Senior Engineering Manager, DC Buying

The role

You will lead engineering for an AI-powered fresh buying product used by grocery distribution center buyers. You will own the engineering end to end and partner with product, design, data engineering, and applied science on a single roadmap.

What you will do

• Hire, develop and retain a senior team of product engineers
• Set the technical bar by reviewing architecture and managing tech debt
• Build relationships with peer engineering leaders
• Own the DC Buying roadmap with product, design and science leads
• Understand business metrics and user needs
• Make clean commitments and hit them
• Turn broad goals into scoped plans with a sequence, cost and date
• Keep leadership and partner teams aware of progress
• Own reliability, on-call health and data quality
• Build a culture where engineers and scientists own problems

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering
• 3+ years managing engineering teams
• Experience developing, scaling and supporting mission critical products in production
• Experience leading across multiple functional domains (front-end, back-end, data pipelines and applied science)
• Experience hiring, growing and managing performance on a team
• Clear, direct communication with stakeholders, executives and customers
• Comfort with ambiguity and growth-stage pressure
• Use AI-native development practices day to day

Nice to have

• Supply chain, retail or grocery experience, especially demand forecasting, replenishment or inventory optimization
• Shipped forecasting, optimization or recommendation products that operators act on every day
• Taken a product from early design partners to production at enterprise customers
• Familiarity with Python, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Databricks, Azure

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Mental health support and counseling services
• Competitive base salary
• Meaningful equity (U.S. employees)
• 401(k) program with company match
• Home office stipend
• Coworking Wallets for flexible workspace access
• Annual professional development budget
• Monthly Betterment (wellness/lifestyle) stipend
• Monthly telecommunications stipend
• Flexible paid time off

Before you apply

• This position is not eligible for company sponsorship

About the company

Afresh is an AI platform for grocery that aims to reduce food waste. The company provides AI solutions to help grocers make smarter decisions across their enterprise.