As a Software Engineer III at Chewy, you will design and operate high-scale services while mentoring engineers and influencing product direction.
Our Opportunity
Chewy's Inventory Technology group builds the platforms that make real-time inventory visibility, placement, and movement possible across our entire supply-chain network. As an Engineer III you'll design and operate high-scale, event-driven services that keep millions of items in the right place at the right time. You will pair deep technical ownership with leadership in Chewy's Operating Principles-Debate Openly & Commit Fully, Operate at Depth, and Accelerate Time-while mentoring engineers and shaping our engineering culture.
What You'll Do
What You'll Need
Bonus
We're building something special. Join us and help shape the future. We'd love to hear from you
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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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Chewy's Inventory Technology group builds the platforms that make real-time inventory visibility, placement, and movement possible across our entire supply-chain network. As an Engineer III you'll design and operate high-scale, event-driven services that keep millions of items in the right place at the right time. You will pair deep technical ownership with leadership in Chewy's Operating Principles-Debate Openly & Commit Fully, Operate at Depth, and Accelerate Time-while mentoring engineers and shaping our engineering culture.
What You'll Do
- Build and develop distributed systems using Java 8+, Spring Boot, and AWS components like Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, S3, and API Gateway.
- Own features end-to-end: from RFC and architecture review through coding, deployment, and post-launch measurement.
- Lead on-call rotations; drive root-cause analysis, observability improvements, and operational excellence.
- Coach and improve engineers through design sessions, code reviews, and learning opportunities.
- Influence product direction by translating ambiguous business problems into resilient, scalable solutions.
- Advocate for standard methodologies in testing, secure coding, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation), and performance tuning.
- Collaborate multi-functionally with product, data science, fulfillment ops, and partner engineering teams to align roadmaps with business outcomes.
What You'll Need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of professional software-engineering experience (or 5+ with a track record of technical leadership on production scale systems).
- Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and micro-services running in AWS.
- Strong grasp of distributed-system patterns (asynchronous messaging, event sourcing, eventual consistency).
- Proven ability to deliver from ideation through production support with minimal mentorship.
- Proficiency with Git, CI/CD pipelines
- Excellent communication skills and comfort navigating ambiguity while balancing near-term execution with long-term strategy.
Bonus
- Experience in high-volume e-commerce, logistics, or supply-chain domains.
- Exposure to data-intensive architectures and observability stacks (Grafana, Datadog, Splunk).
- Working knowledge of modern front-end frameworks (React or Vue).
We're building something special. Join us and help shape the future. We'd love to hear from you
#LI-SA2
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].
To access Chewy's Customer Privacy Policy, please click here.
To access Chewy's California CPRA Job Applicant Privacy Policy, please click here.
Top Skills
Api Gateway
AWS
CloudFormation
DynamoDB
Git
Java
Lambda
S3
Spring Boot
Sqs
Terraform
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