Software Engineer II – Java and AWS

Chewy•Boston, MA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are hiring a Software Engineer II to join the Cloud Engineering team in Boston, MA. At Chewy, it is our mission to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents (and partners) everywhere. The Infrastructure Engineering organization develops services and tools to enable, support, and optimize software development processes and practices for Chewy engineers. In this role, you will develop new customer-facing features, enhance existing systems with automation, and improve observability of business applications that power the e-commerce platform and beyond. Further, you will have the opportunity to collaborate across the engineering organization to deliver self-service solutions which empower internal customers to move rapidly while building on Chewy’s enterprise platforms.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or similar; or equivalent experience
3+ years of Java programming experience
3+ years of experience with AWS cloud platforms
3+ years of programming experience with frontend technologies like React, Typescript, NodeJS
Ability to think independently and break down product requirements into well-defined tasks
Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to ensure development efforts align with stakeholder needs
Experience in monitoring production environment, troubleshooting, triaging and addressing production issues
Experience with CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or similar tool
Experience with IaC, Terraform or similar
Experience with designing, building and deploying scalable, highly available systems

Nice To Haves

Experience in e-commerce
Experience in Python
Experience with modern tools and environments (e.g. version control systems, bug/issue tracking tools)

Responsibilities

Apply algorithms, data structures, and design patterns to build scalable and performant code
Architect a resilient system for a customer-facing web application from scratch
Partner with stakeholders and technology teams on how to best implement desired customer features and enhancements
Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development
Collaborate with Team Members to drive automated solutions to standardize methodologies, workflows, reusable modules, and tooling
Contribute to team’s standard processes for logging, testing, instrumentation, metrics, monitors, alerts, practices, and processes
Conduct design and code reviews and raise the bar on engineering rigor and standard
Participate in setting guidelines for evolving development practices, as well as mentoring junior engineers
Actively participate in scrum ceremonies such as grooming, planning, demos and retrospective
Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshooting production issues and improving operational excellence

Benefits

401k
new hire and annual equity grant
annual bonus (for C08+ positions)
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
employee discounts (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)