Staff Software Engineer

# Staff Software EngineerChewyFull TimestaffBoston, Massachusetts, US$166k – $265kPosted 21 days ago## Role OverviewChewy is hiring a Staff Software Engineer. This is a full-time role in Boston, Massachusetts. Part of Chewy's Brand hiring, posted 3 weeks ago. The posted range is $166k to $265k. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.## Resume Keywords to IncludeMake sure these keywords appear in your resume to improve ATS scoringJavaGoSpringAWSTerraformAnsibleAgileScrumSign up free to auto-tailor your resume with all these keywords and get a higher ATS score## Job description### Job DescriptionOur Opportunity:Chewy is seeking a Staff Software Engineer our fast-paced, customer-first Sponsored Ads team. This role is instrumental in launching innovative, customer-facing products crafted to delight and engage Chewy’s advertising partners, while scaling our advertising technology and strengthening brand partnerships. As a senior member of the team, you’ll help craft, build, and deliver intuitive, performant, and scalable Display ads experiences that power ad creation, campaign management, creative tools, and performance reporting across Chewy’s digital ecosystem.Sponsored Ads at Chewy builds a state of art ads platform — offering pet parents relevant product options and deals while enabling brand partners to improve transparency and reach through targeted placements. Advertising is a fast-growing, strategically important component of Chewy’s e-commerce platform and a key driver of incremental revenue.In this role, you’ll demonstrate your deep expertise in Ads serving technologies, large scale engineering systerms to lead the development of engaging web experiences for both advertisers and pet-parents as Chewy shoppers. As an early member of the team, you’ll be part of shaping the technical strategy, owning core areas of the system architecture, and influencing the user experience across Chewy’s retail media platform and advertiser portal. You will also help lead the team through ambiguous technical decisions and play a critical role in establishing front-end engineering processes.This position presents a chance to drive a new initiative at Chewy ads platform, growing business value in a rapidly expanding sector of the company.### What You'll Do* You will participate in working with all of the top engineers at Chewy and other partner technology teams to evolve architecture direction of all development at Chewy.* You will have responsibility over major components of Chewy’s architecture – both development and operational needs. You will be the go-to engineer for your part of the platform* You will be responsible for ensuring your systems are fully CICD and have responsibility of a plan to get to CICD if not there yet* Limiting technical debt will be your key objective* Hiring, training, mentoring and growing new talent will be a major part of your job as Chewy is growing all teams at a record pace* Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.* Conduct design and code reviews and improve on engineering rigor and standard* Debug production issues across services and tech stack* Continuously measure and optimize the performance, effectiveness, and uptime of backend services* You will participate in setting guidelines for evolving development practices, as well as mentoring junior engineersWhat You'll Need:* Bachelor’s Degree (MIS or CS preferred) or equivalent work experience* 10+ years of experience in an object-oriented language such as Java and relevant Java ecosystem like Spring Boot based applications* Prior experience in Display ads engineering systems will be a huge plus.* Be a Hands-on Staff technical engineering lead who can work with technical stakeholders, product managers, data scientists and help evolve the technical roadmap of this new display ads-initiatives.* Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development process including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations* Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals – object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design, problem solving, and complexity analysis* Experience with designing, building and deploying scalable, highly available systems* Experience with cloud & orchestration technologies (AWS Services, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)* Have or (more importantly) be willing to learn deep domain knowledge in the area of retail e-commerce* Position may require travel### Bonus* Experience in e-commerce, display ads engineering systems.* Experience with Scrum, XP or other agile methodologies a plus* Good communication skills with both technical and business audiences* Experience with data analysis/mining in large scale database environments a plusIf you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, or you require a religious accommodation, and you wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment at our company, please contact View email address on click.appcast.io access Chewy’s Privacy Policy, which contains information regarding information collected from job applicants and how we use it, please click here: Chewy Privacy Policy ( base salary range for this role is $166,000 - $265,000.00.* 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 access Chewy's California CPRA Job Applicant Privacy Policy, please click here. #J-18808-Ljbffr