Manager Technology, Mobile at Williams-Sonoma in San Francisco, CA

The Williams-Sonoma eCommerce Engineering organization is seeking an energetic and talented Manager Software Engineering, Mobile to help deliver high-value, high-quality features to our industry-leading eCommerce sites. At Williams-Sonoma, we build 6 of the retail industries leading websites -- Williams-Sonoma, west elm, Mark and Graham, and the Pottery Barn family. Engineers working at WSI get to work across the entire functional domain. The full-stack engineer will work to extend our beautiful front-end user experience all the way through to enterprise services that support personalization, order management, and other server-side features.

Overview of the Manager, Software Engineering Role

As a Software Engineering Manager for Mobile apps, you'll manage Scrum teams engaged in multiple initiatives, including enhancements to native iOS app layers, android app layers, API layers respectively.

Responsibilities

· Attract, select, and retain critical talent for the team

· Coach team members in coding and development skills

· Provide clear, specific goals to the team and communicate performance feedback regularly through regular 1-1 meeting and performance reviews

· Participate as a member of the engineering leadership in setting and executing strategy for the team

· Facilitate Communities-of-Practice in critical technologies

· Facilitate and encourage continuous education efforts for your team both on key technologies and also the Williams-Sonoma business domain

· Estimate development effort, perform resource allocation and plan implementations and system rollouts

· Assist in continually improving the Engineering organization and making it a great place to work

· Develop a solid understanding of critical systems and processes

· Guide and counsel engineers on Williams-Sonoma Inc. policies and procedures

· Partner with Product and program management teams to define and track roadmaps, deliverables, and joint trade-off decisions

Criteria

· Demonstrated experience leading successful development efforts

· Experience inspiring and motivating people to fulfill their potential

· Ability to promote teamwork and establish a foundation of trust among team members

· An understanding of, and enthusiasm for, SCRUM management techniques

· Highly knowledgeable and skilled in software development practices and techniques including but not limited to-

o Code reviews and adherence to standards

o Automated unit and integration testing

· Expert skills in several of the following:

o Direct experience developing scalable mobile applications both in a native and hybrid form

o Mobile Information Architecture, including backward compatibility, instrumentation, analytics

o Strong command of swift, xCode, Kotlin, Java, flutter

o Good understanding of large-scale NodeJs, Vue.JS platform development

o Comfortable working on the server-side and/or deeply collaborating with backend teams

o Working knowledge of native app performance and optimization techniques

o Good web security knowledge (Cross-Site Scripting, SQL Injection, Input Validation)

o Ability to review and critique proposed designs and offer thoughtful feedback in a collegial fashion

o Skilled in writing and presenting -- able to craft needed messages, so they are clearly expressed and easily understood.

· Bachelor's degree -- or foreign equivalent -- in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or eight years of progressively responsible experience in software development

· 3+ year of supervisory experience preferred