Manager Software Engineering, Item Master

Zulily

Benefits

zulily is a retailer obsessed with bringing our customers something special every day. Unique products from up-and-coming brands are featured alongside favorites from top brands, including clothing, home decor, accessories, toys and gifts, giving customers something new to discover each morning at an incredible price. We are fast-paced, innovative and metric-driven, with a team passionate for delighting our customers. Whether you want to work with incredible product selection, develop smart marketing plans, help us in our pursuit of faster fulfillment, or do something else awesome in between, we have a place for you. With locations in Seattle, Reno, Columbus and Bethlehem, our team is excited to be changing the way people shop every day - and we are just getting started.

Description

Did you know that over 1/3 of zulily’s items for sale change every day?  The Item Master team is responsible for the services that process all of zulily’s product catalog of over 20 million items.  We process millions of changes every day from our merchants and vendors; serving up product information worldwide for our online store, warehouses, external partners, and distribution centers.  We build our own software and have several hard problems we need solved.  The Item Master team has a direct and measurable impact on zulily’s $2B business.


We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to evolve Item Master to meet an ambitious set of goals for 2019.  You will drive the product roadmap and have strong influence over the architecture and platform vision.  One of your first assignments will be to aggressively hire and grow your team. 

 

Successful candidates are passionate about large scale distributed systems, high performance teams, and operational excellence.  You work well in translating ambiguous business goals and can resolve competing priorities from multiple business partners.

Qualifications


  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar technical filed

  • 5 years managing high performance software teams 

  • Strong analytical skills

  • Demonstrated experience aggressively recruiting and growing

  • Experience in object-oriented programming language

  • Ability to work in fast-paced environment and work creatively with ambiguous, evolving priorities

 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Advanced technical degree

  • Deep experience managing agile teams

  • Deep hands-on technical expertise; previously worked as senior software engineer

  • Experience w/Kubernetes and Docker

  • Large scale distributed architecture

  • Expert in NoSQL (eg MongoDB) and Elastic Search.

  • Experience in AWS or similar cloud providers

  • eCommerce Experience

  • Excellent written and verbal communications

zulily is an Equal Opportunity Employer

zulily participates in E-Verify. zulily will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.

Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. You may reach us at (206) 388-0920.

Primary Location

Seattle Office

Job

Technology

Job Type

Full-time

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