Lead technical direction and product delivery across engineering domains, scaling teams, ensuring high-quality solutions, and driving agile practices.
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Associate Director of Engineering
Boston, MA - IT - Healthcare - Full time - R29810
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What you'll do:
What you'll need:
Employer: Chewy, Inc.
Office Address: 343 Congress Street, Boston, MA 02210
The base salary range for this role is $238,285.00 to $249,000.00 per year.
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.
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 [email protected].
To access Chewy's California CPRA Job Applicant Privacy Policy, please click here.
Associate Director of Engineering
Boston, MA - IT - Healthcare - Full time - R29810
Job Description:
What you'll do:
- Lead technical direction, product delivery, and roadmap execution across multiple engineering domains, working closely with product, design, and business counterparts to translate strategic business goals into engineering solutions.
- Build and scale self-sufficient, autonomous teams with full ownership of end-to-end delivery.
- Emphasize the delivery of high-quality, resilient solutions that directly enhance the customer experience and drive business impact.
- Lead initiatives to implement scalable engineering processes, including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), automated testing, and standardized release practices to ensure consistency, speed, and quality in software delivery.
- Establish clear and measurable goals for engineering teams, providing ongoing coaching and feedback to engineering managers and individual contributors.
- Collaborate with engineering leadership across various teams to influence architecture standards, drive alignment on technical direction, and ensure best practices are upheld throughout the organization.
- Ensure smooth collaboration across cross-functional teams to meet shared goals.
- 10% domestic travel required.
- Supervises 12 direct reports - 5 Long term contractors Software Engineer II; 1 Software Engineer I; 3 Software Engineer II; 1 Software Engineer III.
What you'll need:
- Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math, or related field, plus 7 years of experience as an Architectural and Engineering Managers or a related position/occupation.
- Alternate Education and Experience: Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math, or related field, plus 5 years of experience as an Architectural and Engineering Managers or a related position/occupation.
- Experience must include 4 years with:
- Agile and Scrum methodologies;
- Manage large, complex, cross-functional projects;
- Drive agile practices and adapt workflows to ensure efficiency;
- Architect, build, and deploy highly available, scalable systems;
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines;
- Containerization tools such as Docker and deployment tools like Jenkins;
- Cloud platforms, particularly AWS, or other cloud service providers such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Microsoft Azure;
- Healthcare, catalog & inventory management, pharmacy, Pharmacy Information Management Systems (PIMS), or other regulated platforms; and
- Leverage cloud technologies to scale applications and enhance system reliability.
Employer: Chewy, Inc.
Office Address: 343 Congress Street, Boston, MA 02210
The base salary range for this role is $238,285.00 to $249,000.00 per year.
- 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.
- 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 [email protected].
To access Chewy's California CPRA Job Applicant Privacy Policy, please click here.
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