Engineering Manager, Stitchfix
Inventory Management Systems
$218-232k
Online personal styling
Job no longer available
Online personal styling
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$218-232k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To change the way people find clothes they love by combining technology with the personal touch of seasoned style experts.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will be able to learn our systems while thoughtfully organizing the team around business goals and supporting team members' career growth along the way
- You have 1-2+ years of leading and managing high-performance engineering teams
- You have experience running teams in an Agile environment
- You have previously managed remote teams. We use GitHub, Slack, Jira and video conferencing extensively to collaborate
- You are flexible, dedicated, and curious
- You believe in the craft of software engineering, but are pragmatic when necessary
- You have a passion for mentoring and coaching engineers
- You have a track record of delivering features and functionality on time with high quality
- You have excellent communication skills
- You might have experience working on leading e-commerce websites
- You might have experience working with software to support supply chain and distribution centers
What the job involves
- Stitch Fix’s Warehouse Inventory Management Systems (IMS) team is looking for a mindful, empathetic, and self-aware Engineering Manager
- In this role, you’ll manage the team responsible for evolving and transforming our Inventory Management Systems as SaaS across our fulfillment network
- We build modern software with modern techniques like Test Driven Development, continuous delivery, DevOps, and service-oriented architecture
- We focus on high-value projects that solve clearly identified problems and are developed sustainably
- We create tools that support the responsibility of bringing inventory into our company and moving that inventory around in our warehouses, providing the entire Stitch Fix engineering organization with stable and reliable messaging capabilities focusing on self-service platforms
- On this team, you will manage a team that has experience with backend technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Sidekiq, Datadog and more
- You will ship features that will support our distribution centers and ultimately delight our clients
- You will plan and support career development for the members of your team
- You will inspire and grow your team through mentorship, empowerment, and by challenging them to do their best work
- You will partner with business partners, product management and design to help set priorities and plan the roadmap for your team
- You will find, hire, and develop great humans that compliment each other as a team
- You will facilitate technical design discussions, remove blockers and align stakeholders
- You will drive programs in engineering reliability, productivity, process, and quality
- You will recruit and retain best-in-class engineering talent to build a diverse high performing team
- You will inspire an atmosphere of continuous improvement by serving as a coach, mentor, and technical advisor
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Shopping online for clothes is not always a fun experience. Finding clothes you like is only half the battle. Sizing guides and return policies seem to have been designed to be challenging to understand, and can also vary wildly from company to company.
Stitchfix sets out to change this by making online clothes shopping personalized and hassle-free. Customers take a survey on their personal tastes, and pay a one-off fee for a stylist, to receive a box of 5 personalized items. Then, they simply pay for any items they keep, or return what they don't want free of charge. The stylists fee is deducted from the first purchase and if they keep all 5 items, they receive a discount.
Stitchfix's unique blend of technology, and human touch in styling, allows the company to deliver its personalized experience at scale, with its growing data sets putting them in a great place to predict consumer trends and preferences. Unfortunately, the company has been hit hard by the current economic climate - cutting staff back in June 2022 as well as again in early 2023. Only time will tell if this once exciting brand will be able to bounce back from this bump in the road and find success again in the future.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2014
$30m
SERIES C
Oct 2013
$12m
SERIES B
Total funding: $47.6m
Company benefits
- Leadership, managing people program, career journey & other training opportunities
- Company equity for eligible roles
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- 401(k) plan
- Unlimited vacation for qualified roles
- Competitive parental leave
- Enjoy 40% off of Fixes plus access to quarterly sample sales
- Collaborative workspaces - Open floor plan with standing desks & living room seating throughout
Company values
- Integrity
- Be an owner
- Raise the flag
- Keep equity at the center
- Innovation
- Put the client first
- Boldly create the future
- Solve at high speed
- Trust
- Win as a team
- Debate & commit
- Celebrate Stitch Fix grit
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Katrina Lake
(CEO)BA in Economics from Stanford. MBA from Harvard Business School. Previously 2 years as an Associate at The Parthenon Group and 2 years as an Associate at Leader Ventures.
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