Software Engineer II

Chewy•Boston, MA

13d•$120,000 - $190,000•Onsite

About The Position

At Chewy, it is our mission to become the most trusted and convenient online destination for pet parents and our partners vets and service providers alike. Our success is measured by the happiness of the people and pets we serve, not simply by the amount of pet supplies we deliver. That’s why we continue to think of outside-the-Chewy-box ways to delight, surprise, and thank pet lovers who are dedicated to us! Chewy is looking for a Software Engineer to join the Outbound Science and Technology organization in Boston, MA. This engineer will help develop and execute the services and functions for their team, and thereby help Chewy to accelerate technological growth and reach new customers. This is a high visibility and high impact role with influence that cuts across all of Chewy’s technology organization, and contributes to the strategic design and planning for their team. The organization develops micro-services and tools that enable, support, and optimize processes and practices for order fulfillment. This role includes software development for new systems, and developing new features for existing systems. Further, this engineer will collaborate across the engineering organization to create best practices help to map the overall ecosystem for Chewy's service architecture.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering related field or equivalent work experience
Minimum 5 years of software development in Java25 or similar
Integration of cloud services with on-premises technologies
Experience coding in higher level programming languages and related tools, Python, Javascript, JSON, etc.
Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative and agile/scrum methodologies required
Experience designing RESTful services and APIs
Experience with scaling backend services
Innovative and ability to think outside the box for creative problem solving
Comfortable working in cross functional and multidisciplinary teams
Excellent written and spoken communication

Nice To Haves

Experience building and deploying applications to the cloud and exposure to administering & consuming AWS services
Experience with OpenAPI, Swagger, or stoplight.io
Experience migrating monolithic software applications to cloud-based services
Experience with configuration and deployment management via Terraform or Ansible
Design backend messaging, infrastructure using frameworks like Kafka.
Virtualization, Network knowledge is a plus
Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, gradle)
Experience in ecommerce, supply chain, fulfillment, transportation or logistics.
Experience mentoring and coaching colleagues
Machine Learning algorithm and model development

Responsibilities

Contribute to the build and development of cloud-based services that support the roadmap of the Outbound Science & Technology Organization
Help your team to build code that is logical, maintainable, scalable, modular, monitorable, highly available, secure, and performant
Help your team to meet service-level SLAs and important metrics by building
Be a full stake owner of service quality and operational excellence
Help team to establish API contracts that are maintainable and meet customer use cases
Establish and champion architectural standards best practices that enable automated test and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).
Translate organizational level business requirements and use cases into infrastructure capabilities verified to meet the requirements.
Collaborate with other team members and partners to implement org-wide guidelines, data flows, reusable modules, and tooling.

Benefits

401k
new hire and a new hire and annual equity grant
annual bonus
medical/Rx
vision
dental
life
disability
hospital indemnity
critical illness
accident
parental leave
family services benefits
backup dependent care
flexible spending accounts
telemedicine
pet adoption reimbursement
employee assistance program
10% off pet insurance
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