Software Engineering Manager

Key Duties And Responsibilities

• Capable of leading and mentoring multiple scrum teams of engineers to successfully design, develop, and deliver engineering solutions.
• Leads teams of engineers, including offshore resources, on assigned engineering projects by providing clear direction, relevant documentation, and practical guidance.
• Have a passion for hands-on coding, defining product backlog and putting the customer first and delivering an exceptional experience through the creation of extensible and re-usable products & services.
• Innovation, assessing requirements that are said and unsaid, performing proof of concept, developing solution and code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders.
• Mentor engineering team members on technical decision making, code reviews and enforcing engineering practices and standards.
• Identifying short- and long-term solutions and timeline; reviewing and providing feedback for proposed solutions; and performing design and code reviews of changes.
• Actively engages in product and business discussions with a technical eye for feasibility and adherence/defining overall roadmaps and architectural strategy.
• Focus on improving current software development practices, standards and regulations.
• Research new technologies to support 7-Eleven’s digital transformation vision.
• Fully familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies and development practices.

Basic Qualifications

• Education: Bachelors/4 Yr Degree
• Years of Relevant Work Experience: 10+ years
• Years of Management Experience: 3+
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering.
• Experience in payments and retail domain is a plus.
• Technical Breadth with multiple Disciplines: Software engineering, Integration, Data Security, Cloud etc.
• SAFe Agile experience: from design through development, testing, implementation, production, and support.
• Hands-on Development skills and usage of Key Technologies – Java, React, NoSQL, DynamoDB. REST-based applications development; Spring Framework; APIs, JavaScript, DevOps CI&CD
• Solid understanding of Enterprise architecture, microservices and event driven architecture.
• Experience building systems to handle large volume of transactions at scale.
• Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to take initiative, independently drive work to completion, and execute with a strong sense of ownership and urgency.
• Demonstrates ownership and accountability responding to production support issues with urgency and driving timely resolution.
• Mentor and develop junior engineers by providing technical guidance, fostering sound decision-making, and promoting ownership and accountability for building and operating scalable services and applications.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to clearly convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and quickly troubleshoot and resolve issues in complex software applications.
• Stays on the leading edge of software development tools and best practices.
• Self-directed with a start-up, entrepreneur mindset.