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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Development Manager - **Company:** Llc (card) - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $185,000.0 - $210,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), PHP (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, Laravel, MySQL, Nginx, Open Web Application Security, Scrum Methodology, Software Architecture, Recommender Systems, Robotic Automation Software, Secure Coding, Software Construction, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Information Technology, Web Technologies, Front End Software Development, Api Design - **Published:** June 20, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b4d8bbc8456ebe43 ## About the Role Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * 10+ years building software, including 3+ years at a senior level as an individual contributor - enough technical depth to comfortably coach engineers up to the senior level. (You won't need to out-engineer our Principals; you'll partner with them.) * 3-5+ years managing and growing software engineering teams; demonstrated ability to lead engineers more technically expert than yourself. * Strong e-commerce domain experience - building and operating customer-facing commerce services such as catalog, search, cart, checkout, account management, inventory, and shipping. * A track record of decomposing large, ambiguous programs and delivering them predictably and incrementally against a roadmap. * Experience estimating and forecasting work with ranges and real delivery data - and the judgment to know which metrics help a team improve and which just get gamed. * Hands-on fluency with generative-AI tooling for software development, and experience starting to enable a team in its responsible use. * Experience operating live, business-critical systems - on-call, incident response, postmortems - in partnership with a platform/DevOps function. * Strong knowledge of software architecture, modern design patterns, API design, distributed systems, and secure development practices. * Strong knowledge of modern web technologies. Our stack is PHP/Laravel, MySQL, NGINX, and Elasticsearch behind modern JavaScript/TypeScript front-ends - depth in a comparable stack translates well. * Enough front-end fluency to hold a high bar for responsive, performant, accessible (WCAG), SEO-friendly experiences - comfortable in the world of modern front-end frameworks, component-driven development, and design-system thinking. * Excellent communication and collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders. * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience. Nice to have * Experience with search/discovery, personalization, or recommendation systems at e-commerce scale. * Familiarity with AWS and with security practices like OWASP ## Description Technical leadership & stewardship * Bring senior-level engineering depth to evaluate designs, challenge architecture, and keep your team's technical decisions sound - partnering with and amplifying the Principal Engineer(s) who author our technical direction. * Steward our engineering standards: drive consistency in patterns, conventions, and practices across your team (including contractors and vendors), treating deviations as deliberate, reviewed exceptions. * Hold a high bar for the customer experience - performance, responsiveness, accessibility (WCAG), and SEO - and coach engineers to build to it. * Raise your team's effective, responsible use of generative-AI tooling for software development, within our approved tools and policies - and help mature those standards as they evolve. Operational ownership * Own the operational health of cardkingdom.com's live systems under a "you build it, you run it" model - your team operates what it builds, in partnership with our DevOps team who provide infrastructure and platform patterns. * Establish your team's on-call rotation and ensure the team can support what it builds; lead incident response within our engineering-wide incident management process - consistent across teams, and one you'll help shape - and run blameless postmortems that drive systemic fixes. * Own the business impact of reliability - for the storefront, downtime and slow pages are lost revenue - and balance operational load against feature delivery so neither is starved. Delivery & predictable execution * Give leadership honest, range-based estimates early, and tighten them with real data from completed work as delivery progresses. * Decompose large, ambiguous initiatives - including year-plus programs - into incrementally shippable capabilities with clear milestones and acceptance criteria. * Build a culture of accountability: coach engineers to lean in, estimate under ambiguity, own their commitments, and follow through - moving the team from "I can't estimate that yet" to "here's my best estimate and the assumptions behind it." * Work within our delivery structure (quarterly planning, a longer-term roadmap, Scrum ceremonies), upholding it consistently while helping improve it over time; surface slippage early and re-plan transparently. People leadership & talent * Coach and mentor engineers across our ladder; assess where each person sits and build concrete growth paths - including managing the Principal Engineer with the maturity to own their growth and advocacy while deferring to them technically. * Own hiring for your team; give direct, timely feedback; address underperformance; make performance and compensation decisions in partnership with the VP of Engineering. * Onboard and direct contractors/vendors who temporarily augment the team, holding them to the same standards; set a culture of quality, accountability, and sustainable pace. Business & cross-functional partnership * Partner with Product Management, design, and internal business customers - supplying trustworthy feasibility, estimation, and sequencing input they use to shape and prioritize the roadmap, and helping shape "the art of the possible" for the customer experience. * Translate business goals into technical execution and surface technical realities (cost, risk, trade-offs) back to the business in terms they can act on. * Collaborate with peer engineering teams - including our Back-of-House (warehouse, ERP, and customer service systems) and Robotics Automation teams - to align on shared systems and dependencies like inventory, orders, and fulfillment. ## Related Videos - [Navigating the Corporate Jungle: Life as a Developer in a large Company](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/621-navigating-the-corporate-jungle-life-as-a-developer-in-a-large-company) - [Post-Quantum Cryptography: Preparing for Q-Day](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100179-post-quantum-cryptography-preparing-for-q-day) - [MySQL Protocol Features You Should Be Aware Of](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100267-mysql-protocol-features-you-should-be-aware-of) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Web development best practices in 2021](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/280-web-development-best-practices-in-2021) - [Streaming AI Responses in Real-Time with SSE in Next.js & NestJS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1630-streaming-ai-responses-in-real-time-with-sse-in-next-js-nestjs) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [7 Most Popular Web Developer Jobs in Europe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/163-7-most-popular-web-developer-jobs-in-europe) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated)