Our Opportunity:

Chewy is growing! We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team developing Chewy.com. Chewy is THE go-to online shopping destination for all things pet and we are continuously seeking to delight pet parents with a seamless experience across our platforms.

• Are you a passionate and energetic Software Engineer?
• Are you excited about developing solutions focused on providing a delightful customer experience?
• Can you easily adapt to meet the needs of our continuous business growth?
• Are you a quality-focused engineer?

If your answer is yes, read on...

The storefront engineering team is seeking a dedicated and motivated Senior Software Engineer within our Discover and Engage division. Discover and Engage team is responsible for powering Chewy.com’s Home Page, Navigation, Product Details Page, & My Accounts. Delivering reliable and high-performance services and features at Chewy’s scale requires engineers with extraordinary expertise and boundless creativity. As an engineer in our team, you will work with a hardworking group of backend and frontend engineers, product managers, and business leaders in an Agile environment. As part of a dynamic team, this role offers a tremendous opportunity for professional growth in the leading online pet retailer in the United States. Our strong Storefront engineering team @Chewy is focused on building solutions that guide pet lovers in making their best, most informed decisions to purchase products that their pets love, every single day.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, build new features and capabilities on our customer-facing application across the Home, Nav, Product Display Pages of chewy.com
• Write scalable, performant, readable, and tested frontend code
• Participate in technical decisions and collaborate with talented peers
• Review code, and implementations and give substantial feedback that helps others build better solutions!
• Write documentation on design, architecture, and solutions.
• Provide mentorship and guidance for peers and more junior engineers
• Establish strong working relationships at all organizational levels and across functional teams
• Take responsibility and ownership of project timelines and work.

What You’ll Need:

• Strong knowledge and experience developing large-scale applications using tools including but not limited to Java/Kotlin, Spring, RESTful Webservices, Kafka, Splunk/Dynatrace, Datadog, Jenkins
• 7+ years of working primarily on server-side technologies (e.g. Spring Boot, Java/Kotlin).
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and developing scalable, high-performing, and fault-tolerant applications for large enterprises.
• Experience with micro-services, micro-front-end, and/or service-oriented architecture
• Experience architecting systems with multiple domain dependencies and cross-cutting concerns
• Expertise in measuring, evaluating, and tuning application performance
• Hands-on experience working in a public cloud environment.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
• Position may require travel

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working experience with Amazon Web Services
• Working experience in JavaScript, React/Angular/Vue, Node.js is a plus
• Experience designing and developing tests within a test automation framework
• Experience in Test Driven Development
• Agile experience is a plus
• Background in e-commerce