Manager, Digital Engineering- job post

Overview:
Foot Locker, Inc. is seeking a hands-on engineering leader with deep technical expertise to drive innovation in our Bag and Checkout product team. In this role, you’ll lead and mentor a dedicated group of engineers while actively contributing to the codebase—breaking ground on complex features, removing technical blockers, and setting best practices. You’ll be pivotal in delivering scalable solutions that power seamless checkout experiences across web and mobile, ensuring performance, reliability, and security at every step. Your leadership will directly influence customer satisfaction and revenue growth as you guide the team toward delivering world-class digital commerce experiences.
Responsibilities:
Lead development efforts in building a robust bag and checkout platform to support online purchasing and fulfillment.
Collaborate with product and design to refine concepts, estimate work, and prioritize features.
Work with multiple teams to solve business problems while continue to automate the development and release processes.
Work across other technical teams to outline future system needs requirements, handle incident response and communication to ensure we meet business and engineering goals.
Manage and develop team members via code reviews, mentoring, and technical design sessions.
Implement a test-driven development approach to deliver software capabilities.
Stay current with industry trends to identify opportunities for new products and platform improvements
Maintain robust testing suites and deployment processes
Continuously improve engineering tools, workflows, and developer experience
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Management Information Systems or closely related field and 5 years of related work experience.
Experience developing and maintaining critical real-time serving systems in an environment where priorities are frequently shifting.
Proven ability to use monitoring tools to proactively identify and resolve issues
Experience leading and growing people both technically and professionally.
Great product sense combined with strong technical communication skills.
Worked in the high scale environment supporting cart, promotions and checkout flows of a major ecommerce establishment.
Experience in Java, J2EE, Spring, Docker, Kubernetes.
At this time, Foot Locker will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, or another type of work authorization).

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Benefits:

The annual base salary range is $130000 -$150000 / year. This range represents the anticipated low and high end of the salary for this position. This role is also eligible to receive short term incentives that align with individual and company performance. Salary will be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data. Salary is one component of the Foot Locker, Inc. total compensation package, which includes the below.


Foot Locker Benefits:

Employee Discount
Paid Time Off
Medical | Dental | Vision Coverage
401(k) | Roth 401(k)
Stock Purchase Plan
Life Insurance
Flexible Spending Account
Opportunities for Advancement
Tuition Reimbursement for Qualified Courses
Strong Company Culture
Employee Resource Groups