Chewy

Lead Software Engineer, Java - Pet Health

Boston, MA
Node.js Java SQL Angular GCP Kubernetes Machine Learning Spring React TypeScript AWS
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Description

Our Culture:

Chewy’s Pet Health is on a mission to build innovative solutions for our customers and our partner vets. Engineering plays a critical role in defining and executing our platform roadmap. We take time to understand the “why” before we start shaping up the “how.” We celebrate engineering successes and promote a blameless, continuous learning and improvement engineering environment & culture. We set high standards for delivering production-ready code by adopting CI/CD (continuous integration & continuous deployment) and DevOps engineering best practices. Our engineers are encouraged to contribute ideas and code to our own platform and to other partner teams.

 

Our Team:

Chewy’s Pet Health is focused on redefining how vets and pet parents care for their pets and are on a multi-year journey to reinvent the experience of working with your veterinarian to keep your pets happy and healthy. For veterinarians, we bring best-in-class practice management software, with 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. Pet parents, we bring a best-in-class mobile app including a membership-based experience to deeply engage with their veterinarians, and seamless access to book appointments, manage their pets' medical records, sign-up for wellness/insurance programs, and ultimately build a rich, long-term relationship with their veterinarians. Join our growing team and help us transform the pet industry!

 

Your Role:

As a Lead 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 development. You will have the ability to experience working as a full stack engineer with UI, microservice based backend, data processing and machine learning, all while solving complex business problems.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, deploy and scale major platform components and services
  • Lead teams of 2-5 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


Minimum 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:

  • 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 timezones

 

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

 

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