Lead a team of engineers to develop scalable software solutions for Chewy's Pet Insurance, ensuring high performance and operational excellence.
Our Team:
Chewy's Pet Health is on a mission to build innovative solutions for our customers and our partner vets. We are actively expanding our ecosystem with services such as our Telehealth platform ('Connect with a Vet'), our Compounding Pharmacy, and the recent launch and ongoing expansion of our in-person Chewy Vet Care clinics. Our engineering teams are at the forefront of defining and executing our platform roadmap. We take time to understand the "why" before we begin to develop the solution. We celebrate engineering successes and promote a blameless and continuous learning and improvement engineering culture. We maintain high standards for delivering production-ready code by adopting CI/CD and DevOps engineering best practices. We empower our engineers to contribute innovative ideas and code across our platform and in collaboration with partner teams.
Our Opportunity:
As a Software Development Manager (SDM) on the Pet Health development team based in Boston, MA, you will be a technical, hands-on leader, guiding a full-stack engineering team to deliver impactful solutions for Chewy's Pet Health initiatives. This is a high-profile position offering significant business exposure and the opportunity to influence the architecture, design, and features for a rapidly growing line of business. This leadership role offers a tremendous opportunity to drive innovation and achieve significant professional growth within the leading comprehensive pet care company.
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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Chewy's Pet Health is on a mission to build innovative solutions for our customers and our partner vets. We are actively expanding our ecosystem with services such as our Telehealth platform ('Connect with a Vet'), our Compounding Pharmacy, and the recent launch and ongoing expansion of our in-person Chewy Vet Care clinics. Our engineering teams are at the forefront of defining and executing our platform roadmap. We take time to understand the "why" before we begin to develop the solution. We celebrate engineering successes and promote a blameless and continuous learning and improvement engineering culture. We maintain high standards for delivering production-ready code by adopting CI/CD and DevOps engineering best practices. We empower our engineers to contribute innovative ideas and code across our platform and in collaboration with partner teams.
Our Opportunity:
As a Software Development Manager (SDM) on the Pet Health development team based in Boston, MA, you will be a technical, hands-on leader, guiding a full-stack engineering team to deliver impactful solutions for Chewy's Pet Health initiatives. This is a high-profile position offering significant business exposure and the opportunity to influence the architecture, design, and features for a rapidly growing line of business. This leadership role offers a tremendous opportunity to drive innovation and achieve significant professional growth within the leading comprehensive pet care company.
What You'll Do:
- Lead a team of 8 full-stack software engineers responsible for building Chewy's new Pet Health initiatives using Java, Spring Boot, and React, deploying on AWS.
- Foster, maintain, and improve upon a culture of operational excellence with consistent, repeatable processes and standards, emphasizing technical depth and hands-on leadership.
- Establish strong working relationships across functional teams and collaborate with Engineering Management to drive best practices in software design, development, testing, and production deployment for full-stack solutions.
- Partner with product owners to define and manage team priorities, balancing roadmap initiatives with iterative platform improvements.
- Partner with our recruiting team to continue forming your team and mentor the growth of the existing team members
What You'll Need:
- 5+ years of experience in Software Development as a software engineer or architect, with strong experience in full-stack development including Java/Spring Boot and React, and a demonstrated history of implementing and managing multiple, significant software development projects with hands-on involvement.
- 2+ years of experience in Engineering Management, with a proven ability to lead, mentor technical teams, and deliver projects under Agile/Scrum.
- Experience delivering projects via CI/CD in an AWS cloud environment, including designing, building, and deploying scalable, highly available systems using microservices architecture and containerization technologies (Docker/Kubernetes).
- Strong communication skills with both technical and business audiences
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or a similar math/engineering subject area.
- Position may require travel
Bonus:
- Experience in e-commerce or Healthcare
- Relevant experience with cloud & orchestration technologies (AWS Services like EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS; Terraform, HELM, Ansible, etc)
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
Ansible
Aws Services
Helm
Java
React
Spring Boot
Terraform
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