Associate Director, Software Engineering

Our Opportunity:

Chewy’s mission is to empower pet parents to make smarter decisions about products for their pets. We do that by making the industry transparent through artificial intelligence and data. As a part of that mission, the Core Application Platform team builds platforms and framework cross cutting across applications powering chewy.com. The engineering team will be responsible for building highly scalable platforms catered to support Chewy’s growth and business development.

About the Role

What you'll do:

• Build highly scalable, available platforms that can power millions of hits per day that is extremely fault tolerant and performs at ecommerce scale
• Recruit, hire, and mentor exceptional engineers, quality and data scientists
• Work with engineering leaders, product development, operations, support, and other internal stakeholders to define requirements, guide product and architectural vision, and prioritize efforts.
• Ensure timely and consistent communication to facilitate a clear understanding of ongoing projects and their prioritization within the organization
• Manage an active research agenda aimed at generating innovations to solve business needs and technical challenges (including outside research)
• Integrate research into a technical roadmap for product development
• Iterate quickly in an agile development process
• Create a dynamic, collaborative and fun team environment
• Engage team in conferences and external activities that facilitate staying abreast of the latest cutting-edge technologies and approaches

What you'll need:

• A thought leader. You can think ahead and build platforms for the future. You can communicate and command the respect of executives and developers.
• 12+ years in Software engineering
• 8+ years of development experience with Java/Spring boot including full life cycle activities
• 4+ years of API development or engineering delivery experience
• 3+ years of development and delivery experience in AWS
• 5 + experience in technical lead position and providing technical guidance to team
• Experience working across fully automated stacks in a CI/CD ecosystem
• Experience building highly scalable applications with a sound architecture background
• Experience with distributed data stores at scale
• Experience working with emerging technologies
• Experience working effectively across multiple functional areas in a matrixed environment
• Experience with test case automation
• Knowledge of cloud technologies, such as AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud.
• Degree in computer science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics or another related field.
• Experience presenting to senior leadership
• Position may require some travel

Bonus:

• Strong engineering background building Products that are ecommerce scale
• Prior roles in Ecommerce or in technology companies
• AWS Certification