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Software Development Manager

Chewy

Bellevue, WA
Full Time
Senior
26 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

Chewy is seeking a full-stack Software Engineering leader to join our Site Analytics Engineering team. In this player-coach role, you will lead a small team that designs, builds, and maintains the applications and services powering Chewy's web and app analytics and experimentation platforms. You'll collaborate closely with storefront engineers and cross-functional team members to ensure seamless integration and high performance across web and mobile platforms. The Site Analytics Engineering team is responsible for data and analytics infrastructure - we empower our team members with high quality data services, behavioral (Clickstream) event tracking, and experimentation (A/B testing) platform capabilities. As a Senior Engineer, you will help define the technical direction of our event-driven analytics platform and lead the development of scalable, reliable backend systems that enable actionable insights and measurable business impact.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems, APIs, and microservices that power Chewy's internal clickstream analytics, experimentation, and data platforms.
  • Develop and operate event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka to support real-time data collection, streaming, and integration, ensuring data accuracy and consistency across analytics pipelines.
  • Architect and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS in partnership with DevOps, with a focus on scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
  • Implement robust, fault-tolerant data services that ingest, process, and deliver trillions of daily events to downstream systems, supporting operational dashboards, reporting, and experimentation frameworks.
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, and contribute to code reviews, design discussions, and CI/CD best practices to ensure code quality and continuous delivery.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Git-based workflows to deploy scalable, containerized applications. Champion infrastructure-as-code standard methodologies across the team.
  • Ensure reliability and performance of critical services through observability (e.g., Datadog, Grafana), active monitoring, and resolution of performance bottlenecks in high-throughput environments.
  • Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms, including SSO, RBAC, IAM policies, secrets management, and vulnerability mitigation.
  • Collaborate multi-functionally with frontend engineers, data engineers, data scientists, and product managers to understand requirements and translate them into backend solutions aligned with Chewy's business goals.
  • Drive a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement through documentation, mentorship, and collaboration, while upholding Chewy's standards for data security, compliance, and partner trust.
  • Articulate complex technical ideas (e.g., why a unified metric needs a certain definition, or how a new infrastructure change will reduce latency) to both technical and non-technical partners.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, leading the design or architecture of large-scale systems in data-intensive environments.
  • 2+ years of experience directly managing backend or full-stack engineers, with a track record of delivering high-impact platform solutions.
  • Proficiency in Java or Kotlin, with strong knowledge of building high-scale distributed systems and microservices.
  • Experience building and deploying containerized applications and services using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Expertise in event-driven architecture design with a focus on scalability and fault tolerance.
  • Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms.
  • Strong familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, CloudWatch.
  • Knowledge of modern data stores and query engines including Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, or Amazon Redshift.
  • Experience with Terraform and observability tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace, CloudWatch, and Grafana.
  • Previous work on data platforms, experimentation frameworks, or site analytics in a high-growth or e-commerce setting.
  • Proficiency in SQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) for schema design, query optimization, and data modeling.

Nice to Have

  • Frontend development skills using TypeScript/JavaScript
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Job Details

Posted AtJul 1, 2025
SalaryCompetitive salary
Job TypeFull Time
ExperienceSenior

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About Chewy

Website

chewy.com

Company Size

10000+ employees

Location

Bellevue, WA

Industry

Pet and Pet Supplies Retailers

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