The Role:This opportunity has arisen due to the expansion of our software engineering organization. This is a senior people leadership role in our engineering organization, with the title of Senior Software Engineering Manager, Supervisory Control Platform. This role is accountable for software delivery execution, team leadership, engineering process maturity, and cross-functional alignment for the platform.
You lead software teams responsible for delivering the platform, including software design and development for the full AutoStore SW platform and end-to-end connectivity from on-premise systems to cloud services. The role ensures clear priorities, predictable execution, high-quality engineering practices, and effective collaboration across Product, Architecture, Controls, Cloud, and integration partners.
This role reports to the SVP of Software Engineering and partners with Controls teams, Warehouse Execution and Management Software teams, Product, and integration partners.
Key responsibilities:- Lead, coach, and develop software engineers and team leads; build a high-performing team culture with clear ownership, accountability, and growth plans.
- Own delivery planning, prioritization, execution tracking, and risk management across platform initiatives, ensuring commitments are realistic, visible, and delivered with quality.
- Establish and improve planning, estimation, sprint execution, release readiness, quality gates, and operational review processes.
- Partner with Product, Architecture, Controls, QA, DevOps, and customer-facing teams to align roadmap priorities, dependencies, integration plans, and delivery milestones.
- Drive disciplined execution across requirements clarity, technical readiness, test coverage, release planning, defect management, and production readiness.
- Oversee software design, development, and execution for the AutoStore platform, ensuring scalable architecture, clear engineering ownership, and alignment with product and customer deployment needs.
- Lead execution for secure, reliable, and observable connectivity between on-premise warehouse systems and cloud-based platform services, including integration, deployment, and operational readiness considerations.
- Work closely with architects and senior engineers to ensure technical direction, design decisions, and engineering standards are understood, planned, and executed effectively by the teams.
Key Qualifications:- At least 10+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in a software development management or engineering leadership role.
- Proven experience managing software teams responsible for complex platform, middleware, distributed systems, or operational software delivery.
- Strong track record in execution management, delivery planning, dependency management, engineering process improvement, and stakeholder communication.
- Experience leading teams that deliver APIs, integration contracts, backend services, or platform capabilities across independently owned systems.
- Experience with cloud platforms and hybrid architecture, including secure connectivity between on-premise systems and cloud services, is required.
- Ability to balance technical depth, people leadership, execution discipline, and business priorities in a fast-paced engineering environment.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Preferred Qualifications:- Warehouse automation / robotics / intralogistics background (WES/WMS/WCS, AutoStore, ASRS, or comparable).
- Experience managing teams working across independently owned software and control-system components.
- Track record improving team execution, engineering processes, delivery predictability, and release quality at scale.
- Warehouse logistics, automation, or intralogistics domain experience (ideally with 2-3 years of relevant exposure).
Competencies- Strong technical understanding of distributed systems, control-platform architecture, APIs, messaging, data contracts, fault tolerance, and performance-sensitive software design.
- Experience leading teams using modern programming languages, platforms, and engineering practices relevant to control systems, orchestration layers, middleware, or large-scale backend services.
- Hands-on understanding of cloud platforms, hybrid connectivity patterns, CI/CD, observability, DevOps, testing automation, and release management practices relevant to platform delivery and operations.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills. Comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Strategic thinking with a bias toward action and results.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Skilled in balancing people leadership, technical depth, execution discipline, and big-picture thinking to guide teams through delivery trade-offs and scaling challenges.
- Experience representing engineering in planning, quarterly business reviews, strategy sessions, and delivery governance forums.
Location - Atlanta, USAWe Offer: AutoStore believes in taking care of employees and is dedicated to providing a supportive and rewarding work environment. Join us in our mission to store and move things for everyone, everywhere.
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
- Generous Paid Time Off including 12 holidays, paid exercise time, paid volunteer time, and paid parental leave plans for all new parents
- Retirement 401(k) plan with employer match and discretionary profit sharing contribution
- Educational assistance and professional development programs, including mentorship/coaching programs with external industry leaders
- Additional benefits include Group Life Insurance, Voluntary Additional Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, Employee Assistance programs, and more!
