Senior Engineering Manager, Marketplace

As the Senior Engineering Manager with the Marketplace team, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for building and operating critical marketplace platform capabilities that power the growth and success of Best Buy's Marketplace ecosystem. You will drive the development of scalable seller, catalog, inventory, pricing, order management, fulfillment, and integration services that enable third-party sellers to efficiently onboard, manage products and store insights, and deliver exceptional customer experiences. In this role, you will partner closely with product, engineering, business, and operations teams to define and execute the technical strategy for Marketplace platforms. You will ensure platform reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence while enabling innovation and accelerating Marketplace growth. As a people leader, you will foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, collaboration, and engineering excellence while coaching and developing high-performing teams.

This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work on site Tuesday through Thursday at the Best Buy corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota. You can work virtually from home or another non Best Buy location on Friday. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.

What you'll do

• Lead and develop engineering teams delivering Marketplace Platform capabilities, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, continuous improvement, and innovation.
• Architect and develop scalable solutions within a distributed CQRS, Event Sourced microservices architecture using Java Spring, leveraging Agentic AI as a core development tool.
• Partner with product, architecture, UX, and business stakeholders to define priorities, technical strategy, and execution plans aligned to business objectives.
• Drive predictable delivery across multiple initiatives by managing scope, timelines, risks, dependencies, and team capacity while promoting Agile and CI/CD best practices.
• Provide technical leadership for modern cloud-based and enterprise systems, ensuring high standards of quality, security, performance, scalability, reliability, and operational readiness.
• Coach and mentor engineers while collaborating with platform and vendor teams to integrate new technologies, improve engineering effectiveness, and support long-term business outcomes.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant back-end software engineering experience
• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent combination of education and/or experience
• 4+ years of experience as a software developer in standard web technologies like React, JavaScript, Java, Spring, Kafka, Rabbit, and Groovy.
• 2+ years managing and/or leading engineering teams to include day to day management and career development.
• 2+ years on monitoring and alerting tools sets like Splunk, Kibana, GoAlert, Grafana, Dynatrace and others.
• 2+ years of experience in GCP functions like Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Big Data, and BigQuery.
• 2 or more years of experience with SQL / No SQL databases (AWS Aurora, Cassandra, PostGres, etc.)
• 1+ years of experience with Cloud Computing platforms (e.g., Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform etc.)

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Relevant professional experience in engineering, technology delivery, or platform development.
• Experience managing engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Experience leading teams that build custom solutions using modern languages, cloud technologies, SDLC practices, and engineering tools.
• Experience managing delivery across multiple products, programs, or cross-functional initiatives with complex dependencies.
• Experience working in retail, supply chain, order management or similar technology domains.

What's in it for you

We're committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life.

Our benefits include:

• Competitive pay

• Great employee discount

• Financial savings and retirement resources

• Support for your physical and mental well-being

Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation, where you live, your full-time or part-time employment status, and federal and state regulations. Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves. Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location, employment status, salary or hourly status (exempt/non-exempt), and years of continued or bridged service.

Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary.

For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide.

About us

As part of the Best Buy team, you'll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life - in our stores, online and in customers' homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We're committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.

Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.

Application deadline: Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.

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Location Number 100024 Remote - Minnesota

Address Remote$121050 - $216650 /yr

Pay Range $121050 - $216650 /yr