Staff Software Engineer

Chewy•Boston, MA

About The Position

Our Opportunity: Chewy is seeking a Staff Software Engineer our fast-paced, customer-first Sponsored Ads team. This role is instrumental in launching innovative, customer-facing products crafted to delight and engage Chewy’s advertising partners, while scaling our advertising technology and strengthening brand partnerships. As a senior member of the team, you’ll help craft, build, and deliver intuitive, performant, and scalable Display ads experiences that power ad creation, campaign management, creative tools, and performance reporting across Chewy’s digital ecosystem. Sponsored Ads at Chewy builds a state of art ads platform — offering pet parents relevant product options and deals while enabling brand partners to improve transparency and reach through targeted placements. Advertising is a fast-growing, strategically important component of Chewy’s e-commerce platform and a key driver of incremental revenue. In this role, you’ll demonstrate your deep expertise in Ads serving technologies, large scale engineering systerms to lead the development of engaging web experiences for both advertisers and pet-parents as Chewy shoppers. As an early member of the team, you’ll be part of shaping the technical strategy, owning core areas of the system architecture, and influencing the user experience across Chewy’s retail media platform and advertiser portal. You will also help lead the team through ambiguous technical decisions and play a critical role in establishing front-end engineering processes. This position presents a chance to drive a new initiative at Chewy ads platform, growing business value in a rapidly expanding sector of the company.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree (MIS or CS preferred) or equivalent work experience
10+ years of experience in an object-oriented language such as Java and relevant Java ecosystem like Spring Boot based applications
Prior experience in Display ads engineering systems will be a huge plus.
Be a Hands-on Staff technical engineering lead who can work with technical stakeholders, product managers, data scientists and help evolve the technical roadmap of this new display ads-initiatives.
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development process including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals – object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
Experience with designing, building and deploying scalable, highly available systems.
Experience with cloud & orchestration technologies (AWS Services, Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
Have or (more importantly) be willing to learn deep domain knowledge in the area of retail e-commerce.

Nice To Haves

Experience in e-commerce, display ads engineering systems.
Experience with Scrum, XP or other agile methodologies a plus.
Good communication skills with both technical and business audiences.
Experience with data analysis/mining in large scale database environments a plus.

Responsibilities

Participate in working with all of the top engineers at Chewy and other partner technology teams to evolve architecture direction of all development at Chewy.
Have responsibility over major components of Chewy’s architecture – both development and operational needs.
Be the go-to engineer for your part of the platform.
Be responsible for ensuring your systems are fully CICD and have responsibility of a plan to get to CICD if not there yet.
Limiting technical debt will be your key objective.
Hiring, training, mentoring and growing new talent will be a major part of your job as Chewy is growing all teams at a record pace.
Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
Conduct design and code reviews and improve on engineering rigor and standard.
Debug production issues across services and tech stack.
Continuously measure and optimize the performance, effectiveness, and uptime of backend services.
Participate in setting guidelines for evolving development practices, as well as mentoring junior engineers.

Benefits

401k
new hire and annual equity grant
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