Software Engineer II
Our Team:
Chewy’s Pet Health team is on a mission to build innovative solutions for our customers and our partner vets, such as our recent launch of Chewy’s first Telehealth service and Insurance. Engineering plays a meaningful role in defining and driving our platform roadmap. We take time to understand the “why” before we start crafting up the “how.” We celebrate engineering successes and promote a blameless and continuous learning and improvement engineering culture. We set the bar high for delivering production-ready code by adopting CI/CD (continuous integration continuous deployment) and DevOps engineering standard methodologies. Our engineers are encouraged to contribute ideas and code to our own platform and to other partner teams.
Your Role:
Chewy is hiring a Software Engineer II for our Boston, MA office as part of our Practice Hub team. You will help design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems and collaborate with product managers and front-end engineers to help Vet Clinics purchasing from the B2B Platform and enable them be in-stock for their customer’s needs. If you’re excited to work on impactful projects, develop cutting-edge backend systems, and share our passion for pets, we’d love to hear from you!
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Responsibilities:
- Apply algorithms, data structures, and design patterns to produce efficient and performant code
- Develop, extend, and debug code within the scope of their team’s existing tools and services
- Complete simple design and debug tasks
- Troubleshoot root causes of and solutions for bugs and production issues
- Will contribute to team’s standard processes for logging, testing, instrumentation, metrics, monitors, alerts, practices, and processes
- Make meaningful contributions to the team's existing service architecture, data architecture, dev-ops, and infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and public cloud services as part of a software development team
- Participate in on-call rotations and operational perfection
Minimum Qualifications:
- Serve as a senior technical contributor on the Practice Hub engineering team, focused on tech development and implementation.
- Experience in current web application core technologies: Java, Python, Spring, Spring Boot, Junit
- Experience in object oriented design
- Experience designing and integrating with RESTful APIs
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, architect, and develop usable components and features across distributed services
- Experience improving the performance of microservices
- Experience with load balancing
- Experience debugging and troubleshooting applications using tools like cloudsearch, opensearch, Kibana, Grafana or AWS Cloudwatch
- Bachelor's degree (Computer Science or similar technical field of study preferred), or equivalent work experience
- Mentor and guide junior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and pair programming sessions.
- Participate in sprint planning, technical design sessions, and retrospectives to improve development processes and team velocity.
- Contribute to team culture by fostering collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
Preferred:
- Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms
- Experience providing production support as part of an on-call rotation
- With knowledge of ReactJS and Typescript
- Experience developing CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or similar tool
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 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 CAAR@chewy.com.
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Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- FSA
- HSA
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- Mental Health Benefits
Parental Benefits
- Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
- Adoption Assistance Program
Work Flexibility
- Remote Work Opportunities
- Flexible Work Hours
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Company Outings
- Commuter Benefits Program
- Pet-friendly Office
- Happy Hours
- Snacks
- Some Meals Provided
- Casual Dress
- On-Site Cafeteria
- Holiday Events
Vacation and Time Off
- Personal/Sick Days
- Paid Holidays
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Leave of Absence
- Summer Fridays
Financial and Retirement
- Performance Bonus
- 401(K) With Company Matching
- 401(K)
- Company Equity
- Relocation Assistance
- Financial Counseling
- Stock Purchase Program
Professional Development
- Promote From Within
- Mentor Program
- Lunch and Learns
- Internship Program
- Leadership Training Program
- Shadowing Opportunities
- Access to Online Courses
- Professional Coaching
Diversity and Inclusion
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
- Unconscious Bias Training