Senior Software Engineer

Chewy is hiring a Senior/Lead Software Engineer, Java for our Product Catalog Platform team in Minneapolis, MN or Boston, MA. This high-profile position will have exposure across the entire business, influencing the vision and implementation of architecture, design, and features for Product Catalog management. As part of a dynamic team, this role offers a tremendous opportunity for professional growth in the leading online pet retailer in the US. The role will allow you to act as an individual contributor as part of a team of strong engineers building services for Chewy’s Proprietary Brands. The role will have tremendous visibility in the technology & business organization of Chewy

What you'll do:

• Write simple and sustainable code that reflects a constant understanding of the business impacts.
• Act in the capacity of a software engineer to actively participate in the definition, design, development, testing, and implementation of software functionality using the Agile methodology
• Create or modify complex programs, modules, routines, scripts and data objects from a detailed design where efficiency, performance and reliability are critical
• Work with and advise both business and technology teams (internal and external) on how best to implement desired features and enhancements
• Ensure that technical solutions follow best practices, are reliable, are easily maintainable and are scalable under sustained load
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Collaborate to identify, isolate and resolve malfunctions related to software
• Conduct knowledge transition on solutions to the designated application support team(s)
• Create and evolve application documentation as required
• Operate in compliance with IT standards, policies, procedures, and best practices
• Play a critical role in developing a reliable and sustainable automated testing framework to improve the engineering quality and velocity.
• Work in an agile development environment and collaborate with multiple teams while experimenting with new technologies helping create solutions that puts Chewy on the cutting edge.

What you'll need:

• 10-12 years of experience as software engineer
• Strong knowledge of Java and other open source stack (spring, Kotlin)
• Working knowledge on React Framework
• 8 + years API development or engineering at scale
• Experience working across fully automated stacks in a CI/CD ecosystem
• Experience with distributed data stores at scale
• Strong Experience with lightweight middleware technologies, integration patterns, microservices
• Experience building applications using AWS services
• Experience in building event Streams with Kafka & No-SQL
• Hands-on experience leading the design, development, and deployment of business software at scale
• Be a hands-on Engineer spending significant percentage of their time writing code or debugging tricky issues.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle 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.
• 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.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience 

Bonus:

• Ecommerce experience
• PCM Experience
• Familiarity with modern tools and environments (e.g., JSON 3 API, Chaos Engineering, web services, version control systems, bug/issue tracking tools).
• Experience with Service Oriented Architecture