Software Engineer I

Chewy•Boston, MA

About The Position

Chewy is growing and we are looking to expand our autoship systems and services team with talented software engineers in multiple locations. If you are a Software Engineer and interested in building applications to solve real world operational problems that will be highly impactful and visible to leadership at Chewy, please apply! In this role, the ideal candidate will engage in iterative development, testing, and make contributions to the growth and development of one of Chewy’s fastest growing revenue streams. Our Autoship team is scaling the platform to have loosely coupled components, a real-time event system and self-corrective processes for real-time customer experience, a federated GraphQL API to seamlessly access data, and an aggregated data pipeline to ingest data from predictive ML models and recommendation engines. You will use Java, Javascript, NodeJS, GraphQL, DynamoDB, SNS/SQS, AWS ECS/Fragate, Kubernetes, Kafka, and AWS Lambda to build out the platform. In this is role you will support the creation & deployment of new concept prototypes applications, system & services supporting standardization, optimization, automation, and process infrastructure of the Autoship business & operations.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
2+ years of professional experience as Software Engineer.
2+ years of experience building modern JavaScript applications and frameworks (React, Vue, Angular)
Minimum 2+ years of software development with scalable distributed microservice application (Java/Javascript/SpringBoot).
Hands-on experience in designing, building, and deploying scalable, highly available systems
Be a hands-on engineer spending significant percentage of their time writing code or debugging tricky issues
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle 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

Nice To Haves

Experience in e-commerce
Experience with Scrum, XP or other agile methodologies a plus
Experience with configuration and deployment management via Terraform or Ansible 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 with Typescript and GraphQL
Familiarity with Test driven development, Jest and Cypress
Familiarity with AWS

Responsibilities

Design, develop and implement solutions using varied technologies focusing on scalability, latency, and resiliency.
Review code, implementation and provide meaningful feedback that helps other prototype engineers to build better prototypes.
Experience in using DevOps principles and techniques to delivery high quality software prototypes with the least technical debt possible.
Establish strong working relationships at all organizational levels and across functional teams
You will have responsibility over major components of autoship platform – both development and operational needs.

Benefits

401k
new hire and annual equity grant
annual bonus
medical/Rx insurance
vision insurance
dental insurance
life insurance
disability insurance
hospital indemnity insurance
critical illness insurance
accident insurance
parental leave
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, subject to manager approval
six paid holidays per year
paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations