Senior Front End Engineer

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Bellevue, WA
116K-184K Annually
7+ Years Experience
eCommerce • Healthtech • Pet • Retail • Pharmaceutical
At Chewy, our mission is to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners, everywhere.
The Role
As a Senior Front-End Engineer at Chewy, you will lead projects to enhance the Sponsored Ads platform, develop scalable solutions, mentor junior engineers, and ensure high-quality deliverables through code reviews and collaboration. You'll also apply DevOps practices and work with cross-functional teams to drive insights from user research.
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Our Opportunity:

Chewy's Sponsored Ads business is expanding rapidly, and we're seeking skilled Senior Front-End Engineers to help shape the future of our ad platform. If you're passionate about building intuitive user experiences for advertisers and customers alike, we'd love to hear from you! In this role, you’ll drive iterative development, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to the growth of one of Chewy’s fastest-growing revenue streams.

About You:

As an experienced Software Engineer with a background in frontend and full-stack development, you excel in using TypeScript, React, NodeJS, and Express. You're also comfortable working on backend services with technologies like Java, Kotlin, Kafka, and both SQL/NoSQL databases. You have expertise in CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), cloud environments (AWS), and authentication services.

Your hands-on experience and track record ensure you can build and ship new applications or features to existing applications, quickly and efficiently. 

About the Team:

Launched in 2022, Chewy's Sponsored Ads platform enables vendors to promote their products on-site and offsite, significantly contributing to Chewy’s revenue growth. The team manages both customer-facing and vendor-facing experiences, balancing a startup culture with operational excellence. We are based in Boston and Seattle.

What You'll Do:

  • Be responsible for delivering projects, designing systems, and mentoring junior engineers.
  • Design, develop and implement solutions using varied technologies focusing on scalability, latency, and resiliency.
  • Own team estimation process and deliver according to the estimates.
  • Perform code reviews and provide meaningful feedback to other engineers on the team.
  • Apply DevOps practices to minimize technical debt and improve release cycles.
  • Participate in user research to understand customer needs and enhance our ad platform.
  • Establish strong working relationships at all organizational levels and across functional teams.

What You'll Need:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, focusing on modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (React, Vue, or Angular).
  • Proven experience building scalable, highly available systems.
  • Ninja coding and debugging skills
  • Passion for metrics and data-driven decision making.
  • Knowledge of professional software engineering practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations
  • Solid understanding of CS fundamentals: object-oriented design, algorithms, and problem-solving
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Bonus:

  • Experience in Ad Tech and/or e-commerce.
  • Experience with Scrum, XP or other agile methodologies.
  • Familiarity with Test driven development.
  • Familiarity with AWS.

Compensation & Benefits:

Our salary range for a Software Engineer III position is $115,500.00 - $183,500.00. 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.

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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Kotlin
Typescript

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The Company
Bellevue, WA
20,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

At Chewy, our mission is to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners, everywhere. We view pets and pet parents as family, and are obsessed with meeting their needs and exceeding customer expectations through every interaction. Behind the scenes, our talented teams are made up of innovators, delighters, big-thinkers and of course, passionate pet people—creating a place where you'll be empowered to build, growand unleash your fullest potential.

Launched in 2011, we offer the personalized service of a neighborhood pet store alongside the convenience and speed of e-commerce. Customers love shopping our wide selection of products of more than 100,000 products (including our Private brands and prescription Rx food and Rx medication products), which we offer at competitive prices, fast 1-2 day shipping and around-the-clock convenience that only e-commerce can offer.

Chewy’s commitment to customer service is the core of our brand, and our customers love us for it. We “WOW” pet parents through 24/7 assistance, advice and encouragement every day of the year. We make pet parenting easy with our convenient Autoship subscription program—which allows our customers to schedule their orders, so they never run out of their pet food, supplies and medication they need.

As an e-commerce company, product innovation drives our operations, and our team is constantly striving to find new and better ways to improve our customers’ experience. From an easy­-to­-navigate website and highly rated mobile apps, to detailed order tracking and personalized “Pet Profile” features, we are transforming the way pet parents shop.

Why Work With Us

We're proud to be one of the fastest growing e-commerce companies of all time.

With growth comes the exciting opportunity to be a part of a world-class organization of engineering, product, and design team members, responsible for driving our latest innovations and designing "out-of-the Chewy box" experiences.

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