Software Engineer II

About the role

The Chewy Plus Team is dedicated to creating innovative and exciting solutions that support Chewy's mission to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners. We focus on understanding the "why" behind our projects before implementing solutions, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement in engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement solutions using varied technologies with a focus on scalability, latency, and resiliency.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate product requirements into well-defined technical solutions and deliver high-quality features.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code, develop clear technical designs, and participate in code and design reviews to ensure adherence to engineering standards and best practices.
• Contribute to the evolution of service architecture, data architecture, DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and public cloud services as part of a collaborative software development team.
• Communicate development progress, risks, and technical trade-offs to stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers while leading by example through strong engineering practices.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives.
• Participate in on-call rotations to monitor production systems and investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve production incidents to maintain system reliability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science (or a related field) or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years of experience with Java and related frameworks - Spring Webflux and/or Spring Boot.
• 4+ years of experience building, deploying, testing APIs and microservices in a distributed systems environment.
• 2+ years of experience developing features using PostgreSQL or other SQL-based databases.
• 2+ years of experience in system design.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar tool.
• Experience with Playwright or similar automation testing tools.
• Experience with AWS cloud and Terraform.
• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with high-performing and scalable systems.
• Able to think independently and break down product requirements into well-defined tasks.
• Experience in monitoring the production environment, troubleshooting, triaging, and addressing production issues.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience developing user interfaces using React.js, including component design, state management, TypeScript, and integration with RESTful APIs.
• Experience in e-commerce.

Skills

• Java
• Spring Webflux and/or Spring Boot
• PostgreSQL or other SQL-based databases
• System design
• CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar tool
• Playwright or similar automation testing tools
• AWS cloud and Terraform
• Data structures and algorithms
• High-performing and scalable systems
• Independent problem-solving skills
• Product requirement breakdown
• Production monitoring and issue resolution

Benefits

• 401k
• New hire and annual equity grant
• Annual bonus eligibility
• Different types of insurance and benefits, including medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident
• Paid holidays (6)
• Paid sick and family leave (compliance with applicable state and local regulations)
• Parental leave
• Family services benefits
• Backup dependent care
• Flexible spending accounts
• Telemedicine
• Pet adoption reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• Discounts, including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com

Pay

The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant. C08+ positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.

Schedule

Exempt salary team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year.