Manager, Engineering

About the role

The Manager, Engineering - Catalog role is at the heart of iHerb's AI transformation. This role will lead a lean, high-seniority team of engineers while staying hands-on as a player-coach. The Manager, Engineering - Catalog will own delivery commitments, grow engineers, and model the AI-native development practices that will become the standard across the engineering organization.

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.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• AI-driven SDLC (required): hands-on experience shipping production code with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor. Must be able to describe how AI changed your workflow and what guardrails you put in place.
• Full-stack orientation: comfortable contributing across layers of the stack; not specialized in only one layer. Track-specific stack requirements are listed above.
• 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

Experience Requirements

Generally requires a minimum 7-10 years of software engineering experience, with at least two years in a team lead or engineering manager role.

Education Requirements

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

Pay

The anticipated pay scale for this position can be found below, however the pay range applicable to you may vary by geographic location based on where the job is located or where you work. The final pay offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to the type and years of experience within the job, the type of years and experience within the industry, education, etc.

Benefits

Employees (and their families) that meet eligibility criteria as outlined in applicable plan documents are eligible to participate in our medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance programs and may enroll in our company’s 401(k) plan. Employees will also be eligible for Time Off and Paid Sick Leave pursuant to the company’s policies. Employees will enjoy paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility requirements for these benefits will be controlled by applicable plan documents.

About iHerb

iHerb is on a mission to make health and wellness accessible to all. We offer Earth’s best-curated selection of health and wellness products, at the best possible value, delivered with the most convenient experience.

Equal Opportunity Employer

iHerb is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.