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Software Engineer II Front End

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Hybrid
Boston, MA
Mid level
Hybrid
Boston, MA
Mid level
As a Software Engineer II, you will design and develop frontend components, integrate APIs, and enhance service architecture while mentoring junior engineers.
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Our Team:
Chewy Plus Team is building innovative and exciting solutions towards chewy's mission to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners everywhere. We take time to understand the "why" before we start shaping up the "how." We celebrate engineering successes and promote a continuous learning and improvement engineering culture. We set the bar high for delivering production-ready code by adopting CI/CD (continuous integration & continuous deployment) and DevOps engineering best practices. We encourage our engineers to contribute ideas and solutions in tech stacks across the company.
Your Role:
As a Software Engineer, you will have the ability to craft, enhance or create new functionalities for pet parents. As a full stack developer, you will have the ability to experience working with UI, microservice based backend and data processing for solving challenging customer and business problems. Your work will directly impact millions of customers who care for their furry family members every day. You will be a part of an amazing team and contributing to a growth initiative.
What You'll Do:
  • Design, develop and implement solutions using varied technologies focusing on scalability, latency, and resiliency.
  • Build or enhance front end components using front end technology such as ReactJS.
  • Build and Integrate APIs, contribute to the development of microservices using backend technology such as Java and Spring boot.
  • Actively participate in architecture and code reviews to deliver high quality code.
  • Actively participate in scrum ceremonies such as grooming, planning, demos and retros.
  • Make meaningful contributions to the team's service architecture, data architecture, dev-ops, infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines and public cloud services as part of a software development team.
  • Adhere to enterprise architecture and coding standards.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshooting production issues and operational excellence.
  • Guide and mentor junior engineers to deliver high-quality code through design and code reviews.

Minimum Qualifications:
  • 4+ years of strong programming experience with frontend technologies, including ReactJS, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
  • Experience developing and integrating RESTful APIs using Java and frameworks like Spring Boot or Spring Web Flux.
  • Experience in working with SQL databases such as Postgres.
  • 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.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science (or a related field) or equivalent work experience.
  • Experience in monitoring production environment, troubleshooting, triaging and addressing production issues.

Preferred:
  • Experience in designing, building and deploying backend solutions using Java.
  • Experience with Playwright or similar automated testing tools.
  • Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms.
  • Experience developing CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or similar tool.

Chewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact [email protected].
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Top Skills

AWS
CSS
HTML
Java
JavaScript
Jenkins
Postgres
React
Spring Boot
SQL
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