Staff Software Engineer

Key Skills

Ansible, AWS, HTTP acceleration, PowerShell Programming, Python Programming, REST API, Ruby on Rails, Shell Scripting language, SoapUI, Terraform

Job Description

What You'll Do:

• Build and consume RESTful endpoints to meet exacting latency and scale requirements.
• Operationalize science models in the supply chain space and build continuous feedback mechanisms. Evaluate and drive the corresponding technology choices.
• We Integrate endpoints with various customer flows on the website and mobile app, cutting across multiple technical and product areas/teams.
• We inspire creativity through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
• Partner with engineers across the organization evolve the architecture direction and philosophy, and be the go-to engineer for your part of the platform.
• Ensure your systems are fully CICD (or build a roadmap to it, if not there yet). Limit technical debt.
• Hire, train, mentor and strengthen team members to support Chewy’s rapid growth in engineering teams.
• Conduct design and code reviews and improve on engineering difficulty and standard.
• Debug production issues across services and tech stack.
• Continuously measure and optimize the performance, effectiveness, and uptime of backend services.
• Participate in setting guidelines for evolving development practices, as well as mentoring junior engineers.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, Physics or Electrical Engineering.
• 10+ years of experience building cloud-native high performant systems.
• 5+ years of software development with web services (SOAP/HTTP, REST).
• 3+ years of cloud & software architecture experience.
• Experience working with Node JS and the node ecosystem for web application development.
• Hands-on Engineer spending significant percentage of their time writing code or debugging tricky issues.
• Hands-on experience leading the design (OOP, data structures, design patterns), development and deployment of business software at scale.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development process including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience mentoring and training the engineering community on sophisticated technical issues.
• Experience with cloud & orchestration technologies (AWS Services, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
• Be open to some travel to develop knowledge of Chewy as an organization.

Bonus:

• Experience in e-commerce and supply chain/logistics.
• Experience with web applications (involving modern JavaScript frameworks like React or Angular), and data science infrastructure.
• Experience with building, testing, operationalizing ML / Data Science models.
• Experience with data analysis/mining in large scale database environments a plus.
• Experience with Scrum, XP or other agile methodologies.
• Good interpersonal skills with both technical and business audiences.
• Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, PowerShell).
• Familiarity with Test driven development, Jest and Cypress

Compensation & Benefits

The salary range for this position is $124,500-$255,000. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant.