Our Opportunity

Chewy is seeking a Software Engineer I to join an established technology 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. Engineering plays a critical role in defining and driving our platform roadmap. We celebrate engineering successes and promote a continuous learning and improvement engineering culture. We set the bar high for delivering production-ready code by adopting CI/CD (continuous integration & continuous deployment) and DevOps engineering standard processes. Our engineers are encouraged to contribute ideas and code to our own platform and to other partner teams.

The expectations of the prospective candidate will be to design and build software components of services and or platforms. In this role, the ideal candidate will engage in development, testing, and make contributions to the growth and development of one of Chewy’s fastest growing areas. We continue to grow and always Think Big about new innovative ideas, while consistently exploring opportunities to differentiate ourselves in the industry. 

What You'll Do: 

• Apply algorithms, data structures, and design patterns to produce efficient and performant code.
• Develop, extend, and debug code within the scope of their team’s existing tools and services.
• Complete design and debug tasks. 
• Solve root causes of and solutions for bugs and production issues. 
• Will contribute to team’s best practices for logging, testing, instrumentation, metrics, monitors, alerts, practices, and processes.
• Make meaningful contributions to the team's existing service architecture, data architecture, dev-ops, and infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and public cloud services as part of a software development team.
• Participate in on-call rotations and operational excellence.

What You'll Need: 

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or similar; or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of professional experience as Software Engineer
• Hands-on experience in designing, building, and deploying scalable, highly available systems.
• 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.

Bonus: 

• Exposure in e-commerce
• Experience with Scrum, XP, or other agile methodologies 
• Experience with configuration and deployment management and be hands on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience.
• Experience with data analysis/mining in large scale database environments a plus
• Experience with AWS

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.

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