Software Engineer I

Chewy; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 98,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental & vision

Parental leave

Pet adoption reimbursement

Employee discounts

Job summary

Chewy is expanding its autoship systems and services team with software engineers to build applications solving real-world operational problems. You will contribute to a fast-growing revenue stream and work on a platform with real-time events, a federated GraphQL API, and data pipelines incorporating ML models and recommendations.

The role involves designing, developing and deploying scalable, highly available systems using Java, JavaScript and modern JS frameworks, with a focus on both frontend

Qualifications

• BS in CS or related degree/experience.
• 2+ years of software engineer experience.
• 2+ years building modern JavaScript applications (React, Vue, Angular).
• Minimum 2+ years of software development with scalable distributed microservice applications (Java/Javascript/SpringBoot).
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying scalable, highly available systems.
• Hands-on engineer spending significant time writing code or debugging issues.
• Knowledge of full SDLC and code reviews, source control, testing and operations.
• Strong CS fundamentals: OOD, data structures, algorithms and complexity.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and implement scalable solutions focusing on scalability, latency and resiliency.
• Review code and provide feedback to prototype engineers.
• Apply DevOps principles to deliver high-quality prototypes with minimal debt.
• Establish strong relationships across teams and at all levels.
• Own major components of autoship platform development and operations.

Skills

Frontend development

Backend development

Java

JavaScript

NodeJS

GraphQL

DynamoDB

SNS/SQS

AWS ECS/Fargate

Kubernetes

Kafka

AWS Lambda

React

Vue

Angular

SpringBoot

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Java

JavaScript

NodeJS

GraphQL

DynamoDB

SNS/SQS

AWS ECS/Fargate

Kubernetes

Kafka

AWS Lambda

React

Vue

Angular

SpringBoot

Job description

Job Description

Chewy is growing and we are looking to expand our autoship systems and services team with talented software engineers in multiple locations. If you are a Software Engineer and interested in building applications to solve real world operational problems that will be highly impactful and visible to leadership at Chewy. In this role, the ideal candidate will engage in iterative development, testing, and make contributions to the growth and development of one of Chewy’s fastest growing revenue streams.

About You

You will be a software engineer with a BS in CS, or related degree/experience, focused on mainly on frontend and backend development. Our Autoship team is scaling the platform to have loosely coupled components, a real-time event system and self-corrective processes for real-time customer experience, a federated GraphQL API to seamlessly access data, and an aggregated data pipeline to ingest data from predictive ML models and recommendation engines. You will use Java, Javascript, NodeJS, GraphQL, DynamoDB, SNS/SQS, AWS ECS/Fragate, Kubernetes, Kafka, and AWS Lambda to build out the platform. In this is role you will support the creation & deployment of new concept prototypes applications, system & services supporting standardization, optimization, automation, and process infrastructure of the Autoship business & operations.

About This Team

Autoship is a service that Chewy offers to customers so that they can receive items that they purchase often, on an automatic shipment schedule. Our team’s mission is to make Autoship the most loved pet care subscription program. As the most convenient and simple-to-use subscription offering, Autoship helps pet parents easily address their pets’ needs so they can spend more time enjoying their relationships with their pets. Furthermore, Autoship customers are Chewy’s most developed and loyal customers, and the trust they place in Autoship to meet their needs drives long-term customer engagement with Chewy.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop and implement solutions using varied technologies focusing on scalability, latency, and resiliency.
• Review code, implementation and provide meaningful feedback that helps other prototype engineers to build better prototypes.
• Experience in using DevOps principles and techniques to delivery high quality software prototypes with the least technical debt possible.
• Establish strong working relationships at all organizational levels and across functional teams
• You will have responsibility over major components of autoship platform – both development and operational needs.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of professional experience as Software Engineer.
• 2+ years of experience building modern JavaScript applications and frameworks (React, Vue, Angular)
• Minimum 2+ years of software development with scalable distributed microservice application (Java/Javascript/SpringBoot).
• Hands-on experience in designing, building, and deploying scalable, highly available systems
• Be a hands-on engineer spending significant percentage of their time writing code or debugging tricky issues
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle 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

Bonus

• Experience in e-commerce
• Experience with Scrum, XP or other agile methodologies a plus
• Experience with configuration and deployment management via Terraform or Ansible and be hands on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience
• Experience with data analysis/mining in large scale database environments a plus.
• Experience with Typescript and GraphQL
• Familiarity with Test driven development, Jest and Cypress
• Familiarity with AWS

The base salary range for this role is $97,500 - $160,000.00.

• The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant. C08+ positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.

We offer different types of insurance and benefits, such as medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident. We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com.

Exempt salary team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.

Chewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact [e-mail].

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