Software Development Manager, Platform Engineering

Chewy•Boston, MA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Chewy is hiring a Software Development Manager for our Platform Engineering team in Boston, MA. This is a leadership position with exposure across the business, influencing the vision and implementation of high profile architecture, design and features for teams across the company. Chewy has a operational, DevOps and AI technology footprint. In this role you will lead a team of strong full stack engineers to build services for all of Chewy to help the whole company run services well. The role will have wide visibility in the technology & business organization of Chewy.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Manage a team of full stack software engineers to building Chewy’s engineering platforms
Recruit and hire new engineers and mentor the growth of the existing team
Drive technical decisions and work across technical and 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

Benefits

401k
new hire and annual equity grant
annual bonus
medical/Rx insurance
vision insurance
dental insurance
life insurance
disability insurance
hospital indemnity insurance
critical illness insurance
accident insurance
parental leave
family services benefits
backup dependent care
flexible spending accounts
telemedicine
pet adoption reimbursement
employee assistance program
employee discounts
10% off pet insurance
20% off at Chewy.com
unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval
six paid holidays per year
paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations