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Job Summary:

Chewy is seeking a full-stack Software Development Manager for their Site Analytics Engineering team in Bellevue, WA. In this player-coach role, you will lead a team to develop and maintain applications for analytics and experimentation platforms, ensuring high performance across web and mobile platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team that is designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend systems, APIs, and microservices that enable 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 lead cloud infrastructure on AWS in partnership with DevOps, with an emphasis 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.

• Guide your team to 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 an engineering environment that prioritizes technical excellence and continuous improvement through documentation, mentorship, and partnership, while upholding Chewy’s standards for data security, compliance, and partner trust.

• Crafting innovative 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.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 6+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, building and contributing to 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 building and delivering high-impact platform solutions.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or similar math/engineering subject area) or equivalent professional work experience.

• Proficiency in Java or Kotlin, with a strong understanding 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 proficiency with Apache Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms.

• Strong proficiency 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 building 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.

Preferred:

• Frontend development skills using TypeScript/JavaScript.

Company:

Chewy is a pet store that offers products, services, supplies, and prescriptions for pet parents and partners with online services. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Plantation, Florida, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Public Company. Chewy has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.