Senior Director of Digital Engineering

Five Below Inc; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Five Below is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering – Digital to lead engineering for our customer-facing experiences across e-commerce and native apps. You will own architecture, delivery, and operations of digital platforms, partnering with Digital, Marketing, Product, and Data teams to translate business strategy into measurable technical outcomes.

You’ll drive a high-performance culture, adopt modern DevOps practices, and champion scalable, secure, and resilient systems.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering and technology leadership for customer-facing digital products.
• 7+ years leading and scaling engineering teams in high-growth environments.
• Proven track record improving digital metrics (traffic, conversion, AOV, retention).

Responsibilities

• Define multi-year technology strategy for web and mobile experiences.
• Partner with product, marketing, and analytics to align roadmaps with business outcomes.
• Lead end-to-end delivery and operations for e-commerce sites and mobile apps; ensure uptime and performance.
• Drive modern digital architecture and MACH-aligned practices; advance headless commerce.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Digital strategy

Stakeholder management

Cloud-native architectures

DevOps/DevSecOps

Headless/ MACH architecture

API-first design

Tools

CommerceTools

Adobe Analytics

LaunchDarkly

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Five Below is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering – Digital to lead engineering for our customer-facing experiences across e-commerce and native apps. You will own architecture, delivery, and operations of digital platforms, partnering with Digital, Marketing, Product, and Data teams to translate business strategy into measurable technical outcomes.

You’ll drive a high-performance culture, adopt modern DevOps practices, and champion scalable, secure, and resilient systems.