Senior Software Engineer

Our Opportunity:
Chewy's Sponsored Ads business is expanding rapidly, and we're seeking skilled Senior Engineers to help shape the future of our ad platform. If you're passionate about building intuitive user experiences for advertisers and customers alike, we'd love to hear from you! In this role, you'll drive iterative development, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to the growth of one of Chewy's fastest-growing revenue streams.
About You:
As an experienced Software Engineer with a background in backend and full-stack development, you excel at working on backend services with technologies like Java, Kotlin, Kafka, and SQL and NoSQL databases. You're comfortable using TypeScript, React, NodeJS, and Express to work on customer and internal facing applications. You have strong experience in CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), cloud environments (AWS), and service-oriented architecture.
Your hands-on experience and track record ensure you can build and ship new applications or features to existing applications, quickly and efficiently.
About the Team:
Launched in 2022, Chewy's Sponsored Ads platform enables vendors to promote their products onsite and offsite, significantly contributing to Chewy's revenue growth. The team manages both customer-facing and vendor-facing experiences, balancing a startup culture with operational excellence. We are based in Boston and Seattle.
What You'll Do:

• Be responsible for delivering projects, designing systems, and mentoring junior engineers.
• Design, develop and implement solutions using varied technologies focusing on scalability, maintainability, latency, and resiliency.
• Participate in team estimation process and deliver according to the estimates.
• Perform code reviews and provide meaningful feedback to other engineers on the team.
• Apply dev ops practices to minimize technical debt and improve release cycles.
• Participate in user research to understand customer needs and enhance our ad platform.
• Establish strong working relationships at all organizational levels and across functional teams.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer focusing on modern Java (or similar OO language) service development. Familiarity with modern web development using JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (React, Vue, or Angular).
• Proven experience building scalable, highly available systems.
• Great coding and debugging skills.
• Passion for metrics and data-driven decision making.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Solid understanding of CS fundamentals: object-oriented design, algorithms, data design, and problem-solving.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Bonus:

• Experience in ad tech and/or e-commerce.
• Experience with Scrum, XP or other agile methodologies.
• Familiarity with test driven development.
• Familiarity with AWS.

Chewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members. 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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