Director, Software Engineering

Tailored Brands is a leading omnichannel specialty retailer of menswear, including suits, formalwear and a broad selection of business casual offerings. The company aims to help its customers love the way they look and feel for their most important moments by delivering personalized products and services through a convenient network of stores and e-commerce sites. The company’s brands include Men’s Wearhouse, Jos. A. Bank, Moores and K&G Fashion. At Tailored Brands, we value differences and know they make us better. We are always working to make our Company a more diverse, equitable and inclusive (DEI) place to work.

About the Job

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Director, Backend Engineering to join our Digital Technology department. We are seeking an experienced, dynamic, and strategic individual to lead and oversee the backend engineering teams responsible for powering a high-traffic e-commerce platform. This critical role will focus on building and maintaining a robust, scalable backend infrastructure that seamlessly integrates with our Order Management System (OMS), Catalog and Product Information Management (PIM), Data Lake, Marketing Technology (MarTech) stack, and various third-party integrations, including payment systems. You will be responsible for driving technical innovation, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security, and collaborating cross-functionally to align engineering efforts with business goals.

What You’ll Do | Key Accountabilities 

• Own the design, implementation, and evolution of the backend architecture to ensure it supports high availability, fault tolerance, performance, and scalability.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a talented team of backend engineers and integration specialists. Foster a collaborative, innovative, and high-performance engineering culture focused on operational excellence.
• Establish the processes needed to achieve high throughput product development and system reliability while enabling rapid experimentation and data-informed decisions.
• Continuously optimize backend systems to improve system performance, reduce latency, and handle high volumes of traffic during peak seasons.
• Lead root cause analysis for backend issues and integrations, driving fast resolution and implementing long-term improvements to prevent future occurrences.
• Establish and maintain coding standards, code review processes, and testing practices.
• Foster collaborative environment where best product and technical ideas are nurtured and come to life.
• Manage the delivery of high-impact e-commerce applications.
• Actively participate in the recruitment process to attract and retain top talent.

What You’ll Bring | Skills & Experience

• 12 years of experience building digital customer experiences for e-commerce and SaaS applications.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related experience.
• Proven experience working with high-traffic e-commerce platforms and handling large-scale, mission-critical systems.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience scaling and managing 20 person teams, building strong bench of senior individual contributors.
• Experience initiating and driving strategic initiatives and leading engineering teams.
• Track record of successful cross-functional collaboration while building engaging e-commerce solutions in B2C settings.
• Proven track record of designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems and software products in high volume consumer facing applications.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience working inside innovative, high-growth environments.
• Experience leading initiatives and developing thought leadership in high visibility domains.
• Experience with influencing open-source community or industry groups.
• Experience with leveraging AI technology to streamline engineering activities.

Please note that you do not need to qualify for all requirements to be considered. We encourage you to apply if you can meet most of the requirements and are comfortable opening a dialog to be considered.

Work Environment, Physical & Mental Demands

• Ability to sit and work at a computer keyboard for extended periods of time
• Ability to stoop, kneel, bend at the waist, and reach daily
• Able to lift and move up to 25 pounds occasionally
• Must utilize visual acuity, speech and hearing, hand and eye coordination and manual dexterity necessary to operate a computer and office equipment
• Hours regularly 40 hours per week, as work dictates, in a hybrid work environment from our Dublin, California office.

Benefits

This role is eligible for healthcare including medical, dental and vision, retirement savings (401k with a company match), income protection programs such as life, accident and disability insurance, paid time off for sick leave, vacation, bereavement, jury duty, and holidays, wellbeing program, commuter, adoption assistance, education assistance, legal services, and employee merchandise discounts. For more detailed information go to mytbtotalrewards.com.

Work-Life Balance

We understand the demands of work, school, family, and personal responsibilities.  Through our work-life resources and programs we offer services for every stage of life to help you manage the day-to-day needs.  We offer programs such as:

• Meeting-Free Fridays (encouraged) | so you can catch up on work and self-development
• Summer Fridays | from Memorial Day to Labor Day so you can enjoy a head-start to the weekend
• Holiday Early Departure | close out early the business day before a company observed holiday 

The starting salary for this position is $176,400 – $210,000 and may increase to $250,000 depending on merit, length of service with the Company, and other factors. We take into consideration an individual’s skills, background, and experience in determining final salary.  Other compensation may include a 20% Annual Incentive Plan (AIP) bonus paid out according to policy. Base pay information is based on market location and may be subject to prevailing wage laws, if applicable.

Note: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or qualifications associated with this job.

Salary : $176,400 - $210,000