Pet Health - Software Engineer III (Backend)

Your Role 

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Pet Health development team, you will build a robust, resilient, and scalable platform. You will own major components of a platform and lead the design and build of production-ready code enforcing CI/CD processes to ensure speed and quality. You will collaborate with product owners to design architecture based on product requirements, breaking features into small work units and leading end-to-end feature.

Our Team 

Chewy’s Pet Health team is on a mission to build innovative solutions for our customers and partner veterinarians. At Chewy, we build data driven solutions to bring veterinarians and pet parents together on a single platform. For veterinarians, we bring best-in-class practice management software, Rhapsody.  Rhapsody has industry leading veterinary vocabulary, mobile workflow, and scalability for corporate groups of all sizes, as well as best in class analytics solutions to unlock full potential of the practice. For pet parents, we bring a best-in-class mobile app, Boop. Boop is a membership-based experience to deeply engage with their veterinarians. Through Boop, pet parents have seamless access to book appointments, manage pets' medical records, sign-up for Chewy’s wellness/insurance programs, and ultimately build a rich, long-term sustainable relationship with their veterinarians. Chewy’s Pet Health is industry first by combining pet parents and veterinarians onto a single platform, serving the entire industry with best-in-class software. Join our growing team and help us transform the pet industry! 

Responsibilities 

• Design, build, deploy and scale major platform components and services.
• Lead teams of up to 5 engineers to deliver major features from design to production.
• Guide and mentor junior engineers to deliver the best quality code through design and code reviews.
• Build a culture of innovation through rapid prototyping and continuous delivery to production.
• Actively participate in scrum ceremonies such as grooming, planning, demos and retros.
• Adhere to enterprise design and coding standards. 

Qualifications 

• 7+ years of programming experience with Java. 
• Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures. 
• Proven experience contributing to development of high-performance systems. 
• Proven experience working with Spring/Spring Boot/Spring Data ecosystem. 
• Proven experience working with modern SQL/NoSQL databases. 
• Ability to think independently and participate in breaking down product requirements into well-defined small tasks. 
• Ability to lead independent projects, responsible for interacting with multiple development teams. 
• Bachelor's degree (Computer Science or similar technical field of study preferred), or equivalent work experience. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience in frontend technologies such as React, Angular or TypeScript 
• Working with GCP and/or AWS 
• Experience working with Kubernetes
• Experience working with Node.js
• Experience working with data processing pipelines
• Experience developing software for the medical industry
• Working with distributed teams in different time zones