Key Responsibilities:
- Lead multiple teams responsible for software products with company-wide impacts and outcomes, in partnership with key stakeholders
- Provide strategic direction for the team and associated product area, ensuring alignment with organizational and portfolio goals
- Coach and develop managers, senior managers, and associate directors on their team who are themselves responsible for their teams and outcomes
- Ensure the quality and integrity of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for their teams and identify opportunities for improvement in how the teams work, through usage of recommended tools and practices
- Conduct 1:1s with their direct reports, and skip-level discussions for team members to assess team health, promote cohesion and camaraderie, and identify and solve issues across the organization
- Work with product teams to broadly prioritize and scope work
- Ability to triage and manage complex, high-pressure production issues
- Contribute to architecture by asking the right questions to ensure architecture matches business needs for the area
- Demonstrate a test/learn/iterate mindset, emphasizing progress over perfection
- Can connect the larger organization strategic goals directly to their team's tactical goals and can effectively communicate that to their teams
Basic Requirements:
- 12+ years of relevant experience with a bachelor’s degree OR equivalent relevant professional experience. Including:
- 6+ years of experience managing and leading engineering teams
- 1+ years of managing managers
- 2+ years of experience leading projects using React Native, React JS, Node.js and related frameworks
- 2+ years of leading teams using agile engineering and planning practices such as TDD, CI/CD, Kanban
- 3+ years of experience with designing, building and maintaining high traffic, mission critical systems
- 2+ years of experience using Java, Spring
- 2+ years of system design using Akamai, GraphQL and caching strategies
Preferred Requirements:
- Experience working in an omni-channel retail environment
- Experience working in an omni-channel retail environment
- 1+ years with any of the following:
- Integrating front end system with an AI or LLM
- Integrating front and middle tier systems with ML models
- Building personalization experiences
- Building personalization services
- Ability to build and optimize web applications and platforms in a cloud environment with a solid understanding of system design
- Ability to lead collaboration between engineers and product managers
- Excellent communication skills, especially when working with a distributed team
- Experience with NoSQL databases like Cassandra
- Ability to triage and manage complex, production issues
About Best Buy
BBY India is a service provider to Best Buy and as part of the team that will work on Best Buy projects and initiatives, you’ll help us fulfill Best Buy’s purpose to enrich lives through technology. You will bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in Best Buy stores, online and in Best Buy customers’ homes.
Best Buy is THE place where “techies” can make technology more meaningful in the lives of millions of people, to enable our purpose of enriching lives through technology. Our unique culture unleashes the power of our people and provides fast-moving, collaborative, and inclusive experiences that empower employees of all backgrounds to make a difference, learn and grow every day.
Best Buy’s culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees and other team members who make it all possible. Best Buy is committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, Best Buy aims to provide a place where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here. ™