Overview

Director, Software Engineering (Digital Front-end Engineering)

Petco is a category-defining health and wellness company focused on improving the lives of pets, pet parents and Petco partners. We are 29,000 strong and operate 1,500+ pet care centers in the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico, including 250+ Vetco Total Care hospitals, hundreds of preventive care clinics and eight distribution centers. We’re focused on purpose-driven work, and strongly believe what’s good for pets, people and our planet is good for Petco.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Responsible for long-range technology strategy planning for our commerce platform and integrated systems
• Work with technical leaders to define and refine vision, architecture, and stack; lead efforts to make timely technical decisions
• Manage policy development to address complex business issues; provide leadership to cross-functional teams
• Partner with Product Development to influence what is built for business consumption
• Advocate for enterprise technology initiatives in the enterprise technology backlog structure
• Identify interdependencies and emerging trends across interrelated technology efforts to continuously improve products and services
• Partner with Program/Project and Tech SMEs to create realistic roadmaps and set expectations with customers; stay close to the product, guide the process to ensure accurate and timely delivery
• Leverage engineering, problem solving and influencing skills to ensure process and risk management solutions are technically sound
• Coordinate outsourced engineering effort from teams with differing skill sets

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related fields, or equivalent work experience
• Hands-on experience with React.js, Node.js, and Next.js
• Experience with frontend architecture, component design for high-traffic websites (prefer e-commerce related)
• AWS & Application observability
• 12+ years of IT and business industry work experience in managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders
• Advanced technical and business knowledge in software development life cycle, quality assurance, project management and related disciplines/processes

Salary & Benefits

The pay ranges outlined below are presented in accordance with state-specific regulations. These ranges may differ in other areas and could be subject to variation based on regulatory minimum wage requirements. Actual pay rates will depend on factors such as position, location, level of experience, and applicable state or local minimum wage laws.

Salary Range: $194,600.00 - $291,900.00

Hourly or Salary Range will be reflected above. For a detailed overview of Petco Total Rewards, including health and financial benefits, 401K, incentives, and PTO, see https://careers.petco.com/us/en/key-benefits

EEO Statement

Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or any other protected classification.

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