Full-Time

Associate Director

Software Engineering

Posted on 1/16/2025

Chewy

Chewy

Expert

Boston, MA, USA

Category
Backend Engineering
Full-Stack Engineering
Software Engineering
Required Skills
AWS
SCRUM

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Requirements
  • Candidates possess a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of experience in Software Development as a software engineer
  • 5+ years of experience in Engineering Management
  • Exceptional leadership and communication skills.
  • Strong fundamentals on building and scaling cloud-based solutions (AWS).
  • Proficiency in designing scalable, distributed, low latency and high throughput systems.
  • Must be able to identify and manage priorities within the context of overall Advertising business objectives based on data driven decision making.
  • Position may require occasional travel.
Responsibilities
  • Own, lead, and manage roadmap of a full-stack software team that develops features for advertisers across campaign management, creative management, reporting and launch high impact features.
  • Own and manage multiple services across Chewy and follow service oriented architecture.
  • Manage team(s) of software engineers, managers, and other disciplines responsible for building Chewy’s Advertising solution.
  • Recruit, hire new engineers and mentor to promote the growth of the existing team.
  • Evolve team’s charter organically to evolve into multiple scrum-teams driven by defined ownership of software modules.
  • Drive technical decisions and work with product management and across non-technical organizations to prioritize and drive engineering investments.
  • Review design 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.
  • Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development. Decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions that operationally scale and are easily maintained.
  • Actively mentor engineers, build and foster a strong engineering team culture, and be a key contributor in raising the bar of the engineering org.
  • Exhibit excellent verbal and written communication and convey dissenting opinions in a constructive manner.
Desired Qualifications
  • Masters or PhD in Computer Science or related field.
  • Experience working with display ads systems will be huge plus.
  • Machine Learning and applied science understanding is a plus.
  • Experience and Domain expertise in digital advertising or marketing technologies or eCommerce/Retail technology stack will be a plus.
  • Demonstrated experience taking a project from inception through launch.

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