Software Engineer III - Full Stack

About the role

The Software Engineer III position within Chewy Plus Team is dedicated to crafting, enhancing, or creating new functionalities for pet parents. This role offers the opportunity to work on challenging customer and business problems through microservice-based backend, batch jobs, and UI development.

Responsibilities

• Design, build or enhance high-complexity components and platforms using varied technologies, focusing on customer experience, scalability, maintainability, and resiliency.
• Partner with technical and business teams on multiple initiatives, providing guidance and mentorship to the team, and collaborating to deliver new features and enhancements.
• Contribute to code quality and architecture guidelines, providing feedback, and promoting collaborative solutions for the team.
• Guide team members and advise stakeholders on improvements and optimizations to features, practices, processes, and operations.
• Communicate project status, risks, and solutions to team and stakeholders, and act as the technical point of contact to influence stakeholders regarding trade-offs.
• Lead team members by example, advocating for best practices and influencing software engineering team hiring practices as the team continues to grow.
• Participate in scrum ceremonies such as grooming, planning, demos, and retrospectives.
• Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshooting production issues, and contributing to operational excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related field and 7 years of experience, or Master’s degree and 5 years of experience in software development.
• 5+ years of experience with Java and related frameworks - Spring Boot and/or Spring Webflux.
• 5+ years of experience building, deploying, testing APIs and microservices in a distributed systems environment.
• Experience designing services and architecture in alignment with best practices and requirements.
• 2+ years of experience developing features using PostgreSQL or other SQL-based databases.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or similar tools.
• Experience with Playwright or similar automated testing tools.
• Proven experience serving in a technical lead capacity, including mentoring team members and driving results.
• Experience with AWS cloud and Terraform.
• Strong understanding of algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with high-performing, scalable systems.
• Ability to think independently and break down product requirements into well-defined tasks.
• Experience in monitoring 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 Boot and/or Spring Webflux
• PostgreSQL or other SQL-based databases
• Jenkins or similar CI/CD tools
• Playwright or similar automated testing tools
• AWS cloud and Terraform
• React.js
• e-commerce

Benefits

• Base salary range: $141,000 - $225,000.00
• 401(k) 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)
• PTO (unlimited)
• Parental leave
• Family services benefits
• Backup dependent care
• Flexible spending accounts
• Telemedicine
• Pet adoption reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• Discounts (10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com)

Pay

The base salary range for this role is $141,000 - $225,000.00. 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

This position is exempt and eligible for unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year.