Job Description:
Our Team:
Chewy Plus Team is building innovative and exciting solutions towards chewy's mission to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners everywhere. We take time to understand the "why" before we start shaping up the "how." We celebrate engineering successes and promote a continuous learning and improvement engineering culture. We set the bar high for delivering production-ready code by adopting CI/CD (continuous integration & continuous deployment) and DevOps engineering best practices. We encourage our engineers to contribute ideas and solutions in tech stacks across the company.
Your Role:
As a Software Engineer II - Backend, you will have the ability to craft, enhance, or create new functionalities for pet parents. As a full stack developer, you will have the ability to experience working with microservice based backend, batch jobs and UI for solving challenging customer and business problems. Your work will directly impact millions of customers who care for their furry family members every day. You will be a part of an amazing team and contributing to a growth initiative.
What You'll Do:
• Design, develop and implement solutions using varied technologies focusing on scalability, latency, and resiliency.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate product requirements into well-defined technical solutions and deliver high-quality features.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code, develop clear technical designs, and participate in code and design reviews to ensure adherence to engineering standards and best practices.
• Contribute to the evolution of service architecture, data architecture, DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and public cloud services as part of a collaborative software development team.
• Communicate development progress, risks, and technical trade-offs to stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers while leading by example through strong engineering practices.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives.
• Participate in on-call rotations to monitor production systems and investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve production incidents to maintain system reliability.
• Position may require travel.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science (or a related field) or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years of experience with Java and with related frameworks - Spring Webflux and/or Spring Boot.
• 4+ years of experience building, deploying, testing APIs and micro services in a distributed systems environment.
• 2+ years of experience developing features using PostgreSQL or other SQL-based databases.
• 2+ years of experience in system design.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar tool.
• Experience with Playwright or similar automation testing tools.
• Experience with AWS cloud and terraform.
• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with high-performing and scalable systems.
• Ability to think independently and break down product requirements into well-defined tasks.
• Experience in monitoring the production environment, troubleshooting, triaging, and addressing production issues.
Preferred:
• Hands-on experience developing user interfaces using React.js, including component design, state management, TypeScript and integration with RESTful APIs.
• Experience in e-commerce.
The base salary range for this role is $120,000 - $190,000.00.
Amazon changed how we shop for books. Netflix transformed the way we consume movies. At online pet specialty retailer Chewy, we’re disrupting the pet products industry by offering our customers the easiest way to get the premium products they want, backed by unparalleled service. We strive to win at everything we do, whether that means bending over backwards to gain our customers’ trust and loyalty or creating a creative and stimulating work environment for our employees. We aim to wow our customers—and our employees. Trust us. You’ll notice the difference from the moment you become a candidate with us. At Chewy, we believe in ownership and accountability and value creativity. We are makers and doers who thrive on the desire to drive results. We approach our mission to provide the best service and pet products anywhere with a dogged determination and a disposition that’s as sunny as the South Florida oceanfront we call home. Sure, we work hard, but we have fun, too. Of course, that’s not hard to do when you get to bring your favorite four-legged friend to the office.