Software Development Manager, Platform Engineering

Job Description:

Our Opportunity:

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.

What You’ll Do:

• 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

What You’ll Need:

• 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

Bonus:

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

• 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. C08+ positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.

We offer different types of insurance and benefits, 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. 

Exempt salary team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. 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. 

Chewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact

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