Associate Director, Software Engineering – Content Platform

Chewy is hiring an Associate Director for our Content Platform team in Minneapolis, MN Or Boston , MA Or Seattle, WA.

This is a high-profile position that will have exposure across the entire business, influencing the vision and implementation of architecture, design and features.

As part of a dynamic team, this role offers a tremendous opportunity for professional growth in the leading online pet retailer in the US.

The role will allow you to act as a Leader part of a team of strong engineers building services for expanding content targeting across all key pages (PDP, ELP, account, navigation, NMA), launch content authoring & delivery Engine to allow for full operationalization of targeting as an evergreen strategy used to drive high value actions (HVA) and improve the overall site experience for Chewy customers.

The role will have tremendous visibility in the technology & business organization of Chewy.

More specifically, the role will assume the following responsibilities:

What youll do:

• Build a scalable content platform that can power millions of hits per day that is extremely fault tolerant and performs at ecommerce scale.

• Build a powerful price management system that can support multiple price experiments on a day to day basis.

• Recruit, hire, and mentor exceptional engineers, quality and data scientists.

• Work with product management, product development, operations, customer support, and other internal stakeholders to define requirements, guide product and architectural vision, and prioritize efforts.

• Ensure timely and consistent communication to facilitate a clear understanding of ongoing projects and their prioritization within the organization

• Manage an active research agenda aimed at generating innovations to solve business needs and technical challenges (including outside research)

• Integrate research into a technical roadmap for product development.

• Iterate quickly in an agile development process.

• Create a dynamic, collaborative and fun team environment.

• Engage team in conferences and external activities that facilitate staying abreast of the latest cutting-edge technologies and approaches.

What youll need:

• A thought leader.

You can think ahead and build machine learning for the future.

You can communicate and command the respect of executives and developers.

• 12+ years in Software engineering

• 4+ years API development or engineering

• 4+ years Kafka, No-SQL development

• 8+ years of development experience with Java/Spring boot including full life cycle activities

• 5 + experience in technical lead position and providing technical guidance to team

• Experience working across fully automated stacks in a CI/CD ecosystem

• Experience building highly scalable applications with Event Based Architecture

• Experience with distributed data stores at scale

• Experience working with emerging technologies

• Experience working effectively across multiple functional areas in a matrixed environment

• Experience with test case automation

• Knowledge of cloud technologies, such as AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud.

• Master’s degree in computer science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics or another related field.

• Experience presenting to C-Suite

• Position may require some travel

Bonus :

• Strong engineering background building Products that are ecommerce scale

• Prior roles in Ecommerce or in technology companies