The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  Dollar General is hiring a Engineering Manager in Bakersfield, CA.

• Role description

  At Dollar General, the best Engineering Manager isn't the one who writes the most code but the one whose Kotlin decisions age the gracefully. Frame it as Dollar General trusting your 8 years with $115,000 - $191,000, a technology mandate, and the room to grow into leadership.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Contribute to sprint planning, estimation, and technology roadmap discussions
  • Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines for faster release cycles
  • Coordinate releases with stakeholders across Bakersfield, CA and remote teams
  • Cut Go cold-start times so Dollar General functions wake before CA users notice
  • Backfill REST API test coverage on the riskiest corners of Dollar General's codebase
  • Enhance test automation frameworks to increase release confidence
  • Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Dollar General workloads
  • Ship Facilitation experiments fast, kill the losers, and double down on what sticks

  What You'll Bring

  • At least 8 years of standing behind your own estimates
  • Strong multitasking ability without sacrificing quality
  • Solid PHP grounding, plus Cypress you can pick up on the fly
  • The reliability that lets a manager stop checking in
  • A teammate's instinct to unblock others before yourself
  • A calmly-fast-moving bias toward action, balanced by knowing when to wait

  Founded in Bakersfield, CA during a downturn, Dollar General grew quietly-excellent and lean while flashier technology rivals burned out. Trust is the default setting at Dollar General; you have to actively spend it to lose it.

  Start strong at $115,000 - $191,000, grow with a mentor, settle into benefits, and enjoy flexibility that finally fits Bakersfield.

  Right now the Engineering Manager listing in Bakersfield, CA is live and looking.

  We're keeping this Engineering Manager search short, so put your hat in the ring this week.

• Required skills

  • REST API
  • PHP
  • GraphQL
  • Node.js
  • Kotlin
  • Cypress
  • JavaScript
  • Go
  • Facilitation
  • Persuasion
  • Adaptability

• Benefits & perks

  • Standing flexible benefits credits
  • Sabbatical Leave
  • Phone Allowance
  • Training Budget
  • Catered Lunches
  • Critical illness insurance
  • Educational Assistance
  • Internet and phone reimbursement
  • Housing Allowance
  • Floating holidays
  • Matching gift program
  • Company-wide holiday shutdown
  • Remote Work
  • Pet insurance

• Apply before 2026-08-29

  Submit your application for this Internship technology position.