The Hershey Company · 1 day ago
Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering
Dallas, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
7+ years expThe Hershey Company is looking for a Senior Manager in Software Development Engineering to help establish a new software organization. This role involves managing engineering schedules, ensuring operational excellence, and providing technical mentorship while working on a variety of challenging problems across the company.
ConfectioneryFood and BeverageManufacturingService IndustrySnack Food
Responsibilities
Delivery & Technical Project Management: You own the engineering schedule. You take vague requirements for new products and break them down into concrete technical specs, milestones, and sprint plans. You ensure deliverables are planned accurately, dependencies are managed, and stakeholders are kept informed of progress (and risks) in real-time. You guide the team to make early architectural decisions that balance speed-to-market with long-term maintainability, ensuring we aren't building technical debt into the foundation of our new products
Operational Excellence: You help build up our operational culture from scratch. You define what 'healthy' looks like before we even launch. You set the standards for the on-call rotations, incident response protocols, and runbooks. You ensure that every feature we ship is observable and that proper logging, metrics, and dashboards are part of the 'Definition of Done,' not an afterthought. You raise the bar on operational support, professionalizing our triage process and ensuring that customer issues are handled with speed and rigor
Technical Mentorship: You actively participate in code reviews and technical design document reviews. You are the gatekeeper of quality, ensuring that the code we write today doesn't become the legacy problem of tomorrow. While you are not an individual contributor, you are technical enough to dive deep into the code to help unblock the team or troubleshoot complex production issues
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent, with 7+ years of professional software engineering experience (preferably full-stack), and 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership or people management role
Demonstrated success delivering new products or major features end-to-end, including breaking down ambiguous requirements, driving technical execution, and ensuring high-quality code and architecture
Strong technical and operational leadership: able to design and debug complex systems, enforce engineering best practices, and build healthy processes for on-call, incident response, and operational excellence
Hands-on experience with modern software delivery practices, including agile project management and DevOps (e.g., CI/CD, observability, incident management)
Success collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders across multiple business domains and excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical risks and tradeoffs for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Proven ability to mentor and develop engineers, foster a culture of learning, and participate in hiring and technical interviews
Preferred
Experience building engineering processes and support structures from scratch in a greenfield or startup-like environment
Familiarity with our tech stack (Node.js, NestJS, React, TypeScript, Azure, GitLab CI/CD) or similar modern technologies
Experience designing for scalability, reliability, and compliance in cloud environments
Track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering teams in ambiguous, fast-changing settings
Company
The Hershey Company
The Hershey Company is headquartered in Hershey, Pa., and is an industry-leading snacks company with a purpose to make more moments of goodness through its iconic brands.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4.62B2025-10-21Post Ipo Debt· $1.88B
2025-02-19Post Ipo Debt· $2B
2023-05-01Post Ipo Debt· $750M
Leadership Team
Kirk Tanner
Chief Executive Officer
Michele Buck
President and Chief Executive Officer
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