Software Engineer III

Chewy•Boston, MA

11d

About The Position

Chewy is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Level III, to join the team developing Chewy.com and core customer platforms that power Chewy.com and the Chewy app. The role focuses on building reliable, high-performance backend services and features that support customer experiences and personalization at enterprise scale. The engineer will work in an Agile environment with backend and frontend engineers, product managers, and business leaders, and will help deliver solutions that enable pet lovers to make informed purchasing decisions. The position calls for an engineer who can lead initiatives from ideation through release, design scalable event-driven and service-oriented architectures, and own operational excellence. The engineer will guide and mentor other engineers, contribute to technical decisions, and develop effective monitoring, anomaly detection, and self-healing capabilities. The position is located in Boston, Massachusetts, or Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience working primarily with server-side technologies such as Spring Boot, Java/Kotlin, Kafka, and GraphQL.
At least 5 years of hands-on experience designing and developing scalable, high-performing, fault-tolerant applications for large enterprises.
Strong knowledge and experience developing large-scale platforms using technologies including Java/Kotlin, Spring, RESTful web services, Kafka, Federated GraphQL, OpenSearch, graph databases, Datadog, Jenkins, and AWS.
Experience with event-driven and service-oriented architectures.
Experience architecting systems with multiple domain dependencies and cross-cutting concerns.
Expertise in measuring, evaluating, and tuning application performance.
Hands-on experience working in a public cloud environment.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing and developing tests within a test automation framework.
Experience with test-driven development.
AI-native or AI-first development experience and tooling that demonstrates accelerated delivery velocity.
Background in e-commerce.
Experience with Agentic Commerce engagement.

Responsibilities

Lead key initiatives end to end, from ideation through design, implementation, testing, and release.
Design and architect enterprise-scale platforms and develop features and capabilities for personalization on Chewy.com.
Implement scalable, performant, readable, and tested code.
Improve operational excellence metrics, including service-level agreements, latency, availability, and resiliency.
Design scalable, performant event-driven and service architectures.
Own implementation quality and delivery, including bug-free, highly scalable, and performant solutions.
Develop monitoring, anomaly detection, and self-healing platform capabilities.
Participate in technical decisions and collaborate with peers and cross-functional teams.
Review code and implementations and provide constructive feedback.
Document designs, architectures, and solutions.
Mentor and guide peers and junior engineers.
Build strong working relationships across organizational levels and functional teams.
Take ownership of project timelines and deliverables.

Benefits

401(k) eligibility.
New-hire and annual equity grants.
Annual bonus eligibility for C08+ positions.
Medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and 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 for exempt salary team members, subject to manager approval.
Six paid holidays per year.
Paid sick and family leave may be available in accordance with applicable state and local regulations.