Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack - Content Platform
Staff/ Lead Software Engineer – Full Stack – Content Platform
Our Opportunity
Chewy is hiring a Lead Software Engineer – Full Stack for our Content Platform team in Minneapolis, MN; Boston, MA; or Dania Beach, FL. This is a high-profile position that will have exposure across the entire business, influencing the vision and implementation of frontend architecture, design and features for Chewy Customers. The role will allow you to act as a technology leader on a team of strong engineers building services for expanding content targeting across all key chewy.com pages, launch a content authoring & delivery engine to allow for full operationalization of targeting as an evergreen strategy used to drive high value actions (HVA), and improve the overall site experience for Chewy customers. At Chewy, Lead/Staff Software Engineers are constantly innovating, developing frameworks, establishing governance and defining the architecture for our next generation platforms. They understand our business goals, collaborate with other leaders, innovate rapidly, delivering high-quality and high-value functionality.
What does it take to thrive as a Staff Software Engineer at Chewy? You need to be innovative, creative, responsible, and curious while leading a team of engineers to move quickly to deliver results for our customers. You’re passionate about designing and implementing solutions that scale and engage customers to understand what’s needed to meet their needs. You’re able to think about platforms, architecture, design principles, understand operational implications, and lead us in evolving our service architecture in the course of a single conversation. You’re looking to work with engineering leadership and mentor a team of bright, capable engineers to implement your vision.
What You’ll Do
- You will have responsibility over major components of Chewy’s Content frontend architecture and platform – both development and operational needs. You will be the go-to engineer for your part of the platform
- Apply vision, strategy, and thought leadership to impact Chewy, at scale
- Evolve and grow our world-class Chewy Content targeting experience, serving personalized content to our millions of visits
- Immerse yourself in imagining and providing cutting-edge solutions to build high-performance, low-latency web and mobile-web experiences
- Have a relentless focus on scalability, latency, performance robustness, and cost trade-offs -- especially those present in highly virtualized, elastic, cloud-based environments
- Apply rigorous analysis to identify issues affecting customer experience and iterative improve features
- Establish engineering excellence on the team and drive focus on scalability, resiliency, high availability & performance of applications
- Actively mentor engineers, build and foster a strong engineering team culture and be a key contributor in raising the bar of the engineering org
- Generate and analyze engineering metrics to inform leadership in making data driven decisions
- Champion quality initiatives and best practices to enable the team to continue to develop high quality, maintainable, and performant code
- Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization
- Display excellent verbal and written communication and be able to convey dissenting opinions in a constructive manner, particularly written communications
What You'll Need
- 15+ years of industry work experience
- 12+ years of experience leading and developing large scale projects and initiatives
- 6+ years of industry experience in software development in one or more of React, Javascript, Typescript, Next.js
- Ability to collaborate effectively with a diverse, talented team
- Strong proven ability in building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems
- Familiarity with cloud native technology stacks and service-oriented architecture
- Clear understanding of emerging technologies and ability to apply those principles in solving critical business needs
- Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or another related field
Bonus
- Strong engineering background building products that are ecommerce scale
- Prior roles in Ecommerce or in technology companies
- Experience working with AWS technologies
- Experience in building high performance systems
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