Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

Posted Date : Feb 4, 2026

Requisition Number : 127133

Job Location : Dallas, TX

This position is hybrid located in our Frisco Office.

Overview :

Are you a hands-on software engineering manager interested in helping to bootstrap a brand-new software organization at Hershey? We hired our first six software engineers over the past few months and are looking to continue expanding the organization. This is a high-impact position requiring advanced technical skills, leadership, and the ability to drive highly ambiguous projects. We don't have a legacy codebase to maintain; we have a blank canvas. We need you to ensure we paint it with high-quality, supportable, and scalable code from day one.

This team will build software across a broad range of problem domains at Hershey, spanning from supply chain to marketing to consumer insights. This is an opportunity to work on challenging problems spanning the breadth of Hershey's business. Because of the extreme ambiguity in direction, you will be expected to pick up new skills and technologies independently. If you value the opportunity to dig into new areas and find the best solutions to problems, then please apply.

This role is hybrid in-office and reports to the VP of Software Engineering and Enterprise Data.

Key Responsibilities :

• Delivery & Technical Project Management : You own the engineering schedule. You take vague requirements for new products and break them down into concrete technical specs, milestones, and sprint plans. You ensure deliverables are planned accurately, dependencies are managed, and stakeholders are kept informed of progress (and risks) in real-time. You guide the team to make early architectural decisions that balance speed-to-market with long-term maintainability, ensuring we aren't building technical debt into the foundation of our new products.
• Operational Excellence : You help build up our operational culture from scratch. You define what "healthy" looks like before we even launch. You set the standards for the on-call rotations, incident response protocols, and runbooks. You ensure that every feature we ship is observable and that proper logging, metrics, and dashboards are part of the "Definition of Done," not an afterthought. You raise the bar on operational support, professionalizing our triage process and ensuring that customer issues are handled with speed and rigor.
• Technical Mentorship : You actively participate in code reviews and technical design document reviews. You are the gatekeeper of quality, ensuring that the code we write today doesn't become the legacy problem of tomorrow. While you are not an individual contributor, you are technical enough to dive deep into the code to help unblock the team or troubleshoot complex production issues.

Basic Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The policy of The Hershey Company is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other categories protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority / Female / Disabled / Protected Veterans.

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Nearest Major Market : Dallas

Nearest Secondary Market : Fort Worth