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Software Engineer II

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Hybrid
Boston, MA
Mid level
Hybrid
Boston, MA
Mid level
As a Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will build and maintain resilient platforms, implementing scalable features and mentoring junior engineers while adhering to coding standards and CI/CD practices.
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Chewy's Pet Health team is on a mission to build innovative solutions for our customers and our partner vets, such as our recent launch of Chewy's first Telehealth service and Insurance. Engineering plays a meaningful role in defining and driving our platform roadmap. We take time to understand the "why" before we start crafting up the "how." We celebrate engineering successes and promote a blameless and 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 standard methodologies. Our engineers are encouraged to contribute ideas and code to our own platform and to other partner teams.
Our Opportunity:
As a Full-Stack Software Engineer on the Pet Health development team, you will build a robust, resilient, and scalable platform. You will own components of a platform and lead the design and implementation of end-to-end features using both backend and frontend technologies. You will collaborate with product owners to craft architecture based on product requirements, breaking features into small work units and ensuring high-quality production-ready code using modern CI/CD processes.
What You'll Do:
  • Design, build, deploy, and scale major platform components, microservices, and front-end features.
  • Implement and maintain adaptable and dynamic user interfaces using React and JavaScript.
  • Implement enterprise design and coding standards.
  • Build a culture of innovation through rapid prototyping and continuous delivery to production.
  • Actively participate in scrum ceremonies, including grooming, planning, demos, and retrospectives.
  • Guide and mentor junior engineers to deliver high-quality code through design and code reviews.

What You'll Need:
  • 4+ years of programming experience with Java and backend frameworks like Spring Boot.
  • Proficient in frontend technologies, including JavaScript, React, HTML, and CSS.
  • Validated experience working with modern SQL/NoSQL databases.
  • Shown understanding of algorithms and data structures.
  • Confirmed experience supplying to high-performance, 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.

Bonus
  • Experience working with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
  • Experience with Node.js for server-side development.
  • Experience in developing software for the medical or healthcare industry.
  • Familiarity with working in distributed teams across time zones.

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Chewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members. 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
GCP
HTML
Java
JavaScript
Kubernetes
Node.js
NoSQL
React
Spring Boot
SQL
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