Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

About the role

Chewy is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for our fast-paced, customer-first Sponsored Ads team. This role is instrumental in launching innovative, customer-facing products crafted to delight and engage Chewy’s advertising partners, while scaling our advertising technology and strengthening brand partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Participate in working with all of the top engineers at Chewy and other partner technology teams to evolve architecture direction of all development at Chewy.
• Have responsibility over major components of Chewy’s architecture – both development and operational needs.
• Be the go-to engineer for your part of the platform.
• Be responsible for ensuring your systems are fully CI/CD and have a plan to get to CI/CD if not there yet.
• Limited technical debt will be your key objective.
• Hire, train, mentor and grow new talent as Chewy is growing all teams at a record pace.
• Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
• Conduct design and code reviews and improve on engineering rigor and standard.
• Debug production issues across services and tech stack.
• Continuously measure and optimize the performance, effectiveness, and uptime of backend services.
• Participate in setting guidelines for evolving development practices, as well as mentoring junior engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree (MIS or CS preferred) or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of experience in an object-oriented language such as Java and relevant Java ecosystem like Spring Boot based applications
• Prior experience in Display ads engineering systems will be a huge plus
• Hands-on Staff technical engineering lead who can work with technical stakeholders, product managers, data scientists and help evolve the technical roadmap of this new display ads initiatives
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development process 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
• Experience with designing, building and deploying scalable, highly available systems
• Experience with cloud & orchestration technologies (AWS Services, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
• Have or (more importantly) be willing to learn deep domain knowledge in the area of retail e-commerce

Qualifications

• Experience in e-commerce, display ads engineering systems
• Experience with Scrum, XP or other agile methodologies (a plus)
• Good communication skills with both technical and business audiences
• Experience with data analysis/mining in large scale database environments (a plus)