Warehouse Automation Software Engineering Manager

Joinimagine; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Joinimagine is seeking a Software Engineering Manager in Bellevue, WA to lead a team delivering Warehouse Control System software for customer projects. You will partner with internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful delivery and proactive issue resolution throughout the project lifecycle.

You will drive people leadership, engineering management, and portfolio oversight, balancing priorities, and coaching engineers toward high-quality solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience in industrial automation, warehouse execution/control systems, material handling, or related industries.
• 3+ years of people management or technical leadership experience.
• Experience leading technical teams responsible for software project delivery.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and balancing competing priorities.
• Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated experience managing engineering resources, project staffing, and project forecasting through either formal people leadership or project lead responsibilities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated customer-facing leadership experience, including managing customer expectations, resolving escalations, and building collaborative relationships with project stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead a software engineering organization supporting warehouse automation software solutions.
• Manage a team of software engineers responsible for project design, development, testing, deployment, commissioning, and go-live support activities.
• Oversee staffing and assignment of engineering resources across a portfolio of customer projects ranging from small enhancements to large-scale warehouse implementations.
• Collaborate with project teams to assess project risks, staffing requirements, schedule impacts, and technical challenges.
• Review project health and execution metrics to identify opportunities for improvement and proactively mitigate risks.
• Support project teams with solution architecture reviews, execution strategy development, and issue resolution.
• Facilitate cross-functional communication between engineering, project management, controls engineering, commissioning, account management, and customer stakeholders.
• Manage engineering escalations and coordinate resolution of technical, resource, and project execution issues.
• Provide input into project planning, engineering estimates, budget forecasts, and organizational capacity planning.
• Drive standardization and process improvements that improve engineering effectiveness, delivery quality, and customer satisfaction.
• Travel as required to support customer engagements, project reviews, engineering workshops, and critical project milestones (typically up to 15%).

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or related technical discipline

8+ years of software engineering experience in industrial automation, warehouse execution/control systems, material handling, or related industries

3+ years of people management or technical leadership experience

Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management skills

Demonstrated experience managing engineering resources, project staffing, and project forecasting

Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and decision-making skills

Job description

Joinimagine is seeking a Software Engineering Manager in Bellevue, WA to lead a team delivering Warehouse Control System software for customer projects. You will partner with internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful delivery and proactive issue resolution throughout the project lifecycle.

You will drive people leadership, engineering management, and portfolio oversight, balancing priorities, and coaching engineers toward high-quality solutions.