Chewy

Director, Software Engineering

Chewy, Boston

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Our Opportunity
Chewy is hiring a Director of Engineering. You will be in a high-profile position which will have exposure across the entire Pharmacy business, influencing the vision and implementation of architecture, design and features for this critical business line.
What You'll Do

You will be tasked with running multiple scrum teams comprised of software development managers and software engineers to maintain and deliver high quality software of a mission critical Pharmacy platform
Provide strong technical leadership, build autonomous teams & deliver on an ambitious roadmap while meeting strict SLAs
Mentor technical leaders and provide career development and professional growth of our amazing engineers and managers
Establish strong working relationships at all organizational levels and across functional teams across Business, Product, Design and Operations
Work with others in engineering management to drive best practices in software development, testing and production operations
Contribute to technical architecture decisions and lead efforts to build and maintain a highly scalable software platform

What You'll Need

12+ years of experience building commercial software and relevant experience in leadership roles within engineering organizations
Must be a believer in Agile and Lean methodologies and have experience in evolving them at scale
A track record of highly influential technical and leadership achievements, strong and current technical contributions
Strategic manager with strong operational, project management and technical architecture skills
Ability to excel within a VERY fast paced startup environment with a flat organizational structure and provide hands-on leadership to our top-tier engineers. Must have start up experience
Experienced in leading managers, as well as, highly skilled senior engineers/architects
BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
Position may require travel

Bonus

E-commerce experience
Java ecosystem experience
AWS ecosystem experience

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Seniority level

Seniority level
Director

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Retail

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