Our Opportunity:

We are looking for a Software Engineer III at our facility in Boston, Massachusetts, for the design, development, testing, and support of software systems and related integrations.

What You’ll Do: 

• Design and build high complexity components and/or platforms.
• Partner with technical and business teams on multiple initiatives, provide guidance and mentorship to the existing team, and collaborate to deliver new features and enhancements.
• Actively guide team members and participate in the definition, design, development, testing and implementation of software functionality using an agile methodology.
• Create or modify complex scalable distributed software systems.
• Contribute to code quality requirements, provide feedback, and promote collaborative solutions for the team during code review.
• Guide team members and advise stakeholders on improvements and optimizations to features, practices, processes, and operations.
• Work with and advise stakeholders and technology teams on how best to implement desired features and enhancements.
• Communicate project status, risks, and solutions to team and stakeholders, and act as technical point of contact to influence stakeholders regarding trade-offs.
• Ensure that technical solutions follow best practices, are reliable, are easily maintainable, and are scalable under sustained load.
• Collaborate to identify, isolate, and resolve malfunctions related to software.
• Lead team members by example, advocating for best practices and influencing software engineering team hiring practices as the team continues to grow.
• Lead technical teams in the development and delivery of projects.
• Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to operational excellence.
• Local telecommuting permitted up to 3 days a week.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or a related field of study and 6 years of experience.
• Will also accept a Master’s degree and 4 years of experience.
• Experience must include 4 years with: software engineering;
• Working with web services (SOAP/HTTP, REST);
• SQL and developing modules with relational databases; and
• Designing software services and/or components and architecture.
• Experience must include: developing software components and/or services using Java 8, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JQuery, JSON, AngularJS, Tomcat, HTML5, CSS3, Spring MVC;
• Server technologies;
• Acting in technical lead capacity;
• Quality assurance methodologies and automated testing using tools such as Selenium/Jmeter, e-commerce;
• Experience with any of the following: AWS, Terraform, Agile/Scrum, open-source technologies, responsive module design, or continuous integration using Jenkins;
• Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Lambdas, S3 and Kubernetes;
• Relational databases including Postgres;
• Non-relational database design, including Dynamo; and
• Software estimation and planning.
• Local telecommuting permitted up to 3 days a week.
• The position is eligible for the Employee Referral Program.

Chewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact CAAR@chewy.com.

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