Manager, Software Engineering
7-Eleven
Qualifications
Education
Bachelors/4 Yr Degree
Required Certifications
- Azure/AWS Certifications
- Scaled Agile
Responsibilities
Primary Duties
- Lead a portfolio of fuel-systems technology initiatives and guide a team of full-stack and microservices engineers in delivering scalable, high-quality solutions.
- Drive end-to-end delivery of in-house applications and COTS platforms, partnering closely with vendors, business stakeholders, and IT teams to achieve measurable business outcomes.
- Ensure operational stability, reliability, and performance of all supported applications through proactive monitoring, incident management, and continuous improvement.
- Oversee system design, architecture reviews, and scalability planning for cloud-native and distributed systems.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership by reviewing code, validating design decisions, and mentoring engineers in modern engineering practices.
- Define and maintain detailed solution designs for enterprise-grade applications, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and long-term platform strategy.
- Partner with Product Management, QA, and UX teams to shape user experiences, define feature scope, and translate business needs into actionable engineering plans.
- Collaborate with business analysts and business partners to deliver intuitive, cloud-based tools that streamline daily operations and decision-making.
- Communicate roadmaps, priorities, risks, and progress to leadership and stakeholders with clarity and transparency.
- Recruit, develop, and coach engineering talent, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
- Support career growth through regular feedback, performance management, and opportunities for skill development.
- Promote healthy team dynamics, resolve conflicts constructively, and model collaborative behaviors.
- Lead Agile/Scrum ceremonies and ensure predictable, high-quality delivery across sprints.
- Estimate development effort, manage workload distribution, and ensure teams meet delivery commitments and quality standards.
- Guide data modeling, querying, and performance optimization for application data layers and other data stores.
- Stay current with emerging AI technologies, contribute to internal engineering communities, and champion experimentation and innovation.
About This Role
Fuels back-office systems at 7-Eleven consists of developing and supporting a combination of applications that enable the fuels wholesale, fleet, supply, accounting, and transportation business.
Key Objectives
- Lead a talented development team, provide leadership, and ensure the successful delivery of scalable and efficient applications.
Experience Requirements
Required
10+ years of experience with development and designing applications using JAVA Spring, Node.js, React or Angular, Salesforce.
10 years of experience
Required Skills
Technical Skills
Soft Skills
Full Job Description
When you join us, you'll embrace ownership as teams within specific product areas take responsibility for end-to-end solution delivery, supporting local teams and integrating new digital assets. Challenge yourself by contributing to products deployed across our extensive network of convenience stores, processing over a billion transactions annually. Build solutions for scale, addressing the diverse needs of our 84,000+ stores in 19 countries. Experience growth through cross-functional learning, encouraged and applauded at 7-Eleven GSC. With our size, stability, and resources, you can navigate a rewarding career. Embody leadership and service as 7-Eleven GSC remains dedicated to meeting the needs of customers and communities.
7-Eleven is dedicated to being a customer-centric, digitally empowered organization that seamlessly integrates our physical stores with digital offerings. Our goal is to redefine convenience by consistently providing top-notch customer experiences and solutions in a rapidly evolving consumer landscape. Anticipating customer preferences, we create and implement platforms that empower customers to shop, pay, and access products and services according to their preferences. To achieve success, we are driving a cultural shift anchored in leadership principles, supported by the realignment of organizational resources and processes.
At 7-Eleven we are guided by our Leadership Principles. Each principle has a defined set of behaviors which help guide the 7-Eleven GSC team to Serve Customers and Support Stores.
- Be Customer Obsessed
- Be Courageous with Your Point of View
- Challenge the Status Quo
- Act Like an Entrepreneur
- Have an "It Can Be Done" Attitude
- Do the Right Thing
- Be Accountable
Fuels back-office systems at 7-Eleven consists of developing and supporting a combination of applications that enable the fuels wholesale, fleet, supply, accounting, and transportation business. This role will primarily work with a group of engineers to deliver in-house solutions as well as work in tandem with vendor partners. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and optimizing custom/SAAS solutions that align with our business objectives. As a Fuel enterprise system manager, you will lead a talented development team, provide leadership, and ensure the successful delivery of scalable and efficient applications. Today we are redefining the customer experience in big ways, we are fundamentally changing our culture, and we want talented, innovative, customer obsessed, and entrepreneurial people like you to come make history with us.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
As an Engineering Manager, you are joining a multidisciplinary team of engineers who will create new in-house applications and work with vendors to manage the COTS products. We are seeking a creative, hands-on, talented manager to be a member of the 7-Eleven Global platform development team. As an Engineering Manager, your primary focus will be:
- Lead a portfolio of fuel-systems technology initiatives and guide a team of full-stack and microservices engineers in delivering scalable, high-quality solutions.
- Drive end-to-end delivery of in-house applications and COTS platforms, partnering closely with vendors, business stakeholders, and IT teams to achieve measurable business outcomes.
- Ensure operational stability, reliability, and performance of all supported applications through proactive monitoring, incident management, and continuous improvement.
- Oversee system design, architecture reviews, and scalability planning for cloud-native and distributed systems.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership by reviewing code, validating design decisions, and mentoring engineers in modern engineering practices.
- Define and maintain detailed solution designs for enterprise-grade applications, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and long-term platform strategy.
- Partner with Product Management, QA, and UX teams to shape user experiences, define feature scope, and translate business needs into actionable engineering plans.
- Collaborate with business analysts and business partners to deliver intuitive, cloud-based tools that streamline daily operations and decision-making.
- Communicate roadmaps, priorities, risks, and progress to leadership and stakeholders with clarity and transparency.
- Recruit, develop, and coach engineering talent, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
- Support career growth through regular feedback, performance management, and opportunities for skill development.
- Promote healthy team dynamics, resolve conflicts constructively, and model collaborative behaviors.
- Lead Agile/Scrum ceremonies and ensure predictable, high-quality delivery across sprints.
- Estimate development effort, manage workload distribution, and ensure teams meet delivery commitments and quality standards.
- Guide data modeling, querying, and performance optimization for application data layers and other data stores.
- Stay current with emerging AI technologies, contribute to internal engineering communities, and champion experimentation and innovation.
EDUCATION: Bachelors/4 Yr Degree
YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE: 10+ years
YEARS OF MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE: 3+ years
CERTIFICATIONS / LICENSES: Azure/AWS Certifications, Scaled Agile
Specific Knowledge and Skills
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience with development and designing applications using JAVA Spring, Node.js, React or Angular, Salesforce.
- 6+ years of experience developing with large microservice-based architectures, container orchestration frameworks: Kubernetes/Azure EKS.
- 6+ years of experience in relational or non-relational database management systems like PostgreSQL, MS SQL, MongoDB.
- 3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers.
- Experience with working with vendor partners and business to drive delivery.
- Understanding of MVC / MVVM / MVP structure and development patterns.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
- Experience in partnering with product and program management teams.
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Salesforce.com delivery Experience.
- PDI Fuel Accounting systems.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Experience building event driven applications using Java Spring, Spring boot, Kafka and/or Python.
- Experience working in Cloud platforms either AWS, Azure or GCP
- Familiarity with modern build pipelines and CI/CD tools like Jenkins
- Familiarity with code versioning Git (Gitlab).
- Familiarity with project management tools like JIRA.
* This role is onsite in Irving, Texas.
* This role is not eligible for sponsorship.
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7-Eleven pays $374 for Engineering Manager in Irving, Texas, with most salaries ranging from $343 to $414. Pay can vary based on role, experience, and local cost of living.
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