Chewy
At Chewy, our mission is to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners, everywhere.
Boston, MA
Hybrid

Staff Software Engineer

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Our Opportunity:

Millions of pet parents with unique needs visit Chewy.com looking for products for their beloved pets. We have the task to decide what products would be most useful to them and help them discover those products. How do we do this?

Meet Recommendations Team at Chewy. We use best of machine learning techniques and continuously test the outcomes to simplify product discovery for pet parents looking for their pet needs on Chewy.com. Our exceptional multi-disciplinary team of data scientists, data engineers, software/front-end engineers and product managers work together to power personalized recommendations and product discovery for pet parents. Our mission is to make Chewy a trusted partner who meets pet-parents’ needs in an intuitively personalized and friction-free way. Our team has single threaded ownership of the space allowing us to decide impactful products that we can experiment, measure with metrics, and deliver to maximize value to our customers.

We are hiring Staff Software Engineers for our Recommendations Team in Boston, MA. In this position, you will build robust, resilient, and scalable platform that support real-time machine learning applications. Goal is to make it extremely easy to build, deploy, and monitor data-science models in production. Your work will directly impact millions of customers who shop for their furry family members every day. Engineers in this team focus on learning, and on working together as a team to deliver technical products that our customers love.  

What you'll do:

  • You will partner with top engineers at Chewy to build reliable, scalable, and resilient micro-services to build machine learning applications for Chewy.com
  • You will work with product team to build “platform as a product” – not just an infrastructure.
  • You will lead the team to build architecture that scales well for offline, online, and personalized ML models.
  • Conduct design and code reviews and raise the bar on engineering rigor and standards.
  • Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
  • Continuously benchmark yourself and the team against the best
  • Set guidelines for evolving development practices, as well as mentoring junior engineers.
  • Work with a team of awesome people who are passionate about personalization.

What you'll need:

  • 8+ years of experience designing, building, deploying, operating, scaling, testing, and evolving distributed systems and high-volume transaction application in a 24/7 environment.
  • 8+ years of industry experience in software development in Java or other object-oriented programming languages and related ecosystems like Spring Boot.
  • Must possess a bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.
  • Passion for writing code and delivering working software iteratively; You’ll spend significant amount of time creating frameworks to help the business/teams build ML applications faster.
  • Strong in CS fundamentals: OO/System Design, data Structures, algorithms, problem solving, complexity analysis.
  • Experience with Sprint Boot, Docker containers, CI/CD, and developing and deploying RESTful services in production.
  • Experience with AWS Services (ECS, DynamoDB, Redis, Kinesis, etc)
  • Desire to learn and pickup new technologies easily. 

Bonus:

  • Experience in e-commerce building personalized applications.  
  • Experience with ML Services in AWS (SageMaker, Personalize)
  • Experience building platform (like SageMaker) that can host ML applications.

Chewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members.
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What are Chewy Perks + Benefits

Chewy Benefits Overview

We offer competitive salaries and 401k, unlimited time off, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, in addition to wellness programs, online communities, and resources for improved physical and mental health... enabling you to be your best self - in and outside of work. With mentorship programs, employee resource groups, cross-functional job trainings, events, and customized development tracks for advancement, we're proud to help develop and promote our team members from within.

True to our business, we're pet-friendly and have fun pet-related perks like Paw-ternity leave for new pup parents and Chewy employee discounts. We offer countless volunteer opportunities, recreational club teams, company outings, happy hours, and team events to enable you to bond with fellow Chewtopians and have some fun!

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Pair programming
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
We're currently 100% remote due to caution and care for the health & well-being of our team. Post-pandemic, we plan to operate in a combination of onsite and remote, with logistics still being defined
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Highly diverse management team
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
We offer a commuter transit, parking, and dependent care FSA.
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Performance bonus
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Pet friendly
Recreational clubs
Chewy sponsors office sports leagues year-round.
Relocation assistance
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Cross-functional lunch and learns.
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks

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