Our Opportunity:At Chewy we are looking for an Associate Director, Software Engineering for the Order Routing Team within the Supply Chain organization. Order routing team is one of the most critical groups within Supply chain & Chewy, responsible for routing every Chewy order to the most optimal fulfillment center.
Our vision is to be the best-in-class order routing system that yields the best customer experience at the lowest cost for the company. We improve customer experience via faster fulfilment using fewer packages.As the leader of the ORS group, you'll be part of core leadership team and will influence technical strategy and vision for building best in the class order routing system.
You'll be leading a team of smart engineers and managers and will be at forefront of driving technology driven business impact. You will collaborate with Data scientists working on building different models for solving the routing problem. At Chewy, Associate Director will interact with product managers, cross-functional tech-leaders, principal engineers and drive innovative initiatives delivering value for our customers and stakeholders.
What You'll Do:Own, lead, and manage roadmap of large-scale distributed systems that process and serve large volumes of data and operate with very low latency.Recruit, hire new engineers and mentor to promote the growth of the existing team.Evolve team's charter organically to evolve into multiple scrum-teams driven by defined ownership of software modules.
Drive technical decisions and work with product management and across non-technical organizations to prioritize and drive engineering investments.Review design implementations, provide feedback for managers and individual contributors.Establish strong working relationships at all organizational levels and across functional teams.
Collaborate on design and implementation of scalable environments for development and testing.Identify and manage priorities within the context of overall corporate objectives, drive 1-, 3- and 5-year plans.Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
Decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions that operationally scale and are easily maintained.Actively mentor engineers, build and foster a strong engineering team culture, and be a key contributor in raising the bar of the engineering org.Exhibit excellent verbal and written communication and convey dissenting opinions in a constructive manner.
What You'll Need:Candidates possess a Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related field, or equivalent experience.7+ years of experience in Software Development as a software engineer5+ years of experience in Engineering ManagementExceptional leadership and communication skills.Strong fundamentals on building and scaling cloud-based solutions (AWS).
Proficiency in designing scalable, distributed, low latency and high throughput systems.Must be able to identify and manage priorities within the context of overall supply chain business objectives based on data driven decision making.Position may require occasional travel.
Bonus:Master's or PhD in Computer Science or related field.Machine Learning and applied science understanding is a plus.Experience and Domain expertise in Supply chain or Operational or eCommerce/Retail technology stack will be a plus.
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Job SummaryJob number: 5195132Date posted : 2023-07-19Profession: Supply Chain & TransportationEmployment type: Full time.