Manager, Engineering

About the role

The Manager, Engineering - Catalog role is pivotal in iHerb's AI transformation. This role leads a lean, high-seniority team of engineers, ensuring they stay hands-on as players and coaches. The Manager is responsible for delivering the product catalog platform, overseeing feature delivery across a full-stack codebase, coordinating with product and design, and setting the technical bar for the team.

Responsibilities

• Own sprint planning, delivery commitments, and retrospectives for the Catalog team.
• Carry an active IC load: writing, reviewing, and shipping full-stack production code weekly using AI-assisted tooling.
• Partner with the Principal Engineer, Catalog on architectural direction and the platform roadmap.
• Hire and onboard engineers; enforce a high AI-native bar in interviews.
• Drive collaboration with product managers and design without waiting for top-down coordination.
• Contribute improvements back to the shared AI-driven SDLC golden path and skills library.

Requirements

• AI-driven SDLC (required): hands-on experience shipping production code with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor.
• Full-stack orientation: comfortable contributing across layers of the stack; not specialized in only one layer.
• Delivery ownership: track record of owning commitments end-to-end, from scoping through shipping and retrospectives.
• Engineering excellence: strong opinions on code quality, testing strategy, CI/CD, and what it means to ship production-grade software at speed.
• People leadership: experience hiring, onboarding, and growing engineers; able to give direct, constructive feedback.
• Communication: clear written and verbal communicator; comfortable driving alignment across product, design, and peer engineering teams.
• Production experience with one or more backend languages used at iHerb: C#/.NET, Go, Python, or Java. .NET/C# is the primary stack today and is strongly preferred.
• React or equivalent modern frontend framework.
• Relational database experience with MS SQL Server or Postgres.
• Ability to contribute across the full stack, backend through frontend, not just one layer.
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Excellent organization skills and ability to multi-task.

Preferred Background

• In e-commerce, retail tech, or high-traffic consumer platforms.
• Experience working in globally distributed teams.
• Contributions to internal developer tooling, platform frameworks, or SDLC process improvements at org scale.

Equipment Knowledge

• Knowledge Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Experience with Google Business Suite (Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms) preferred.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred, or a combination of education and equivalent work experience.

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Work Environment

• Hectic, fast-paced with multi-level distractions.
• Professional, yet casual work environment.
• Office / Warehouse environment.
• Ability to work extended hours as required.

Compensation

The expected salary range for this role is $187,000.00 - $235,000.00 USD. The actual base pay offered will be determined by factors such as the candidate's relevant experience, education, geographic location, and internal equity.