Manager, Software Engineering

We Court Perfection. Working at Kohl's means you get better at what you already do well. We consistently focus on delivering value to our stakeholders with high-quality, reliable, and more maintainable technical solutions. We set up regular retrospectives to figure out what we’re doing wrong so we can fix it, and what we’re doing right so we can improve on it. And we believe that methodical, steady, relentless forward momentum drives consistent results.

What you will be doing...

• Drives development, testing, deployments, and iterative improvement of product capabilities and features in collaboration with peers across Design, Product Management, and Engineering
• Leverages critical thinking, experimentation, data, and industry best practices to implement desired business outcomes
• Develops high-quality applications that are secure, easy to operate, difficult to break, and extremely observable with measurable results.
• Responsible for all technical aspects of the product application lifecycle including, code, infrastructure, data, security, and CICD
• Establishes product engineering and software standards
• Sets vision and drives cultural transformation within the team and across the organization
• Leads technical initiatives across the organization
• Utilizes technical background to coach others through empathy and hands-on mentoring
• Manages a small group of engineers while embedded on a team as an individual contributor
• Balances time between individual contribution and management
• Acquires, retains, and develops top and diverse talent

What we are looking for...

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field
• 6+ years of experience in software development
• 2+ years of progressive management experience, developing and attracting diverse teams
• Proven ability to manage multiple competing priorities
• Successful transformation of technical leadership into people leadership
• Advanced in-depth knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database schemas, and testing strategies
• Demonstrated experience with large scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning
• Demonstrated experience working with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• Advanced in-depth knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment, and test-driven development
• Experience building software integrations in a SaaS environment.
• Ability to leverage pre-built integrations, cloud adapters, connections, SaaS applications in the solution.