eCommerce Software Engineering Manager- Remote (Atlanta, GA area preferred)

eCommerce Software Engineering Manager

At DoMyOwn.com, there is one thing that drives our business - satisfied customers. We have an opening for an experienced eCommerce Software Engineering Manager to join the DoMyOwn team that can help deliver on this mission.

DoMyOwn, a subsidiary of Central Garden & Pet, is one of the largest online retailers of professional-grade pest control, lawn care, gardening, animal care products, and equipment. The eCommerce Engineering team at DoMyOwn focuses a suite of eCommerce technologies that support our customers and our internal teams.

The eCommerce Engineering Manager is a hands-on position, combining people leadership and developing eCommerce applications built in PHP using the Laravel framework. Successful candidates for the eCommerce Engineering Manager position will have prior success growing and developing Engineering organizations including supervising a team of full stack software engineers, planning and delivering successful projects that meet established goals, removing technical challenges preventing projects from being completed on time and within budget, and working with key stakeholders across the organization to help provide the best eCommerce experience for customers.

As the Software Engineering Manager, you will manage and motivate our team of full stack software engineers as they support these eCommerce products across websites, marketing technologies, data analytics, warehouse, supply chain technologies, and more. As the Engineering lead of a small growing team, you will be responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating software development and maintenance across our engineering development teams.

Responsibilities:

Development Excellence: Maintain software development practices that are at the highest level of excellence and are easily repeatable and scalable. Ensure development is cohesive, maintaining a bird's eye of all applications when planning and developing for new enhancements and features. Contribute to the development of new features, system enhancements, and maintenance as needed.

Continuous Improvement: Develop processes and ways of working that help the Engineering team collaborate and drive best in class results. Maintain high standards by fostering and executing on a culture of continuous improvement to confidently release products without defect including proper testing, quality assurance practices, unit testing standards, testing frameworks and tools.

Project Management: Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize, design solutions, and define timelines, budgets, scopes, and deliverables for new features, functionalities, backlogs, and defects. Ensure clear goals, project deliverables, and priorities are communicated to teams.
Oversee Production Support: Ensure we are successful and maintain a customer-centric standard of excellence pre- and post-deployment.

Organizational Development: Continue to develop and nurture the Engineering Team culture. Work with team to define and iterate on process improvements that allow for quick and accurate goal execution.

Talent Development: Utilize experience with different types of software engineering focus tracks to lead, inspire, motivate, mentor, and develop the Engineering team.

What You Bring:

• 5+ years of prior experience building ecommerce web applications
• 5+ years of prior engineering team people leadership; building, developing, and managing successful teams
• Advanced skill level in one or more object-oriented programming languages; PHP framework such as Laravel is preferred.
• Experience with Javascript frameworks such as Vue JS and Angular JS
• Experience with unit-testing, functional testing, regression, and user accepting testing
• Familiarity with PSR coding standards (PHP-FIG)
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Highly self-motivated and a self-starter
• Strong ability and desire to learn and understand new technologies, frameworks, and coding methodologies

Location:

This position is remote and can be located anywhere within the continental United States. DoMyOwn is located in the northeast Atlanta, GA metro area (Lawrenceville, GA) with Eastern Time Zone hours. Preference will be given to those living in the Atlanta metro area with a willingness to come to the Lawrenceville office on occasion.

Benefits Package and Employee Programs:

• This is an Exempt, Remote, full-time position
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Free Basic Life and Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401k with a company match
• Paid Time Off
• Employee Assistance Program
• Access to thousands of free online courses
• Education Assistance (both college degrees and professional)
• Estimated annual compensation range: Begins at $120,000. This is part of a competitive total compensation package that could include other components. Individual compensation is determined by a number of factors, including, but not limited to, a candidate's experience, location, education, skills, and other relevant business considerations. DoMyOwn also offers a generous suite of benefits.

Central Garden & Pet Company (NASDAQ: CENT) (NASDAQ: CENTA) understands that home is central to life and has proudly nurtured happy and healthy homes for over 40 years. With fiscal 2023 net sales of $3.3 billion, Central is on a mission to lead the future of the Pet and Garden industries. The Company's innovative and trusted products are dedicated to helping lawns grow greener, gardens bloom bigger, pets live healthier and communities grow stronger. Central is home to a leading portfolio of more than 65 high-quality brands including Amdro, Aqueon, Cadet, Farnam, Ferry-Morse, Four Paws, Kaytee, K&H, Nylabone and Pennington, strong manufacturing and distribution capabilities and a passionate, entrepreneurial growth culture. Central is based in Walnut Creek, California and has 6,700 employees across North America and Europe. Visit www.central.com to learn more.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law. DMO participates in e-Verify.

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