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We are raising our standards for product craft and rebuilding the systems behind these experiences.\nAs a Software Engineering Group Manager, you will lead multiple engineers across full stack, front end, andback-enddisciplines to deliver customer-facing and internal products in a product operating model. You will partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Architecture to shape strategy, build durable platforms, and deliver measurable outcomes.\nThis role is for leaders who can grow strong teams, raise engineering standards, and guide technical direction-while staying close enough to the work to make sound architectural and delivery decisions.\nWhat You WillWork On\nAt Coca-Cola, engineers have the opportunity to build products at meaningful scale-shaping the digital experiences, platforms, and intelligent systems that power how we serve customers, enable field teams and partners, support sales, and drive transaction growth across one of the world’s most recognized brands. Depending on the team, you could work on connected service tools that improve resolution speed and reliability, data and API platforms that unlock growth and decisioning, customer and operational experiences that reduce friction across workflows, or sales products that equip teams with better visibility, insights, and execution capabilities. This is a chance to join at a pivotal moment: helping define modern engineering practices, influence product direction, and build high-impact solutions in empowered, cross-functional teams where your work directly connects to business performance and customer outcomes\nHow We Work\nYou’llbe part of a dedicated, cross-functional team (Product, Design, Engineering) that is:\nEmpowered to solve problems, not just build features\n\nAccountable for outcomes, not output\n\nCollaborative by default, from discovery through delivery\n\nContinuously learning, using data and customer insight to improve\n\nKey Responsibilities\nManage and coach a group of full stack, front end, andback-endengineers throughtechnical leadership and professional development\n\nPlay a key role in building out your Software Engineering Team;\n\nBring astrong technical perspective to help the teamidentifywhat isfeasible, what is valuable, and what is worth building\n\nChallenge assumptions and propose alternative solutions that are simpler, faster, or more impactful\n\nPartner with Product Management and Design to frame problems, define outcomes, and translate strategy into an executable roadmap\n\nAlign cross-team dependencies and coordinate delivery across multiple services and applications\n\nCommunicate status, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders; make decisions thatoptimizefor customer and business impact\n\nMake pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, scalability, maintainability, and cost\n\nEnsure alignment with broader platform and enterprise architecture where appropriate\n\nGuide architecture and technical direction across front end, back end, and platform capabilities; ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable\n\nPartner with Data Engineering and DataAnalyticsto enable reliable data products, feature pipelines, and ML-powered experiences where they create measurable value\n\nEstablish engineering standards for APIs, UI architecture, data contracts, andeventing; ensure alignment with enterprise and platform architecture\n\nOwn technical risk management (security, privacy, resiliency, cost); surface tradeoffs and investment needs early\n\nEnsure strong engineering practices, including testing, observability, and CI/CD\n\nMaintain a high bar for code quality and system design through reviews and hands-on contribution\n\nDrive continuous improvement of the product through iteration, feedback, and learning\n\nEstablish reliability targets (SLOs/SLAs where applicable) and drive continuous improvement in performance, availability, and cost efficiency\n\nBalance short-term delivery with long-term product and technical health, including planned reduction of technical debt\n\nEnsure the team is focused on delivering meaningful impact, not just completing work\n\nCreate clarity on ownership boundaries, decision rights, and interfaces between teams to enable autonomy with alignment\n\nContribute to a Strong Engineering Culture\nPeople leadership: Proven experience managing and growing software engineers across levels and specialtiesin collaboration with Product, Design and Data leadership\n\nFull stack fluency: Comfort guiding modern front end andback-endarchitectures, APIs, and integration patterns\n\nProduct operating model mindset: Outcome-oriented, customer-centered, and skilled at partnering with Product and Design\n\nData & ML experience: Experience delivering data engineering and machine-learning-enabled solutions in production\n\nTechnical judgment: Makes smart tradeoffs, avoids over-engineering, and manages risk proactively\n\nProduct mindset: Cares about users, outcomes, and why things are built\n\nTechnical judgment: Makes smart tradeoffs, avoids over-engineering\n\nOwnership & leadership: Takes initiative and influences decisions\n\nCollaboration: Works effectively with product managers and designers\n\nQualifications\n10+ years of software engineering experience, including building and shipping production-grade applications\n\n3+ years of people management experience leading software engineers (ideally across full stack, front end, and back end)\n\nExperience setting technical direction across services, web/mobile UIs, and cloud platforms; comfortable reviewing architecture and design\n\nExperience partnering with Product and Design in a product operating model (continuous discovery and delivery; outcome-based roadmaps)\n\nWorking knowledge of data engineering and ML delivery patterns (pipelines, feature stores/serving, model lifecycle, monitoring)\n\nExperience building and shipping production-grade applications\n\nProficiencyin modern programming languages and frameworks (frontend and backend)\n\nExperience working with APIs, distributed systems, and cloud environments\n\nExperience leading multiple teams or a larger engineering group with shared services and cross-team dependencies\n\nExperience building internal platforms or reusable components that accelerate delivery across product teams\n\nExperience with modern cloud and data stacks (e.g., container platforms, event streaming, data warehouses/lakehouses)\n\nExperience operationalizing ML (MLOps, model monitoring, responsible AI practices, experimentation)\n\nStrong stakeholder management skills across technology, product, and business partners\n\nExperience contributing to product discovery or solution design, not just delivery\n\nTrack recordof technical leadership within a team (formal or informal)\n\nExperience building customer-facing products\n\nFamiliarity with modern engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, observability)\n\nEducation\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field\n\nEquivalent practical experience is equally valued\n\nWho Thrives Here\nEngineers who:\nAre curious about customers and how products create value\n\nEnjoy collaborating and debating ideas across disciplines\n\nTake pride in both what they build and why it matters\n\nWho This Role Is Not For\nThis role may not be the right fit if you:\nPrefer working from detailed requirements with limited ambiguity\n\nWant to focus primarily on coding without engaging in product decisions\n\nAre most comfortable in highly structured, delivery-driven environments\n\nThe Coca-Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.Skills:\nPay Range:\nUnited States: 202,000 - 229,000 USD\nBase pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.\nAnnual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:\n30Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.\nLocation(s):\nUnited States of AmericaCity/Cities:\nAtlantaTravel Required:\n00% - 25%Relocation Provided:\nNoJob Posting End Date:\nOctober 14, 2026Our Purpose and Growth Culture:\nWe are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors - curious, empowered, inclusive and agile - and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.\nWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. 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