Associate Director, Software Engineering

Our Opportunity:

We are looking for an Associate Director, Software Engineering at our facility in Bellevue, WA to manage a team of software engineers and other disciplines responsible for building Chewy’s Customer Engagement Platform.

What You’ll Do: 

• 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 managers and 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 overall corporate objectives, drive 1-, 2- and 3-year plans.
• Work with others in Engineering Management to drive best practices in software development, testing, and production deployment.
• 5% domestic travel required.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field, and 8 years of experience.
• Will accept Masters and 6 years of experience.
• Experience must include 6 years with: engineering management; implementing and managing significant software development projects (APIs, data stores, rules engines, scaling web application development);
• Multiple testing disciplines (e.g. APIs, Functional UI testing, Performance testing, data-oriented systems test, distributed systems, etc);
• Working with very large data sets and Data Science methodologies.
• Experience must also include: software engineering;
• Multiple technology stacks including both static and dynamic programming languages as well as building data pipelines;
• Agile/Scrum methodology.
• 5% domestic travel required.
• The position is eligible for the Employee Referral Program.

Compensation & Benefits:

Our salary range for an Associate Director, Software Engineering position is $229,986 to $255,000. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant.

We offer different types of insurance, such as medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident. We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com.

Non-exempt hourly team members accrue paid time off (PTO) while salaried-exempt team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Non-exempt hourly team members in Fulfillment Centers and Customer Service are also eligible for additional unplanned unpaid time off (UTO). Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.