Be the reason

Manager, Software Engineering

Staples is business to business. You’re what binds us together.

Our digital solutions team is more than a traditional IT organization. We are a team of passionate, collaborative, agile, inventive, customer-centric, results-oriented problem solvers. We are intellectually curious, love advancements in technology and seek to adapt technologies to drive Staples forward. We anticipate the needs of our customers and business partners and deliver reliable, customer-centric technology services.

What you’ll be doing:

• Bring large-scale system design and architectural expertise to the team.
• Promote and instill best practices in software product engineering development.
• Ensure design meets requirement and deliver high quality work on tight schedules.
• Instill best practices in recruiting, interviewing, and mentoring excellent team of engineers.
• Define product roadmaps, suggest new initiatives, and present software solutions to business problems.
• Manage Software and Data Engineers.

What you bring to the table:

• Prior experience in building greenfield software products – inception to launch and beyond.
• Servant-leader who has built autonomous teams and grew the teams to operate at scale.
• Excellent programming skills and computer science fundamentals (OO Design, data structures & algorithms, problem solving).
• Experience building applications on one or more public Cloud Platform (e.g., Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Experience designing and implementing highly reliable, fault-tolerant distributed applications with a heavy emphasis on low-latency and scale.
• Demonstrated success in designing large scale big data systems that perform complex event processing.

What’s needed- Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field OR equivalent work experience.
• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including management of team and direct staff.

What’s needed- Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree preferred.

We Offer:

• Inclusive culture with associate-led Business Resource Groups
• Flexible PTO (22 days) and Holiday Schedule
• Online and Retail Discounts, Company Match 401(k), Physical and Mental Health Wellness programs, and more!

At Staples, “inclusion” is an action word. It represents what we do to ensure that all employees feel valued and supported to contribute to their fullest potential. When we operate inclusively, diversity naturally follows. This is why we work hard to foster an inclusive culture, as we seek employees with unique and varied perspectives and areas of expertise. The result is a better workplace and innovative thinking that helps us exceed our customers’ expectations -- through the power of the people behind our iconic brand.

Staples is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.