Engineering Manager - Inventory Management Systems

Engineering Manager - Inventory Management Systems

Stitch Fix’s Warehouse Inventory Management Systems team is looking for a mindful, empathetic, and self-aware Engineering Manager. In this role, you’ll manage the team responsible for supporting and evolving our Inventory Management Systems. We build modern software with modern techniques like Test Driven Development, continuous delivery, DevOps, and service-oriented architecture. We focus on high-value projects that solve clearly identified problems and are developed sustainably. 

 

About the Role

We create tools that support the responsibility of bringing inventory into our company and moving that inventory around in our warehouses, providing the entire Stitch Fix engineering organization with stable and reliable messaging capabilities focusing on self-service platform. On this team, you will manage a team that has experience with backend technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Sidekiq, Datadog and more. The ideal candidate will be able to learn our systems while thoughtfully organizing the team around business goals and supporting team members' career growth along the way. 

 

About the Technology

Technologies we rely on to pursue solutions to business problems include:

• Go-Lang
• Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• Kafka 
• RabbitMQ
• Redis
• Postgres

• We use GitHub, Slack, and video conferencing extensively to collaborate.
• We value pull requests, one-pagers, and screencasts to develop rapid prototypes that demonstrate new features.
• Our workflow depends on testing and Continuous Integration—we rely on automated tests and deployment.
• We have a distributed, service-oriented architecture—we’re using tools like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, REST services, and GraphQL to scale our team and software.

 

You’re excited about this opportunity because...

• You will ship features that will support our distribution centers and ultimately delight our clients.
• You will plan and support career development for the members of your team.
• You will inspire and grow your team through mentorship, empowerment, and by challenging them to do their best work.
• You will partner with business partners, product management and design to help set priorities and plan the roadmap for your team.
• You will find, hire, and develop great humans that compliment each other as a team.
• You will facilitate technical design discussions, remove blockers and align stakeholders.
• You will drive programs in engineering reliability, productivity, process, and quality.
• You will recruit and retain best-in-class engineering talent to build a diverse high performing team.
• You will inspire an atmosphere of continuous improvement by serving as a coach, mentor, and technical advisor.

 

We are excited about you because... 

• You have 1-2+ years of leading and managing high-performance engineering teams
• You have experience running teams in an Agile environment.
• You have previously managed remote teams. We use GitHub, Slack, Jira and video conferencing extensively to collaborate.
• You are flexible, dedicated, and curious.
• You believe in the craft of software engineering, but are pragmatic when necessary.
• You have a passion for mentoring and coaching engineers.
• You have a track record of delivering features and functionality on time with high quality.
• You have excellent communication skills.

• You might have experience working on leading e-commerce websites.

• You might have experience working with software to support supply chain and distribution centers

 

You'll love working at Stitch Fix because we...

• Are a successful, vibrant, fast-growing company.
• Are a technologically and data-driven business.
• Are at the forefront of tech and fashion, redefining shopping for the next generation.
• Are passionate about our clients and live/breathe the client experience.
• Get to be creative every day.
• Have a smart, experienced, and diverse leadership team that wants to do it right & is open to new ideas.
• Believe in autonomy & taking initiative.
• Full support for remote work—and you get to visit our SF office every few months to connect with your peers and partners.
• Offer transparent, equitable, and competitive compensation based on your level to help eliminate bias in salaries, as well as equity and comprehensive health benefits.
• Are serious about our commitment to life-work balance, and have generous parental le