Senior Manager Software Engineering

Overview

Leads a large, multi-discipline engineering team responsible for a defined product, service, or platform domain. Owns team objectives, delivery priorities, and operating plans with a timeframe of at least one year; develops team leads and senior engineers; and partners with Principal and senior technical leaders to set architecture, engineering practices, and delivery across disciplines.

The role reports to our Store Support Office in Phoenix, AZ, with a hybrid work arrangement requiring in-office presence Tuesday through Thursday.

Overview of Responsibilities

• Lead the design, delivery, operation, and continuous improvement of a defined product, service, or platform domain across disciplines and sub-teams.
• Establish multi-quarter team goals, delivery priorities, and operating plans; contribute to department planning and own operational results.
• Lead, direct, and review the work of engineering professionals and team leads across software, data, quality, ML/AI, and reliability disciplines.
• Coach and develop team leads and senior engineers; partner with Principal and senior technical leaders to set architecture, engineering standards, and cross-discipline delivery.
• Review architecture and major technical decisions to assess tradeoffs; review code as needed.
• Improve engineering processes, systems, and team practices across the assigned domain.
• Explain technical and delivery decisions and gain cooperation from Product, Design, Data, and senior leadership.
• Hire, onboard, develop, and manage performance and succession in accordance with company guidelines.
• Serve as the escalation point for incident response and corrective actions across the assigned domain.
• Own headcount planning, build the team-lead layer, and recommend structure changes as the organization grows.
• Manage vendor and co-build partner relationships and deliverables.

Qualifications

Knowledge Skills & Abilities

• 7+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including hands-on experience prior to moving into people leadership.
• People-leadership experience managing team leads or senior engineers across software, data, quality, ML/AI, and site reliability disciplines, or leading a team of ten or more.
• Track record owning a product, platform, or multi-service engineering domain end to end.
• Production proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, or TypeScript.
• Knowledge of cloud-native engineering, Kubernetes, containers, and CI/CD practices.
• Ability to review code and architecture and resolve difficult issues involving related systems or job areas.
• Experience with work prioritization, multi-quarter delivery and resource planning, coaching, and process execution.
• Experience with hiring, performance management, promotion, and reward recommendations in accordance with company guidelines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior individual-contributor experience at the Senior or Staff Software Engineer level.
• Working knowledge of agentic AI or large language model service architecture.
• Retail or merchandising technology experience.
• Experience managing vendor or co-build partner engagements.

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.

You can learn more by visiting https://www.dailypay.com/partners/sprouts-farmers-market/.

Why Sprouts

Grow with us!

If you have a passion for inspiring people and a flair for fresh food, consider applying for a job at Sprouts! With a focus on customer service, our neighborhood grocery stores offer high-quality, farm fresh produce, natural meats, plenty of scoop-your-own bulk goods and much more in a fun, friendly, old-fashioned farmer’s market setting. Come grow your career in healthy living with a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and teams that pride themselves on empowering others along their journey.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and requirements. Sprouts’ management reserves the right to amend and change duties, responsibilities, and requirements to meet business and organizational needs as necessary.

Sprouts will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance.

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Knowledge Skills & Abilities

• 7+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including hands-on experience prior to moving into people leadership.
• People-leadership experience managing team leads or senior engineers across software, data, quality, ML/AI, and site reliability disciplines, or leading a team of ten or more.
• Track record owning a product, platform, or multi-service engineering domain end to end.
• Production proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, or TypeScript.
• Knowledge of cloud-native engineering, Kubernetes, containers, and CI/CD practices.
• Ability to review code and architecture and resolve difficult issues involving related systems or job areas.
• Experience with work prioritization, multi-quarter delivery and resource planning, coaching, and process execution.
• Experience with hiring, performance management, promotion, and reward recommendations in accordance with company guidelines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior individual-contributor experience at the Senior or Staff Software Engineer level.
• Working knowledge of agentic AI or large language model service architecture.
• Retail or merchandising technology experience.
• Experience managing vendor or co-build partner engagements.

Core Competencies

• Customer Focus
• Communication
• Driving for Results
• Coaching and Developing Others
• Leading Change
• Lead the design, delivery, operation, and continuous improvement of a defined product, service, or platform domain across disciplines and sub-teams.
• Establish multi-quarter team goals, delivery priorities, and operating plans; contribute to department planning and own operational results.
• Lead, direct, and review the work of engineering professionals and team leads across software, data, quality, ML/AI, and reliability disciplines.
• Coach and develop team leads and senior engineers; partner with Principal and senior technical leaders to set architecture, engineering standards, and cross-discipline delivery.
• Review architecture and major technical decisions to assess tradeoffs; review code as needed.
• Improve engineering processes, systems, and team practices across the assigned domain.
• Explain technical and delivery decisions and gain cooperation from Product, Design, Data, and senior leadership.
• Hire, onboard, develop, and manage performance and succession in accordance with company guidelines.
• Serve as the escalation point for incident response and corrective actions across the assigned domain.
• Own headcount planning, build the team-lead layer, and recommend structure changes as the organization grows.
• Manage vendor and co-build partner relationships and deliverables.