Our Opportunity:

Chewy is hiring a Software Development Manager for our Pet Health Engineering Data team in Boston, MA. This is a leadership position with exposure across the business, influencing the vision and implementation of architecture, design and features for this new business. Chewy has a unique Pet Health ecosystem – selling prescriptions and vet diet, compounding (prescription manufacturing), insurance, vet video appointments – connected to our huge retail business. In this role you will lead a team of strong backend engineers to build services for Chewy’s pet health platform. The role will have wide visibility in the technology & business organization of Chewy.

What You’ll Do:

• Manage a team of backend software engineers to building Chewy’s Pet Health platform
• Recruit and hire new engineers and mentor the growth of the existing team
• Drive technical decisions and work with product management and across non-technical organizations to prioritize and drive engineering investments.
• Review implementations, provide feedback for individual contributors
• Establish strong working relationships at all organizational levels and across functional teams
• Collaborate on design and implementation of scalable environments for development and testing
• Identify and manage priorities within the context of Team objectives, drive 1-year plans.
• Work with others in Engineering Management to drive best practices in software development, testing, and production deployment

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s Degree (MIS or CS preferred) or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrated history of implementing and managing significant software development projects (APIs, data stores, rules engines, scaling web application development)
• Ability to turn complex challenges into organized, scaling, technical solution
• 6+ years of experience in Software Development as a software engineer
• 1+ years of experience in Engineering Management, experience managing a 6+ person team through multiple release cycles.
• Solid fundamental background in testing disciplines (e.g. APIs, Functional UI testing, Performance testing, data-oriented systems test, distributed systems, etc)
• Familiarity with different technology stacks including both static and dynamic programming languages (we primarily use Java, but are not limited to Java/JVM tools), as well as building data pipelines.
• Proven delivery experience working under an Agile/Scrum methodology
• Must be more than proficient at both written and spoken English

Bonus (if applicable):

• Experience driving cross-team engineering excellence initiatives
• Understanding of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
• Experience building applications using AWS services

Chewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact CAAR@chewy.com.

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