Software Development Manager

Our Team:

Chewy’s Pet Health is on a mission to build innovative solutions for our customers and our partner vets, such as our recent launch of Chewy’s first Telehealth service and Compounding Pharmacy. Engineering plays a meaningful role in defining and implementing our platform roadmap. We take time to understand the “why” before we start crafting up the “how.” We celebrate engineering successes and promote blameless and continuous learning and improvement in engineering culture. We set the bar high for delivering production-ready code by adopting CI/CD and DevOps engineering best practices. Our engineers are encouraged to contribute ideas and code to our own platform and to other partner teams.

Your Role:

As a Software Development Manager (SDM) on the Pet Health Content team in Boston, MA, you will act as both an individual contributor and lead a team of skilled full stack engineers building services for Chewy’s Pet Health Content initiatives, focused heavily on pet health and wellness. This is a high-profile position that will have exposure across the entire business, influencing the vision and implementation of architecture, design and features for this new and growing line of business. As the leader of a dynamic team, this role offers a tremendous opportunity for professional growth in the leading online pet retailer in the US.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and lead a team of 6-8 full stack software engineers responsible for building Chewy’s new Pet Health Content initiatives
• Review system architecture, design, and implementations, and provide feedback to individual contributors

• Develop, maintain, and improve upon a culture of operational excellence with consistent, repeatable processes and standards

• Partner with our recruiting team to continue hiring your team and mentor the growth of the current hardworking team

• Drive technical decisions and work with your partner TPM to plan, track, and deliver software projects

• Establish strong working relationships at all organizational levels and across functional teams
• Collaborate with others in Engineering Management to drive standard methodologies in software design, development, testing, and production deployment
• Work with your technical product manager and product owners to balance delivery of forward-looking roadmap initiatives with the existing backlog of iterative improvements and maintenance, in partnership with multiple support multiple teams
• Identify and lead team priorities and deliveries within the context of overall Chewy objectives

Minimum Qualifications:

• Demonstrated history of implementing and managing multiple, significant software development projects
• 3+ years of experience in formal Engineering Management of direct reports
• 3+ years of experience in Full Stack Software Development as a software engineer or architect (this is a role that requires in-depth knowledge of both backend systems and front-end applications)
• Experience managing both high and low performers, including promoting within your team(s)
• Proven delivery experience working under an Agile/Scrum methodology
• Prior hands-on experience with designing, building and deploying scalable, highly available systems
• Strong communication skills with both technical and business audiences
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or a related field) or equivalent work experience.
• Position may require travel

Preferred:

• Experience in e-commerce or Healthcare
• Experience using and managing teams that are using Content Management Software (preferably WordPress)
• Experience delivering projects via Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
• Relevant Java ecosystem experience- preferably Spring Boot based applications
• Relevant experience in front-end frameworks, preferably ReactJS
• Relevant experience with cloud & orchestration technologies (AWS Services, Terraform, HELM, Ansible, etc)