Description:
Chewy is hiring a Software Development Manager for our Pet Health Engineering team. This is a high-profile leadership position with exposure across the entire business, influencing the vision and implementation of both architecture, design and features. Chewy has a unique Pet Health ecosystem – selling prescriptions and vet diet, compounding (prescription manufacturing), insurance, vet video appointments – connected to our huge retail business. In this role you will lead a team of strong engineers and other disciplines partnering with Product and Design team members delivering high impact initiatives. The role will have tremendous visibility in the technology & business organization of Chewy.
What you'll do:
- Manage a team of software engineers and TPMs responsible for building Chewy’s Pet Health Clinic Enrollment portal and its underlying services.
- 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 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
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 (mobile or web application development, test automation, or release engineering domains)
- 5-8 years of experience in Software Development as a software engineer
- Solid fundamental background in multiple testing disciplines (e.g. APIs, Functional UI testing, Performance testing, data-oriented systems test, distributed systems, etc)
- Familiarity with multiple technology stacks including both static and dynamic programming languages along with any frontend web technologies like React
- Proven delivery experience working under an Agile/Scrum methodology
- Must be more than proficient at both written and spoken English