  • Sprouts Farmers Market offers DailyPay - if you're hired as an eligible employee, you'll be able to transfer the money you've already earned at no extra cost, and get it the next business day, for free. We offer DailyPay so you don't have to wait for payday to access the money you've already worked for. With DailyPay, you can see how much you've made every day and you can transfer your money any time before payday.
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Why Sprouts

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About the Company

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Sprouts Farmers Market

It's Healthy Living for Less! An impeccable eye for what's next in nutrition. A continuous drive to go the extra mile. Sprouts Farmers Market works to deliver the best possible shopping experience, helping customers live a healthy lifestyle at an affordable price—not just buy groceries. Sprouts is a healthy grocery store offering fresh, natural and organic foods at great prices. Since 2002, we've been committed to providing our customers with the best-in-class service—and to improving it every day. This commitment has taken us from a small grocery store in Chandler, Ariz. to the leading food retailer we are today. We're proud to serve customers in 10 states with more than 190 stores. Additionally, we strive to be the ultimate healthy living resource with recipes, how-to videos, wellness webinars and compelling content on sprouts.com. Our social media sites and email subscriptions give customers exclusive access to health tips, product information, and web-only coupons for extra savings. Our money-back guarantee, online experiences and product promotions allow us to serve more customers in fresh, new ways. We believe food is an industry of innovation, and in that spirit we are flexible, adaptable and responsive. Foods change. Tastes change. Times change. But our commitment to happy, healthy customers will never change.

INDUSTRY
Food and Beverage Production
FOUNDED
2002