Staff Software Engineer Frontend

Our Opportunity:

Chewy is hiring a Staff Software Engineer (Frontend) for our Content Platform. This is a high-profile position that will have exposure across the entire business, influencing the vision and implementation of frontend architecture, design, and features for Chewy Customers. This role will see you act as a technology leader on a team of engineers launching new services for expanding content targeting and improving the overall site experience for Chewy customers across all key chewy.com pages. At Chewy, Staff Software Engineers are constantly innovating, developing frameworks, establishing governance and defining the architecture for our next generation platforms.

What does it take to thrive as a Staff Software Engineer at Chewy? You need to be innovative, creative, and curious while leading a team of engineers to move quickly to deliver results for our customers. You are passionate about our business goals and about designing and implementing solutions that scale and engage customers. You’re able to think about and articulate architecture, design principles, understand operational implications, and lead us in evolving our service architecture in the course of a single conversation. You’re looking to work with engineering leadership and mentor a team of bright, capable engineers to implement your vision.

What You'll Do:

• You will have responsibility over major components of Chewy’s Content frontend architecture and platform – both development and operational needs.
• Apply vision, strategy, and thought leadership to impact Chewy, at scale.
• Evolve and grow our world-class Chewy Content targeting experience, serving personalized content to our millions of visitors.
• Immerse yourself in imagining and providing cutting-edge solutions to build high-performance, low-latency web and mobile-web experiences.
• Have a relentless focus on scalability, latency, performance robustness, and cost trade-offs -- especially those present in highly virtualized, elastic, cloud-based environments.
• Ability to provide technical direction and oversight of multiple engineering teams concurrently.
• Actively mentor engineers, build and foster a strong engineering team culture and be a key contributor in raising the bar of the engineering org.
• Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization.
• Display excellent verbal and written communication and be able to convey dissenting opinions in a constructive manner, particularly written communications.

What You'll Need:

• 10+ years of industry experience in software development with JavaScript, and proven expertise with React
• Significant experience leading and developing large scale projects and initiatives
• Proven ability building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems
• Familiarity with cloud native technology stacks and service-oriented architecture
• Clear understanding of emerging technologies and ability to apply those principles in solving critical business needs
• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or another related field

Bonus:

• Strong engineering background building ecommerce products or products that are ecommerce scale
• Experience working with AWS technologies
• Experience with GraphQL, Kotlin, Java development

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