Manager, Engineering

Job Summary:

The Manager, Engineering - Catalog role is at the heart of iHerb's AI transformation. This role will lead a lean, high-seniority team of engineers while staying hands-on as a player-coach. The Manager, Engineering - Catalog will own delivery commitments, grow engineers, and model the AI-native development practices that will become the standard across the engineering organization.

This role will be among the first leaders to validate and shape iHerb's AI-driven SDLC golden path. Leading the Catalog engineering team, responsible for iHerb's product catalog platform. You will drive feature delivery across a full-stack codebase, coordinate with product and design, and set the technical bar for a team of mid-to-senior full-stack engineers.

Job Expectations:

• Own sprint planning, delivery commitments, and retrospectives for the Catalog team.
• Carry an active IC load: writing, reviewing, and shipping full-stack production code weekly using AI-assisted tooling.
• Partner with the Principal Engineer, Catalog on architectural direction and the platform roadmap.
• Hire and onboard engineers; enforce a high AI-native bar in interviews.
• Drive collaboration with product managers and design without waiting for top-down coordination.
• Contribute improvements back to the shared AI-driven SDLC golden path and skills library.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Required:

• AI-driven SDLC (required): hands-on experience shipping production code with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor. Must be able to describe how AI changed your workflow and what guardrails you put in place.
• Full-stack orientation: comfortable contributing across layers of the stack; not specialized in only one layer. Track-specific stack requirements are listed above.
• Delivery ownership: track record of owning commitments end-to-end, from scoping through shipping and retrospectives.
• Engineering excellence: strong opinions on code quality, testing strategy, CI/CD, and what it means to ship production-grade software at speed.
• People leadership: experience hiring, onboarding, and growing engineers; able to give direct, constructive feedback.
• Communication: clear written and verbal communicator; comfortable driving alignment across product, design, and peer engineering teams.
• Production experience with one or more backend languages used at iHerb: C#/.NET, Go, Python, or Java. .NET/C# is the primary stack today and is strongly preferred.
• React or equivalent modern frontend framework.
• Relational database experience with MS SQL Server or Postgres.
• Ability to contribute across the full stack, backend through frontend, not just one layer.
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Excellent organization skills and ability to multi-task.

Preferred:

• Background in e-commerce, retail tech, or high-traffic consumer platforms.
• Experience working in globally distributed teams.
• Contributions to internal developer tooling, platform frameworks, or SDLC process improvements at org scale.