Ad, Engineering

Chewy Chewy · Retail · Boston, MA

Associate Director of Engineering role focused on leading technical direction, product delivery, and roadmap execution for engineering teams. Responsibilities include building and scaling autonomous teams, implementing scalable engineering processes like CI/CD and automated testing, establishing goals, and influencing architecture standards. Requires experience in Agile methodologies, managing complex projects, deploying scalable systems, CI/CD, containerization, cloud platforms (AWS), and regulated platforms in healthcare/pharmacy. The role involves supervising direct reports and contractors.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. Build and scale self-sufficient, autonomous teams with full ownership of end-to-end delivery.
  3. Emphasize the delivery of high-quality, resilient solutions that directly enhance the customer experience and drive business impact.
  4. 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.
  5. Establish clear and measurable goals for engineering teams, providing ongoing coaching and feedback to engineering managers and individual contributors.

Skills

Required

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Leverage cloud technologies to scale applications and enhance system reliability.

What the JD emphasized

  • Healthcare, catalog & inventory management, pharmacy, Pharmacy Information Management Systems (PIMS), or other regulated platforms