Our Opportunity:

The Pet Portal Engineering team at Chewy is seeking a dedicated and motivated Software Engineer III in Boston, MA. By joining our organization, you'll have the chance to work alongside talented engineering teams, mentor fellow engineers, and contribute across various key business functions. We have evolved into an innovative Fortune 500 industry leader. The ideal candidate will have an interest in building data pipelines as well as APIs. Additionally, the candidate will have a strong customer first attitude, embody a curious and think big approach to their work to help foster a culture of innovation within the team, and be an engaged and respectful team member. We continue to grow and always Think Big about new innovative ideas, while consistently exploring opportunities to differentiate ourselves in the industry.

Your Role:

As a Software Engineer within our Pet Portal development team, your time will be spent be architecting and building scalable user experiences with a hard-working group of front-end and back-end engineers, product managers, and business leaders. You will own building new features that will directly impact millions of customers and their furry family members every day within a fully Agile environment. Software Engineers within our Pet Portal organization play a hands-on role in driving innovation, scalability and maintainability, as well as in resolving critical development issues. Most importantly, you will serve as a leader and mentor, earning the trust and respect of those around you, from fellow engineers to technology leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Apply algorithms, data structures, and design patterns to produce efficient and performant code

• Build Rest / GraphQL APIs and Kafka event streams to provide access to aggregated person level data and insights

• Mentor junior Team Members to level up their skills in accordance with industry and Chewy standard methodologies

• Make meaningful contributions to the team's existing service architecture, data architecture, dev-ops, and infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and public cloud services as part of a software development team

• Develop, extend, and debug code within the scope of their team's existing tools and services

• Solve root causes of and solutions for bugs and production issues

• Will contribute to team's standard methodologies for logging, testing, instrumentation, metrics, monitors, alerts, practices, and processes

• Participate in on-call rotations and operational excellence

• Participate in discovery and design exercises collaborating with technical and business partners

• Participate in the team's Agile practice attending and contributing to related ceremonies

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or similar; or equivalent experience

• 7+ years of professional experience as Software Engineer

• Strong Java development skills and in-depth knowledge of a least one Java framework such as Spring Boot or Micronaut

• Experience working with event driven architectures and sound understanding of at least one event streaming solution (Kafka, SNS, etc.)

• Hands-on experience in designing, building, and deploying scalable, highly available systems

• Experience authoring, deploying, and supporting APIs at production scale

• Experience with Big Data Technologies

• Experience with SQL and NO SQL

• Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals - object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design, problem solving, and complexity analysis

• Exceptional communication and leadership skills

• The position may require travel

Preferred:

• Experience in e-commerce or healthcare

• Experience with configuration and deployment management and be hands on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience

• Experience with data analysis/mining in large scale database environments a plus

• Experience managing infrastructure as code with tools like Terraform

• Experience working with at least 1 cloud computing platform, preferably AWS

Chewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members. 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 CAAR@chewy.com .

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