Senior Software Engineer (Product)

Chewy is seeking a Software Engineer to join our team in Bellevue, WA. The expectations of the prospective candidate will be the design, development, testing, implementation, and support of applications and related integrations. In this role, the ideal candidate will engage in iterative development, testing, and make contributions to the growth and development of one of Chewy’s fastest growing areas. This energetic individual will partner with both technical and business teams on multiple initiatives and collaborate to deliver new features and enhancements.  

What You'll Do: 

• Serve as a technical lead on business critical, cross-functional projects.
• Design, develop, and implement large scale distributed systems that process and serve large volumes of data.
• Hold a high bar for the quality of the architecture and design of systems.
• Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development
• Decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions that operationally scale and are easily maintained.
• Instill engineering excellence in the team and have the drive to focus on scalability, resiliency, high availability and performance of applications.
• Actively mentor engineers, build and foster a strong engineering team culture, and be a key contributor in raising the bar of the engineering org.
• Generate and analyze engineering metrics to inform leadership and make data driven decisions
• Exhibit excellent verbal and written communication and convey dissenting opinions in a constructive manner.

What You'll Need: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related field or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 4+ years designing, building, deploying, operating, scaling, testing, and evolving distributed systems and high-volume transaction applications
• 3+ years of industry experience in software development in Java, C#, C++, or other object-oriented programming languages.
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills.
• AWS development experience or other major cloud provider
• Experience in Agile/Scrum development process
• Must be team oriented and have a customer service mindset
• Position may require travel

Bonus:  

• Masters or PhD in Computer Science or related field.3+ years of experience in SQL and developing applications with relational database technologies (PostGres preferred)
• Experience taking a project from inception through launch. Includes influencing the vision, communicating with leadership, stakeholders, and technical teams to disambiguate requirements, describe software product features, and produce technical design documents.

Compensation & Benefits
The salary range for this position is $107,000-$215,000. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant.