Our Opportunity:

The Payments Engineering Team is seeking a hardworking and motivated Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (React and Java) in Boston, MA. Our mission is to provide pet parents and partners with the most trusted, accessible, and convenient payment experience.​ Our goal is to build a secure and efficient payment ecosystem that is easily maintainable and highly resilient. Driven by a flexible architecture, we strive to swiftly adapt to evolving business scenarios, changes in the payment landscape, and regulatory requirements.​ As an engineer in our team, you will work with a dedicated group of full-stack engineers, product managers, and business leaders in an Agile environment. As part of a dynamic team, this role offers a tremendous opportunity for professional development and growth while building innovative technologies and contributing to the scalability of the leading online pet retailer in the United States!

Your Role:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will assist in the architecting and building of scalable user experiences. You will take end-to-end ownership of building new features that will directly impact millions of customers who care for their furry family members every day. You will help drive innovation, scalability, and maintainability while providing mentorship and  partnering with other highly skilled engineering teams. Above all, you will gain the trust and confidence of those around you, from hands-on engineers to executives.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, develop and implement large scale distributed systems with large volumes of data focusing on scalability, latency and fault tolerance.
• Architect, build, deploy and scale frontend Payments Single Page Applications
• Communicate project status, risks, and solutions to team and customers, and act as technical point of contact to customers, taking responsibility and ownership of project timelines and work
• Develop Systems / Component architectures and APIs for a rapidly scaling platform, while ensuring successful product delivery and operational excellence.
• Pursue engineering excellence, leading platform level initiatives such as Kubernetes migration, building true CI/CD pipelines and refactoring our applications into a true Payments as a Service implementation
• Own and operationalize the critical metrics for Payments, building industry leading telemetry/logging to settle state and health for the applications you own
• Lead research and initiatives for cloud native designs and implementation within public clouds, primarily AWS.
• Build enterprise architecture and contribute to coding standards (scalable, performant, readable, and tested code) and ensure your code reviews set the bar for the rest of the team
• Display excellent verbal and written communication and be able to convey dissenting opinions in a constructive manner, particularly written communications
• Promote mentorship and guidance for peers and more junior engineers
• Establish strong working relationships at all organizational levels and across functional teams

What You’ll Need:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of professional development experience, including hands-on experience crafting and developing scalable, impactful, and fault-tolerant applications for large enterprises
• 5+ years of software engineering experience with Java or other Object-Oriented Programming languages
• 3+ years of experience building large-scale products using frontend technologies using React/JavaScript/ES6/Typescript/CSS
• 3+ years of experience  building event-driven architecture, processing large datasets, relational & No-SQL databases
• 3+ years of experience  in the Payments domain, with a good understanding of payment processing, wallet management and integrating with 3rd party payment processors.
• Experience with micro-services, micro-frontend, and SOA
• Expertise in measuring, evaluating, and tuning application performance using tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace and Datadog
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & standard processes for the complete SDLC, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Hands-on experience working in a public cloud environment (AWS)
• The position may require travel

Preferred:

• Experience in e-commerce and/or Healthcare
• Experience with accessibility testing
• Experience in building scalable apps in React, Java and AWS (or similar cloud platforms)
• Experience with Cucumber, Playwright, Cypress, Gatling or similar automated testing tools

Chewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members. 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.

If you have a question regarding your application, please contact HR@chewy.com.

To access Chewy's Customer Privacy Policy, please click here. To access Chewy's California CPRA Job Applicant Privacy Policy, please click here.