Lead Software Engineer - Java

Our Opportunity:

Chewy is hiring a Backend Software Engineer III to join our Fulfillment Support Applications (FSA) team. At Chewy, it is our mission to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners everywhere. We have evolved into an innovative Fortune 500 industry leader. 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 and DevOps engineering standard processes. As an experienced Software Engineer with expertise in backend development using programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Python, or other Object-Oriented Programming languages, along with proficiency in SQL and NoSQL database technologies, you will independently design and develop sophisticated components and systems. You should be comfortable with architecting and building scalable user experiences with a group of full-stack engineers, product managers, and business leaders.  Your work will primarily focus on building and enhancing labor planning and management systems while driving efficiency and optimization within fulfillment operations. Proficiency in data engineering pipeline setup, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms (AWS) and is crucial.The expectations of the prospective candidate will be the design, development, testing, and support of software systems and related integrations. This individual will partner with both technical and business teams on multiple initiatives, provide guidance and mentorship to the existing team, and collaborate to deliver new features and enhancements.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and develop system architectures, components, and APIs to support a rapidly scaling platform, ensuring efficient product delivery and maintaining high operational quality
• Design, develop, and maintain premier labor planning and labor management systems for fulfillment operations
• Develop enterprise-level architecture, establish coding standards for scalability, performance, readability, and testing, and ensure code reviews uphold high standards for the team
• Actively guide Team Members and participate in the definition, design, development, testing and implementation of software functionality using an agile methodology 
• Ensure technical solutions implemented by the team are built to follow standard processes, remain robust, and are both maintainable and scalable under heavy load
• Collaborate with DevOps to design and manage the cloud infrastructure, focusing on scalability, high availability, and disaster recovery
• Work closely with data scientists, data engineers, and business partners to understand data needs and develop robust solutions that meet business objectives
• Display excellent verbal and written communication and be able to convey dissenting opinions in a constructive manner
• Offer mentorship and guidance for peers and more junior engineers
• Establish strong working relationships at all organizational levels and across functional teams
• Participate in on-call rotations and operational excellence

What You’ll Need:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of professional back-end development experience in designing and building scalable enterprise systems and architecture by using Java, Kotlin, Python, or other Object-Oriented Programming languages
• 5+ years of experience building large-scale products using frontend technologies like React/JavaScript/Vue/Typescript/CSS
• Experience with AWS data services, including but not limited to AWS EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3
• Experience working with event driven architectures and sound understanding of at least one event streaming solution (Kafka, SNS, etc.)
• Experience in PostgresSQL and related modules such as pglogical etc. with strong expertise in SQL
• Experience in Data Engineering pipeline setup is desired, especially real time data ingestion and transformation using Kafka/SQS along with orchestration tools such as Airflow  
• Experience developing CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or similar tool
• Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals – object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Consistent record of effectively communicating with customers
• Must be team oriented and have a customer first mentality

Bonus (if applicable):

• Experience in building scalable and high-availability system from scratch
• Familiarity with Application monitoring tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace etc.
• Experience handling infrastructure as code with tools like Terraform
• Experience working in e-commerce

Compensation & Benefits:

Our salary range for a Software Engineer III position is $134,500.00 - $215,000.00. 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. We offer different types of insurance, such as medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident. We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com. Salaried-exempt team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.