Software Engineer III

Chewy•Plantation, FL

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a Software Engineer III to join our team in Plantation, FL. This full-time role involves the design, development, testing, and support of software systems and related integrations. You will design and build high complexity components and/or platforms, partnering with technical and business teams on multiple initiatives. This role requires providing guidance and mentorship to the existing team and collaborating to deliver new features and enhancements. You will actively guide team members and participate in the definition, design, development, testing, and implementation of software functionality using an agile methodology. The position involves creating or modifying complex scalable distributed software systems, contributing to code quality requirements, providing feedback, and promoting collaborative solutions during code review. You will guide team members and advise stakeholders on improvements and optimizations to features, practices, processes, and operations, and work with and advise stakeholders and technology teams on how best to implement desired features and enhancements. Communication of project status, risks, and solutions to the team and stakeholders is essential, acting as a technical point of contact to influence stakeholders regarding trade-offs. Ensuring that technical solutions follow best practices, are reliable, easily maintainable, and scalable under sustained load is a key responsibility. You will collaborate to identify, isolate, and resolve malfunctions related to software. This role involves leading team members by example, advocating for best practices, and influencing software engineering team hiring practices as the team grows. You will lead technical teams in the development and delivery of projects and participate in on-call rotations and contribute to operational excellence.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related field of study and 7 years of experience as a software developer or a related position/occupation.
Master’s degree Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related field of study and 5 years of experience as a software developer or a related position/occupation.
3 years with: Software engineering; Developing software components and/or services using Java 8, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JQuery, JSON, AngularJS, Tomcat, HTML5, CSS3, Spring MVC; Working with web services (SOAP/HTTP, REST); and SQL and developing modules with relational databases.
Server technologies
Designing software services and/or components and architecture acting in technical lead capacity
Quality assurance methodologies and automated testing using tools such as Selenium/Jmeter
e-commerce

Nice To Haves

Experience with any of the following: AWS, Terraform, Agile/Scrum, open-source technologies, responsive module design, continuous integration using Jenkins; Service-Oriented Architecture.

Responsibilities

Design, development, testing, and support of software systems and related integrations.
Design and build high complexity components and/or platforms.
Partner with technical and business teams on multiple initiatives.
Provide guidance and mentorship to the existing team.
Collaborate to deliver new features and enhancements.
Actively guide team members and participate in the definition, design, development, testing and implementation of software functionality using an agile methodology.
Create or modify complex scalable distributed software systems.
Contribute to code quality requirements, provide feedback, and promote collaborative solutions for the team during code review.
Guide team members and advise stakeholders on improvements and optimizations to features, practices, processes, and operations.
Work with and advise stakeholders and technology teams on how best to implement desired features and enhancements.
Communicate project status, risks, and solutions to team and stakeholders, and act as technical point of contact to influence stakeholders regarding trade-offs.
Ensure that technical solutions follow best practices, are reliable, are easily maintainable, and are scalable under sustained load.
Collaborate to identify, isolate, and resolve malfunctions related to software.
Lead team members by example, advocating for best practices and influencing software engineering team hiring practices as the team continues to grow.
Lead technical teams in the development and delivery of projects.
Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to operational excellence.

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
10% off pet insurance
20% off at Chewy.com
unlimited PTO (subject to manager approval)
six paid holidays
paid sick and family leave (in compliance with applicable state and local regulations)