As a
Senior Engineering Manager on the Pricing Platform team, you’ll lead software development efforts for Pricing and Offers technology initiatives through delivery. In this role, you’ll lead a team of engineers to design, develop, and launch pricing and offers management modules. This will involve understanding the current behavior of our existing pricing and offers execution system and working with product owners and business stakeholders to design an improved experience that can meet future demands. As the larger portfolio transforms to modern systems, you will help create a strategy that addresses both team structure and technology skills.
This role is hybrid, which means you will work some days on site at a Best Buy location and some days virtually from home or other non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.
For this role, you must be located within a drivable distance to our office in Richfield, Minnesota, or Atlanta, Georgia.
What you'll do
Lead and Manage team of backend-end developers and establish best-practices around agile development principles on a distributed, hybrid team.
Help teams create and optimize agile SDLC practices.
Guide teams as they create and deliver highly scalable experiences for BestBuy.com, Best Buy mobile app, and our retail store locations.
Foster an inclusive work environment, where all team members feel safe and can be at their best while at work
Partner with product leaders to find solutions for industry leading customer experiences.
Identify skills and capabilities needed on the team, and work to fill those roles by hiring and training an inclusive, diverse team.
Driving innovation on the pricing and offers capabilities that are key to our pricing and offer strategies.
Basic Qualifications
5 years of experience in enterprise application development with Bachelors’ degree; additional 2 years’ experience without BS/BA
1 year of experience managing and leading engineering teams
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in leading teams using agile engineering and planning practices such as TDD, CI/CD, emergent design, iterative development, retrospectives, etc
Experience in implementation and deployment of modern web development solutions: Java, Groovy, Spring, REST based web services, NoSQL databases
Demonstrated background working directly with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders
Experience in agile development methodology – Scrum, Kanban and/or XP
Experience in test driven development, continuous integration and deployment practices
Demonstrated ability to deliver cross-functional features
Ability to lead collaboration between engineers and product managers
Excellent communication skills, especially when working with a distributed team
Ability to triage and manage complex, production issues
Passion for staying on top of trends, experimenting with new patterns, participating in technology forums, and mentoring members of the engineering community.
4 years’ experience building e-commerce and / or web applications using Java, Spring and REST
Experience with Cassandra.
Experience with Kafka.
What’s in it for you
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
Competitive pay
Generous employee discount
Financial savings and retirement resources
Support for your physical and mental well-being
About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™