Software Engineer II

Our Opportunity

We are hiring a Software Engineer II to join the Developer Experience team in Boston, MA . At Chewy, it is our mission to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents (and partners) everywhere. The Infrastructure Engineering organization develops services and tools to enable, support, and optimize software development processes and practices for Chewy engineers. In this role, you will develop new customer-facing features, enhance existing systems with automation, and improve observability of business applications that power the e-commerce platform and beyond. Further, you will have the opportunity to collaborate across the engineering organization to deliver self-service solutions which empower internal customers to move rapidly while building on Chewy's enterprise platforms.

What You'll Do

• Apply algorithms, data structures, and design patterns to build scalable and performant code
• Architect a resilient system for a customer-facing web application from scratch
• Partner with stakeholders and technology teams on how to best implement desired customer features and enhancements
• Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development
• Collaborate with Team Members to drive automated solutions to standardize methodologies, workflows, reusable modules, and tooling
• Contribute to team's standard processes for logging, testing, instrumentation, metrics, monitors, alerts, practices, and processes
• Conduct design and code reviews and raise the bar on engineering rigor and standard
• You will participate in setting guidelines for evolving development practices, as well as mentoring junior engineers
• Actively participate in scrum ceremonies such as grooming, planning, demos and retrospective
• Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshooting production issues and improving operational excellence

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or similar; or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of strong Java programming experience
• 3+ years of strong programming experience with frontend technologies like React, Typescript, NodeJS
• Ability to think independently and break down product requirements into well-defined tasks
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to ensure development efforts align with stakeholder needs
• Experience in monitoring production environment, troubleshooting, triaging and addressing production issues
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or similar tool
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms
• Experience with designing, building and deploying scalable, highly available systems

Bonus

• Experience in e-commerce
• Experience in Python
• Experience with agile methodologies a plus
• Experience with modern tools and environments (e.g. version control systems, bug/issue tracking tools
• The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate's relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant. C08+ positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.

We offer different types of insurance and benefits, such as medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident. We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com.

Exempt salary team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.

Chewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact View email address on click.appcast.io.

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