Engineering Manager, Commerce Solutions

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Engineering Manager owning architecture, delivery, and roadmap for Nexcess Commerce Solutions. Leading AI-assisted engineering for WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, and managed cloud applications.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the architecture design, delivery, and roadmap for one engineering team
  • Partner with Product to shape, scope, commit to, and deliver the roadmap
  • Own engineering outcomes for Commerce Solutions' WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, and other application stacks
  • Own automation, tooling, and images that keep applications current and safe to upgrade
  • Build understanding of customers, architecture, dependencies, integrations, and operational risks
  • Ensure long-term health and evolution of owned products
  • Write specifications, review pull requests, and ship production changes
  • Run and drive adoption of the AI harness, agentic tooling, specification-first workflows, automated pull-request review, and reusable skills
  • Scope and estimate monthly work, identify unknowns, establish cut lines, and report status honestly
  • Clear cross-team engineering dependencies before they block delivery
  • Improve DORA performance by reducing review latency, build time, environment issues, handoffs, and approval loops
  • Require tests with every change, coverage gating on changed code, and evidence in pull requests
  • Own release go/no-go decisions based on evidence
  • Hold one-to-ones, maintain growth plans, provide direct feedback, and grow engineers
  • Own hiring end to end
  • Operate a fair on-call rotation, close incident actions, remove toil, and eliminate single points of failure
  • Take a turn on the team's on-call rotation

Requirements:

  • 7+ years in software engineering, including at least one year leading engineers formally or informally
  • Hands-on technical fluency in PHP, Vue, and React
  • Experience with WordPress
  • Experience with GitHub Automation
  • Experience with unit and integration testing
  • Currently hands-on; shipped code recently and able to review AI-generated code
  • Real, hands-on AI-assisted engineering experience with quantifiable impact
  • Evidence of making a team measurably faster using DORA numbers or an equivalent
  • Experience delivering and modernizing software to committed dates
  • Experience with collaborative scoping and data-driven forecasting
  • Experience operating a production on-call rotation
  • Experience owning hiring end to end and holding a hiring bar
  • Experience leading engineers across time zones
  • Experience in managed hosting, cloud, or another high-availability service business

Benefits:

  • Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties
  • Works in a traditional climate controlled office environment or from home