Our Opportunity:

Chewy is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for our team in Bellevue, WA. The idea candidate would have experience building in a cloud environment(AWS preferred), scalable systems that will solve for sophisticated challenges in Chewy’s supply chain, to answer the customer question of “When will I get my item?” by understanding, mapping, and navigating the extensive fulfillment and transportation network of Chewy. Experience with web applications (involving modern JavaScript frameworks like React or Angular), data science infrastructure, as well as proven experience of supply chain & logistics, will be advantageous. The engineer will be the tech leader for a newly incubated team and will work with technical, data science, and business teams across Chewy to establish and implement a multi-year vision and roadmap.

What You'll Do:

• We Build and consume RESTful endpoints that will meet exacting latency and scale requirements.
• We Operationalize science models in the supply chain space and build continuous feedback mechanisms. Evaluate and drive the corresponding technology choices.
• We Integrate endpoints with various customer flows on the website and mobile app, cutting across multiple technical and product areas/teams.
• We Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
• Partner with engineers across the organization evolve the architecture direction and philosophy, and be the go-to engineer for your part of the platform.
• Ensure your systems are fully CICD (or build a roadmap to it, if not there yet). Limit technical debt.
• Hire, train, mentor and strengthen team members to support Chewy’s rapid growth in engineering teams.
• Conduct design and code reviews and improve on engineering difficulty 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.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, Physics or Electrical Engineering.
• 10+ years of experience building cloud-native high performant systems.
• 5+ years of software development with web services (SOAP/HTTP, REST).
• 3+ years of cloud & software architecture experience.
• Experience working with Node JS and the node ecosystem for web application development.
• Hands-on Engineer spending significant percentage of their time writing code or debugging tricky issues.
• Hands-on experience leading the design (OOP, data structures, design patterns), development and deployment of business software at scale.
• 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.
• Experience mentoring and training the engineering community on sophisticated technical issues.
• Experience with cloud & orchestration technologies (AWS Services, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
• Be open to some travel to develop knowledge of Chewy as an organization.

Bonus:

• Experience in e-commerce and supply chain.
• Experience with building, testing, operationalizing ML / Data Science models.
• Experience with data analysis/mining in large scale database environments a plus.
• Experience with Scrum, XP or other agile methodologies.
• Good interpersonal skills with both technical and business audiences.
• Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, PowerShell).
• Familiarity with Test driven development, Jest and Cypress

Compensation & Benefits:

The salary range for this position is $124,500-$255,000. 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.

We offer different types of insurance, 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.

Non-exempt hourly team members accrue paid time off (PTO) while salaried-exempt team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Non-exempt hourly team members in Fulfillment Centers and Customer Service are also eligible for additional unplanned unpaid time off (UTO). 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.