Software Engineer I
About The Position
Chewy is seeking a Software Engineer I to join an established technology team in Boston, Massachusetts. The role involves enhancing or creating functionality as part of a high-performing engineering team working with cloud-based services, databases, security, serverless technologies, and related areas. The engineer will design and build software components for services or platforms, and contribute through development and testing to the growth of a rapidly growing area of the business. The position focuses on writing and debugging software, designing and troubleshooting services, and contributing to the team’s service and data architecture, DevOps, infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and public cloud services. The engineer will also participate in on-call rotations and operational excellence efforts.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or a similar field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 1 year of professional experience as a Software Engineer.
- Hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying scalable, highly available systems.
- Willingness to spend a significant percentage of time writing code or debugging difficult issues.
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices across the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Proficiency in computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
- Knowledge of cloud technologies, databases, and operating systems.
- Ability to identify root causes of bugs and production issues and their solutions.
- Proficiency in popular coding languages including Python, Java, and C++, and frameworks or systems such as Git.
Nice To Haves
- Exposure to e-commerce.
- Experience with Scrum, XP, or other agile methodologies.
- Experience with configuration and deployment management and hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization.
- Experience with data analysis or mining in large-scale database environments.
- Experience with AWS.
Responsibilities
- Use algorithms, data structures, and design patterns to produce efficient, performant code.
- Develop, extend, and debug code within the scope of the team's existing tools and services.
- Execute design and debugging tasks.
- Troubleshoot root causes of bugs and production issues and identify solutions.
- Contribute to team practices for logging, testing, instrumentation, metrics, monitors, alerts, and processes.
- Contribute to service architecture, data architecture, DevOps, infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and public cloud services.
- Participate in on-call rotations and operational excellence.
Benefits
- 401(k)
- New-hire and annual equity grants; C08+ positions may also be eligible for an annual bonus.
- Medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident insurance.
- Parental leave and family services benefits.
- Backup dependent care.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Telemedicine.
- Pet adoption reimbursement.
- Employee assistance program.
- Discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com.
- Unlimited PTO for exempt salary team members, subject to manager approval.
- Six paid holidays per year.
- Paid sick and family leave may be available in accordance with applicable state and local regulations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
