Sr Manager, Software Engineering and QA

Position Overview

The Senior Manager, Software Engineering & Quality Assurance will lead Holley’s engineering and QA organization responsible for building secure, scalable, and high-performance digital commerce solutions. This role requires a collaborative and people-first leader who thrives in agile environments, builds high-performing teams, solves complex technical problems, and serves as a strategic partner to the business.

With 8–10 years of experience in software engineering and digital commerce, and a deep understanding of SAFe Agile processes, this leader will play a pivotal role in driving development best practices, creating an environment of continuous improvement, and ensuring alignment between engineering output and business goals. 

This is a full-time, onsite position. The role may be based at any Holley facility, depending on business needs and candidate location, but requires the employee to be physically onsite at a Holley location.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic & Collaborative Leadership

•    Serve as a collaborative leader and coach, fostering strong partnerships across Product, Marketing, Sales, and IT to deliver business-aligned digital solutions.

•    Support and contribute to long-term strategic roadmaps for eCommerce platforms and integration pipelines.

•    Facilitate cross-team collaboration through program-level alignment and coordination, aligned with SAFe Agile practices.

Team Building & Talent Development

•    Hire, mentor, and develop a diverse, high-performing team of engineers, QA analysts, and integration specialists.

•    Fosters a strong sense of team cohesion and shared culture across onsite and remote software engineering teams operating in multiple regions.

•    Lead with empathy, conducting 1:1s, career development planning, and growth conversations.

•    Champion a culture of psychological safety, continuous learning, and internal mobility.

eCommerce Platform Delivery

•    Lead the design, development, deployment, and optimization of modern digital commerce systems (web, mobile, and API-driven).

•    Ensure solutions are user-centric, responsive, and conversion-optimized, in collaboration with UX and marketing stakeholders.

•    Leverage data, A/B testing, and personalization to improve engagement and drive digital revenue.

Technical Execution & Problem Solving

•    Act as a technical problem-solver and escalation point, supporting your teams through complex design, architectural, and performance issues.

•    Guide hands-on solutions for system integration, application performance tuning, and infrastructure bottlenecks.

•    Promote modern engineering practices (TDD, pair programming, refactoring, service isolation) and lead architecture/code reviews when needed.

Agile & DevOps Leadership

•    Drive adoption of SAFe Agile principles, ensuring delivery is predictable, measurable, and aligned to business objectives.

•    Champion engineering velocity via CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, and progressive delivery techniques.

•    Promote metrics-driven development: story cycle time, defect rates, test coverage, and deployment frequency.

Quality & Reliability

•    Define and execute robust QA strategies across unit, integration, regression, and performance testing.

•    Ensure high availability, resilience, and uptime of digital platforms through proactive monitoring and root cause analysis.

•    Lead continuous testing and quality automation efforts as part of the SDLC.

Security & Compliance

•    Ensure adherence to PCI DSS, GDPR/CCPA, and secure coding practices.

•    Support vulnerability remediation, system hardening, and compliance audits in collaboration with Security and Compliance teams.

Qualifications

Technical & Delivery Experience

•    8–10 years in software engineering/digital commerce, with 4 years in a leadership role.

•    Deep understanding of front-end and back-end development using JavaScript (React/Node/jQuery), Python, .NET, PHP, or Java.

•    Experience with third-party systems such as payment gateways (Braintree, PayPal), tax engines (Avalara), CRM/ESP platforms (HubSpot, Klaviyo), and ERP/OMS platforms.

•    Proven track record leading cloud-based, API-driven architectures and high-availability platforms.

Leadership Competencies

•    Demonstrated ability to build and scale collaborative engineering teams in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

•    Clear history of developing and mentoring team members, with a people-first mindset.

•    Comfortable facilitating architecture/design discussions, resolving technical blockers, and making pragmatic trade-offs.

•    Effective communicator who can bridge technical and non-technical audiences and build trust across departments.

Agile Expertise

•    Strong knowledge of SAFe Agile, including PI Planning, team cadence alignment, backlog refinement, and Lean Portfolio Management.

•    Experience working across multiple agile teams, coaching teams through agile maturity, and measuring agile health.

Education & Certifications

•    Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field; Master’s preferred.

•    Preferred certifications: SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Cloud Architect (AWS/GCP/Azure), or similar.

Holley is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability during the application process, please contact Human Resources.