Staff Software Engineer, Pet Health
Our Opportunity:
Chewy is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for our eCommerce Pet Health Systems team in Boston, MA. As a Staff Engineer, you will have development and operational oversight over major systems at Chewy. You will be in charge of evaluating new technologies, designing, developing and deploying impactful software capabilities to enhance or create new functionality needed to grow Chewy. You will have the opportunity to be part of a high performing engineering team where we value broad-based technical skills in cloud-based services, databases, security, server-less technologies, and more.
What You'll Do:
- You will participate in working with all of the top engineers at Chewy to drive software architecture direction for major products at Chewy
- You will have responsibility over major components of Chewy’s architecture – both development and operational needs. You will be the go-to engineer for your part of the platform
- You will be responsible for ensuring your systems are fully CICD and have responsibility of a plan to get to CICD if not there yet
- Limiting technical debt will be your key objective
- Hiring, training, mentoring and growing new talent will be a major part of your job as Chewy is growing all teams at a record pace
- Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development
- Conduct design and code reviews and raise the bar 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
- You will participate in setting guidelines for evolving development practices, as well as mentoring junior engineers
What You'll Need:
- 10+ years of experience in an object-oriented language such as Java or Python
- 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
- Experience in designing and building service-oriented architectures
- Experience mentoring and training the engineering community on complex technical issues
- Sharp analytical abilities and proven design skills & a working knowledge of design patterns
- Experience with designing, building and deploying scalable, highly available systems
- Strong background with modern tools and environments (e.g., XML, web services, version control systems, bug/issue tracking tools)
- 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
Bonus:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, Physics or Electrical Engineering
- Experience in E-Commerce
- Experience with Scrum, XP or other agile methodologies a plus
- Good communication skills with both technical and business audiences
- Experience in web technologies such as JavaScript, JQuery, JQuery mobile, AJAX and HTML5, frameworks like Django, Flask, Zappa or Serverless
- Experience with data analysis/mining in large scale database environments a plus
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