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# Manager Software Engineering

- **Company:** Sprouts Farmers Market
- **Location:** Phoenix, AZ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Engineering, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Agentic-AI, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/us2b9c9f57489a737f081ce04714a846b0/eaa

## About the Role

* 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including hands-on experience prior to moving into people leadership.
 * People-leadership experience managing and coaching software engineering professionals.
 * Track record owning a service, product, platform, or 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, delivery planning, sprint execution, coaching, and process execution.
 * Experience with hiring, performance management, promotion, and reward recommendations in accordance with company guidelines., * Prior individual-contributor experience at the Senior or Staff Software Engineer level.
 * Experience working across software, data, quality, ML/AI, and site reliability disciplines.
 * Working knowledge of agentic AI or large language model service architecture.
 * Retail or merchandising technology experience.

Core Competencies

 * Customer Focus
 * Communication
 * Driving for Results
 * Coaching and Developing Others
 * Leading Change

## Description

Leads the day-to-day delivery and operations of an engineering team responsible for a defined product, service, or platform domain. Establishes short-term team goals, delivery priorities, and operating plans; coaches team members; and partners with Principal and senior technical leaders to coordinate 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 engineering product, service, or platform domain.
 * Establish short-term team goals, delivery priorities, sprint plans, and accountability for operational results.
 * Lead, direct, and review the work of software engineering professionals to accomplish defined departmental objectives.
 * Coach direct reports and partner with Principal and senior technical leaders on architecture, engineering standards, and cross-discipline delivery.
 * Review code and architecture as needed to assess tradeoffs and unblock decisions within the assigned domain.
 * Improve engineering processes, systems, and team practices within the assigned job area.
 * Explain technical and delivery decisions and gain cooperation from Product, Design, Data, and other partner teams.
 * Hire, onboard, develop, and manage performance in accordance with company guidelines.
 * Lead incident response and corrective actions for the assigned team and domain.
 * Identify emerging leadership or capacity needs and recommend changes to team structure as the organization grows., 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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