Engineering Manager, Merchandising

Summary

Join Afresh, a company dedicated to eliminating food waste and improving fresh food accessibility, as an Engineering Manager leading the Merchandising team. This critical role involves developing insights, products, and systems to optimize grocery operations and minimize waste. You will manage and mentor a team, collaborate with cross-functional partners, guide system architecture, and foster a collaborative culture. The position requires experience leading full-stack engineering teams and collaborating with various stakeholders. You will contribute to the company's mission of reducing food waste through impactful software solutions.

Requirements

• Have management experience leading full-stack engineering teams across back-end, data, and front-end domains with prior engineering and leadership experience with scalable backend and data systems
• Have experience collaborating with Product, Design, and customer-facing functions with a keen focus on customer and business outcomes
• Have executed with a team in a fast-moving environment
• Have experience hiring, growing, and developing teams, and you thrive on helping your team reach their full potential and foster a culture of collaboration and inclusion
• Balance technical expertise with a strong understanding of business goals
• Excel at managing complex projects and ensuring alignment across teams, functions, and disparate stakeholders
• Be eager to learn and continuously improve yourself, your team, and the organization you are a part of

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor a team of cross-functional engineers, fostering growth, collaboration, and engineering best practices
• Define and communicate the team’s goals and roadmap, by balancing meeting short-term customer needs with long-term strategic product and engineering goals
• Partner with product managers, data scientists, and other Afresh stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions to the Afresh corporate customers
• Guide system architecture and technical design, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability
• Evaluate and manage third-party tools and platforms that support initiatives within the Merchandising team
• Create operational maturity in the team using metrics and data to support design-making and measure success
• Be a culture carrier for Afresh. Set the tone for your team as a proactive, positive, and candid leader who thrives in solving hard challenges and motivates their team to do the same
• Work closely with other engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of insights and other merchandising tools into Afresh’s broader platform
• Identify opportunities to improve development processes, tooling, and team efficiency across engineering
• Continuously improve our service quality, and support the team with on-call and incident resolution
• Explore and implement advanced technologies and methodologies to improve Afresh capabilities

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building analytics products and systems

Benefits

Remote work