Software Engineer II

Our Opportunity:

Chewy is seeking a Software Engineer II to join our Pet Health team in Boston, MA. At Chewy, it is our mission to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents (and partners) everywhere. We have evolved into an innovative Fortune 500 industry leader.

We are a team that is customer-centric, innovates, and experiments in an environment of mutual trust and respect. We take great pride in building highly scalable services using modern methodology, automation, and best engineering practices. We celebrate learning from failures as much as we celebrate our success.

Our engineers are creative contributors, visionary leaders, writing artistic code, have laser-sharp focus, use cutting-edge technology and see direct impact of their work. We encourage continuous development and test-driven development.

We are Practice Hub. We are bridging the vet-to-pet parent relationship across the country, and we are only getting started.

What You’ll Do:

• Actively participate in the definition, design, development, testing and implementation of software functionality using an agile methodology
• Build and modify scalable distributed software systems.
• Partner with stakeholders and technology teams 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
• Create and evolve system-related documentation
• Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to operational excellence

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or similar; or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience in software engineering
• 3+ years of experience in an object-oriented language such as Java
• Minimum 3 years of software development in Java8/Spring Boot stack
• Minimum of 3 years of cloud architecture and service development experience
• 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
• Have or (more importantly) be willing to learn deep domain knowledge in the area of retail e-commerce

Bonus:

• Development experience with GraphQL services (client and server)
• Experience with Scrum, XP or other agile methodologies a plus
• Good communication skills with both technical and business audiences
• Experience with configuration and deployment management via Terraform/Ansible/cloud formation, etc.
• Experience with OpenAPI, Swagger, or stoplight.io
• Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, Powershell)
• You’ve made or contributed to open-source projects and have your fair share of side projects
• Experience working in e-commerce