Software Engineer II

Job Description:
At Chewy, it is our mission to become the most trusted and convenient online destination for pet parents and our partners vets and service providers alike. Our success is measured by the happiness of the people and pets we serve, not simply by the amount of pet supplies we deliver. That's why we continue to think of outside-the-Chewy-box ways to delight, surprise, and thank pet lovers who are dedicated to us!
Our Opportunity:
Chewy is looking for a Software Engineer to join the Outbound Science and Technology organization in Boston, MA. This engineer will help develop and execute the services and functions for their team, and thereby help Chewy to accelerate technological growth and reach new customers. This is a high visibility and high impact role with influence that cuts across all of Chewy's technology organization, and contributes to the strategic design and planning for their team. The organization develops micro-services and tools that enable, support, and optimize processes and practices for order fulfillment. This role includes software development for new systems, and developing new features for existing systems. Further, this engineer will collaborate across the engineering organization to create best practices help to map the overall ecosystem for Chewy's service architecture.
Does this sound like you? If so, we would love to hear from you! Come run with the Pack!
What you'll do:

• Contribute to the build and development of cloud-based services that support the roadmap of the Outbound Science & Technology Organization
• Help your team to build code that is logical, maintainable, scalable, modular, monitorable, highly available, secure, and performant
• Help your team to meet service-level SLAs and important metrics by building
• Be a full stake owner of service quality and operational excellence
• Help team to establish API contracts that are maintainable and meet customer use cases
• Establish and champion architectural standards best practices that enable automated test and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).
• Translate organizational level business requirements and use cases into infrastructure capabilities verified to meet the requirements.
• Collaborate with other team members and partners to implement org-wide guidelines, data flows, reusable modules, and tooling.

What you'll need:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering related field or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 5 years of software development in Java25 or similar
• Integration of cloud services with on-premises technologies
• Experience coding in higher level programming languages and related tools, Python, Javascript, JSON, etc.
• Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative and agile/scrum methodologies required
• Experience designing RESTful services and APIs
• Experience with scaling backend services
• Innovative and ability to think outside the box for creative problem solving
• Comfortable working in cross functional and multidisciplinary teams
• Excellent written and spoken communication

Bonus:

• Experience building and deploying applications to the cloud and exposure to administering & consuming AWS services
• Experience with OpenAPI, Swagger, or stoplight.io
• Experience migrating monolithic software applications to cloud-based services
• Experience with configuration and deployment management via Terraform or Ansible
• Design backend messaging, infrastructure using frameworks like Kafka.
• Virtualization, Network knowledge is a plus
• Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, gradle)
• Experience in ecommerce, supply chain, fulfillment, transportation or logistics.
• Experience mentoring and coaching colleagues
• Machine Learning algorithm and model development

• 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 protected].
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