Software Engineer II – Java and AWS

re-zoo-me; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k

Equity grant

Parental leave

Job summary

Chewy, based in Boston, MA, seeks a Software Engineer II on the Cloud Engineering team. You will build customer-facing features, automate systems, and improve observability for the e-commerce platform.

Collaborate across engineering to deliver self-service solutions and advance Chewy's enterprise platforms. You will mentor junior engineers, participate in scrum ceremonies, and help evolve development practices while thriving in a hybrid work model in Boston.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/IS, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of Java programming experience.
• 3+ years of AWS cloud experience.
• 3+ years of frontend technologies (React, TypeScript, NodeJS).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) and IaC (Terraform).
• Experience designing scalable, highly available systems.
• Ability to break down requirements and collaborate with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Apply algorithms, data structures, and design patterns to build scalable and performant code.
• Architect a resilient system for a customer-facing web application from scratch.
• Partner with stakeholders and technology teams to implement features.
• Drive rapid prototyping and iterative development.
• Collaborate to drive automated solutions and reusable tooling.
• Contribute to logging, testing, instrumentation, metrics, and monitoring practices.
• Conduct design and code reviews and raise engineering rigor.
• Mentor junior engineers and set development guidelines.
• Participate in scrum ceremonies and on-call rotations.

Skills

Java

AWS

React

TypeScript

NodeJS

CI/CD

Terraform

Design patterns

Observability

On-call

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/IS or related

Tools

Jenkins

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Job Description

Location:

Boston, MA

Hybrid:

3 days/week in office

Our Opportunity

We are hiring a Software Engineer II to join the Cloud Engineering team in Boston, MA. At Chewy, it is our mission to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents (and partners) everywhere. The Infrastructure Engineering organization develops services and tools to enable, support, and optimize software development processes and practices for Chewy engineers. In this role, you will develop new customer-facing features, enhance existing systems with automation, and improve observability of business applications that power the e-commerce platform and beyond. Further, you will have the opportunity to collaborate across the engineering organization to deliver self-service solutions which empower internal customers to move rapidly while building on Chewy's enterprise platforms.

What You'll Do

• Apply algorithms, data structures, and design patterns to build scalable and performant code
• Architect a resilient system for a customer-facing web application from scratch
• Partner with stakeholders and technology teams on how to best implement desired customer features and enhancements
• Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development
• Collaborate with Team Members to drive automated solutions to standardize methodologies, workflows, reusable modules, and tooling
• Contribute to team’s standard processes for logging, testing, instrumentation, metrics, monitors, alerts, practices, and processes
• Conduct design and code reviews and raise the bar on engineering rigor and standard
• You will participate in setting guidelines for evolving development practices, as well as mentoring junior engineers
• Actively participate in scrum ceremonies such as grooming, planning, demos and retrospective
• Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshooting production issues and improving operational excellence

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or similar; or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of Java programming experience
• 3+ years of experience with AWS cloud platforms
• 3+ years of programming experience with frontend technologies like React, Typescript, NodeJS
• Ability to think independently and break down product requirements into well-defined tasks
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to ensure development efforts align with stakeholder needs
• Experience in monitoring production environment, troubleshooting, triaging and addressing production issues
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or similar tool
• Experience with IaC, Terraform or similar
• Experience with designing, building and deploying scalable, highly available systems

Bonus

• Experience in e-commerce
• Experience in Python
• Experience with modern tools and environments (e.g. version control systems, bug/issue tracking tools)
• 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 [email removed].

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