Engineering Manager - Core Commerce Platform

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About the Organisation & Role:

You will be part of the Core Commerce Platform organisation responsible for delivering the omnichannel commerce capabilities that power the purchase journey, inventory availability, delivery promise, order processing & fulfilment and post-purchase experiences across channels. The organisation plays a critical role in ensuring products are available to buy, orders can be fulfilled reliably, and commitments made to consumers are delivered consistently. Through a portfolio of commerce platform capabilities, the organisation enables seamless omnichannel experiences while supporting efficient, scalable, and resilient commerce operations across the global digital ecosystem.

The Engineering Manager is accountable for engineering delivery, roadmap execution, operational excellence, and engineering team development. Partnering with Product Owners, Project Managers, Tech Leads, and peer engineering teams, you will enable predictable delivery, grow engineering talent, and build a high-performing culture focused on ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

What you will do:

· Lead and develop a team of software engineers building basket, checkout, payments, and consumer commerce services.

· Drive delivery of highly available, secure, and scalable commerce services that directly impact conversion, revenue, and consumer experience.

· Own engineering execution for payment gateway integrations, alternative payment methods, checkout orchestration, promotions, taxation, and transactional commerce workflows.

· Drive planning and execution against team objectives and key results (OKRs), ensuring alignment, accountability and transparent reporting.

· Own sprint execution, delivery planning, capacity management, dependency management, and risk management.

· Partner with Product Owners, Project Managers, Retail Tech team, and Tech Leads to deliver business outcomes.

· Drive engineering excellence through strong development practices, quality standards, operational discipline and continuous improvement.

· Coach engineers through regular feedback, mentoring, performance management, and career development.

· Build a high-performing engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, collaboration, and learning.

· Establish effective engineering metrics and use data to improve team productivity, quality, and delivery predictability.

· Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and automation to improve productivity, quality, and delivery efficiency.

· Identify opportunities to leverage AI across software development, testing, documentation, knowledge management and onboarding.

· Collaborate with engineering leadership on hiring, staffing, onboarding, talent development, and succession planning.

· Manage delivery partners and vendors where applicable and ensure alignment with team objectives.

10+ years of software engineering experience, with experience leading engineering teams in an agile delivery environment.

· 3+ years of people leadership experience.

· Strong experience leading roadmap execution, delivery planning, dependency management, and stakeholder engagement.

· Familiarity with API-first, cloud-native architectures and design patterns.

· Solid software engineering background with experience building APIs, distributed systems, and high-volume transactional platforms.

· Strong understanding of basket, checkout, payment processing, promotions, pricing, taxation, and other commerce services within modern eCommerce platforms.

· Experience integrating with payment gateways, fraud prevention providers, financial service providers, and third-party commerce platforms.

· Understanding of payment security, tokenisation, authentication, PCI-DSS principles, and secure transaction processing practices.

· Experience working with event-driven architectures, high-volume transactional systems, and enterprise integrations.

· Strong people leadership skills with experience in hiring, mentoring, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering teams.

· Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices including software architecture & engineering principles, code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, and AI-assisted development.

· Strong communication, collaboration, decision-making, and organisational leadership skills.

· Experience driving engineering quality, operational excellence, reliability, security, and continuous improvement.

· Experience working in Agile delivery environments using tools such as Jira & Confluence or equivalent.

· A data-driven mindset with the ability to use engineering, delivery, and operational metrics to improve team effectiveness and predictability.

· Experience leveraging coding agents, LLMs, and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve software delivery and team productivity will be a strong advantage.

· Experience in global DTC, retail, omnichannel commerce or high-volume consumer digital environment preferred.

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field.

PUMA provides equal opportunities for all job applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex,

gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or disability. Equality for all is one of the core principles at

PUMA and we do not tolerate any form of harassment or discrimination.

At PUMA, every application is reviewed by real people who are committed to fairness, transparency, and equal

opportunity - no matter your background, identity, or experience.To ensure our process stays true to these values, no automated systems or AI tools are used to make hiring decisions. Every decision is made by real people -with real judgment and accountability. We may use functions supported by Artificial Intelligence (AI) to carry out isolated organizational steps, such as scheduling interviews. These functions have no influence on decisions in the application process. We believe in creating spaces where everyone is welcome, celebrated, and empowered to contribute authentically. Because at PUMA, whoever wants to play, can play.

PUMA is a global sports brand creating footwear, apparel, and accessories that inspire athletes and everyday movers. The PUMA Group owns PUMA, Cobra Golf, and stichd, operates in 120+ countries, and has around 22,000

employees worldwide.