Software Engineer III, Pet Health

Your Role 

Chewy is hiring a Software Engineer III (Back End) for our Boston, MA, Plantation, FL, or Minneapolis, MN office. As a Software Engineer III 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.

Responsibilities 

• Design, build, deploy and scale major platform components and services.
• Lead development of major features from design to production.
• Collaborate with other teams within the organization to build features that involve dependencies between teams
• 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 software development processes such as grooming, planning, demos and retros.
• Adhere to enterprise design and coding standards. 

Qualifications 

• 8+ 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. 
• Experience with cloud technologies like AWS / GCP
• Experience using Docker and Kubernetes
• 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. 

Bonus Qualifications 

• Experience in frontend technologies such as React, Angular or TypeScript 
• Experience working with data processing pipelines
• Experience developing software for the medical industry
• Working with distributed teams in different time zones