Engineering Manager - Inventory Management Systems

About the Team

Stitch Fix’s Warehouse Inventory Management Systems (IMS) team is looking for a mindful, empathetic, and self-aware Engineering Manager. In this role, you’ll manage the team responsible for evolving and transforming our Inventory Management Systems as SaaS across our fulfillment network. 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 platforms. 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... 

• We are a group of bright, kind people who are motivated by challenge. We value integrity, innovation and trust. You’ll bring these characteristics to life in everything you do at Stitch Fix.
• We cultivate a community of diverse perspectives— all voices are heard and valued.
• We are an innovative company and leverage our strengths in fashion and tech to disrupt the future of retail.
• We win as a team, commit to our work, and celebrate grit together because we value strong relationships.
• We boldly create the future while keeping equity and sustainability at the center of all that we do.
• We are the owners of our work and are energized by solving problems through a growth mindset lens. We think broadly and creatively through every situation to create meaningful impact.
• We offer comprehensive compensation packages and inclusive health and wellness benefits.

ABOUT STITCH FIX

At Stitch Fix, we’re about personal styling for everybody and we believe in both a service and a workplace where you can be your best, most authentic self. We’re the first fashion retailer to combine technology and data science with the human instinct of a Stylist to deliver a deeply personalized shopping experience. This novel juxtaposition attracts a highly diverse group of talented people who are both thinkers and doers. This results in a simple, yet powerful offering to our customers and a successful, growing business serving millions of men, women and kids throughout the US. We believe we are only scratching the surface on our opportunity, and we’re looking for incredible people like you to help us carry on that trend.