Software Engineer II

Chewy•Boston, MA

About The Position

Our Team: Chewy’s Pet Health team is on a mission to build innovative solutions for our customers and our partner vets, such as our recent launch of Chewy’s first Telehealth service and Insurance. Engineering plays a meaningful role in defining and driving our platform roadmap. We take time to understand the "why" before we start crafting up the "how." We celebrate engineering successes and promote a blameless and 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 standard methodologies. Our engineers are encouraged to contribute ideas and code to our own platform and to other partner teams. Your Role: Chewy is hiring a Software Engineer II for our Boston, MA office as part of our Practice Hub team. You will help design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems and collaborate with product managers and front-end engineers to help Vet Clinics purchasing from the B2B Platform and enable them be in-stock for their customer’s needs. If you’re excited to work on impactful projects, develop cutting-edge backend systems, and share our passion for pets, we’d love to hear from you!

Requirements

Experience in current web application core technologies: Java, Python, Spring, Spring Boot, Junit
Experience in object oriented design
Experience designing and integrating with RESTful APIs
Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, architect, and develop usable components and features across distributed services
Experience improving the performance of microservices
Experience with load balancing
Experience debugging and troubleshooting applications using tools like cloudsearch, opensearch, Kibana, Grafana or AWS Cloudwatch
Bachelor's degree (Computer Science or similar technical field of study preferred), or equivalent work experience

Nice To Haves

Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms
Experience providing production support as part of an on-call rotation
With knowledge of ReactJS and Typescript
Experience developing CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or similar tool

Responsibilities

Apply algorithms, data structures, and design patterns to produce efficient and performant code
Develop, extend, and debug code within the scope of their team’s existing tools and services
Complete simple design and debug tasks
Troubleshoot root causes of and solutions for bugs and production issues
Will contribute to team’s standard processes for logging, testing, instrumentation, metrics, monitors, alerts, practices, and processes
Make meaningful contributions to the team's existing service architecture, data architecture, dev-ops, and infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and public cloud services as part of a software development team
Participate in on-call rotations and operational perfection
Serve as a senior technical contributor on the Practice Hub engineering team, focused on tech development and implementation.
Mentor and guide junior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and pair programming sessions.
Participate in sprint planning, technical design sessions, and retrospectives to improve development processes and team velocity.
Contribute to team culture by fostering collaboration, innovation, and accountability.