Lead multiple scrum teams to deliver a scalable software platform for the pharmacy business, providing mentorship and strategic direction while influencing architecture and design.
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Are you looking for more than just a job? At Chewy, you'll find yourself on a career path alongside other incredible people-like yourself. You'll join a team that values everything you do, who you are, and the goals you've set for your career. We want to give you the opportunity to grow, earn competitive pay, and be happy while you do it. Sounds simple, but we love it.
Our Opportunity:
Chewy is hiring a Director of Engineering.. You will be in a high-profile position which will have exposure across the entire Pharmacy business, influencing the vision and implementation of architecture, design and features for this critical business line.
What You'll Do:
What You'll Need:
Bonus:
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].
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Are you looking for more than just a job? At Chewy, you'll find yourself on a career path alongside other incredible people-like yourself. You'll join a team that values everything you do, who you are, and the goals you've set for your career. We want to give you the opportunity to grow, earn competitive pay, and be happy while you do it. Sounds simple, but we love it.
Our Opportunity:
Chewy is hiring a Director of Engineering.. You will be in a high-profile position which will have exposure across the entire Pharmacy business, influencing the vision and implementation of architecture, design and features for this critical business line.
What You'll Do:
- You will be tasked with running multiple scrum teams comprised of software development managers and software engineers to maintain and deliver high quality software of a mission critical Pharmacy platform
- Provide strong technical leadership, build autonomous teams & deliver on an ambitious roadmap while meeting strict SLAs
- Mentor technical leaders and provide career development and professional growth of our amazing engineers and managers
- Establish strong working relationships at all organizational levels and across functional teams across Business, Product, Design and Operations
- Work with others in engineering management to drive best practices in software development, testing and production operations
- Contribute to technical architecture decisions and lead efforts to build and maintain a highly scalable software platform
What You'll Need:
- 12+ years of experience building commercial software and relevant experience in leadership roles within engineering organizations
- Must be a believer in Agile and Lean methodologies and have experience in evolving them at scale
- A track record of highly influential technical and leadership achievements, strong and current technical contributions
- Strategic manager with strong operational, project management and technical architecture skills
- Ability to excel within a VERY fast paced startup environment with a flat organizational structure and provide hands-on leadership to our top-tier engineers. Must have start up experience
- Experienced in leading managers, as well as, highly skilled senior engineers/architects
- BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
- Position may require travel
Bonus:
- E-commerce experience
- Java ecosystem experience
- AWS ecosystem experience
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 Customer Privacy Policy, please click here.
To access Chewy's California CPRA Job Applicant Privacy Policy, please click here.
Top Skills
AWS
Java
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