Software Engineering Manager, Ecommerce

$130,000 - $160,000/Yr

Colgate-Palmolive - Piscataway, NJ

Full-time - Manager

Piscataway, NJ

Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods

About the position

The Software Engineering Manager at Colgate-Palmolive will lead global Direct to Consumer (DTC) initiatives, guiding agile scrum teams in the development of web applications that support both internal and external clients. This role involves strategic design decisions, mentoring junior developers, and ensuring the integration of business processes into comprehensive end-to-end solutions.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and develop web applications to support internal and external clients and stakeholders.
• Lead and collaborate with a team of developers to design end-to-end systems and solutions, ensuring alignment with the roadmap and seamless integration with platform components.
• Rapidly prototype new ideas, optimize applications for speed and scalability, and support ongoing development of existing applications.
• Document development processes, conduct peer reviews, provide actionable feedback, and improve test coverage of existing code bases.
• Manage and maintain data models while identifying and championing opportunities to use new technologies and processes.
• Mentor junior developers, encouraging their growth and development within the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, Engineering or similar degree.
• 6+ years' experience developing and deploying end to end web applications.
• 3+ years of experience with full product life cycle releases.
• Current on industry trends and emerging DTC technologies and commerce platforms (e.g., Shopify).
• Proficiency in web technologies (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, or Angular).
• Experience with relational database technologies, data modeling, and optimizing/scaling code in production environments.
• Familiarity with developing applications on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization (Docker or Kubernetes).
• Strong understanding of Git version control, security best practices, and test-driven development methodologies.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of event-driven systems, streaming analytics, and distributed systems.
• Expertise in Shopify development, including custom theme development, app integrations, and API utilization (e.g., REST, GraphQL).
• Working on Agile/SCRUM development teams.
• Static and dynamic analyses toolsets.
• Use of user centric design and improving user experience concepts.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life Insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment and Disability insurance plans.
• 401(k) plan with company matching contributions.
• Minimum of 15 days of vacation/PTO leave annually.
• Minimum of 13 paid/floating holidays annually.
• Minimum of 40 hours of paid sick leave annually.
• Up to eight weeks of paid parental leave and 12 weeks of unpaid leave.