Staff software engineer

Our Opportunity

Chewy is seeking a Staff Software Engineer our fast-paced, customer-first Sponsored Ads team. This role is instrumental in launching innovative, customer-facing products crafted to delight and engage Chewy’s advertising partners, while scaling our advertising technology and strengthening brand partnerships. As a senior member of the team, you’ll help craft, build, and deliver intuitive, performant, and scalable front-end experiences that power ad creation, campaign management, creative tools, and performance reporting across Chewy’s digital ecosystem.

Sponsored Ads at Chewy builds a situation where everyone is happy ecosystem—offering pet parents relevant product options and deals while enabling brand partners to improve transparency and reach through targeted placements. Advertising is a fast-growing, strategically important component of Chewy’s e-commerce platform and a key driver of incremental revenue.

In this role, you’ll demonstrate your deep expertise in front-end engineering to lead the development of engaging web experiences for both advertisers and internal users. As an early member of the team, you’ll be part of shaping the technical strategy, owning core areas of the system architecture, and influencing the user experience across Chewy’s retail platform and advertiser portal. You will also help lead the team through ambiguous technical decisions and play a critical role in establishing front-end engineeristandard processesces.

This position presents a chance to drive a new project from the beginning, growing business value in a rapidly expanding sector of the company.

What You'll Do

• You will participate in working with all of the top engineers at Chewy and the CTO to evolve architecture direction of all development at Chewy.
• You will have responsibility over major components of Chewy’s architecture – both development and operational needs. You will be the go-to engineer for your part of the platform
• You will be responsible for ensuring your systems are fully CICD and have responsibility of a plan to get to CICD if not there yet
• Limiting technical debt will be your key objective
• Hiring, training, mentoring and growing new talent will be a major part of your job as Chewy is growing all teams at a record pace
• Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
• Conduct design and code reviews and improve on engineering rigor and standard
• Debug production issues across services and tech stack
• Continuously measure and optimize the performance, effectiveness, and uptime of backend services
• You will participate in setting guidelines for evolving development practices, as well as mentoring junior engineers
  
  

What You'll Need

• Bachelor’s Degree (MIS or CS preferred) or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of experience in an object-oriented language such as Java and relevant Java ecosystem like Spring Boot based applications
• Be a Hands-on Engineer who will spend significant percentage of their time writing code creating Framework structure for team or debugging tricky issues
• 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
• Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals – object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Experience mentoring and training the engineering community on complex technical issues
• Sharp analytical abilities and proven design skills & a working knowledge of design patterns
• Experience with designing, building and deploying scalable, highly available systems
• Strong background with modern tools and environments (e.g., JSON 3.0 API spec, web services, version control systems, bug/issue tracking tools)
• Experience with cloud & orchestration technologies (AWS Services, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
• Have or (more importantly) be willing to learn deep domain knowledge in the area of retail e-commerce
• Position may require travel
  
  

Bonus

• Experience in e-commerce
• Experience with Scrum, XP or other agile methodologies a plus
• Good communication skills with both technical and business audiences
• Experience with data analysis/mining in large scale database environments a plus
  
  

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