Petco · 8 hours ago
Director, Software Engineering
San Diego, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$195K/yr - $292K/yr
12+ years expPetco is dedicated to improving the lives of pets and their owners, and they are seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead technology strategy for their commerce platform. This role involves managing cross-functional teams, influencing product development, and ensuring the delivery of technical solutions that align with business needs.
WellnessPetAnimal FeedNutrition
Responsibilities
Responsible for long-range technology strategy planning for our commerce platform and integrated systems
Works with technical leaders to define and refine vision, architecture, and stack; leads efforts to make timely technical decisions
Manages policy development to address complex business issues, provides leadership to cross-functional teams
Partners with Product Development team to influence what is built for business consumption
Advocates for enterprise technology initiatives in the enterprise technology backlog structure
Identifies interdependencies and emerging trends across interrelated technology efforts and programs to continuously improve products and services
Partners with Program/Project and Tech SMEs to create realistic roadmaps and set expectations with customers; stays close to the product, guides the process to ensure accurate and timely delivery
Leverages engineering, problem solving and influencing skills to ensure process and risk management solutions are also technically sound
Coordinates outsourced engineering effort from teams with differing skill sets
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other related fields, or equivalent work experience
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
Requires advanced technical and business knowledge in software development life cycle, quality assurance, project management and other related disciplines/processes
Benefits
Health and financial benefits
401K
Incentives
PTO
Company
Petco
Where the Pets Go. Celebrating 60 years of helping pets live their best life!
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Ron Coughlin
Chief Executive Officer
Larry Rutkowski
Executive Vice President / Chief Financial Officer
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