Chewy is seeking a Software Engineer I to join an established technology team in Boston, MA (onsite). In this role, you will help enhance existing systems or build new software functionality, with responsibilities spanning component development, production debugging, and contributions to service and platform architecture.

Location

Boston, MA (onsite)

Salary

USD 92,500 - 160,000 per year

Summary

The Software Engineer I role focuses on designing and building software components, troubleshooting production issues, and supporting engineering best practices. You will work as part of a software development team contributing to architecture across services and data, as well as areas such as dev-ops, infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and public cloud services. The position also includes participation in on-call rotations and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

Apply algorithms, data structures, and design patterns to deliver efficient and performant code
Develop, extend, and debug code within the scope of the team’s existing tools and services
Execute on design and debug tasks
Troubleshoot root causes of bugs and production issues, and implement solutions
Contribute to team best practices for logging, testing, instrumentation, metrics, monitors, alerts, and related practices and processes
Support the team’s service architecture, data architecture, dev-ops, infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and public cloud services
Participate in on-call rotations and support operational excellence

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or similar (or equivalent experience)
1+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
Hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying scalable, highly available systems
Willingness to be hands-on, with a significant portion of time spent writing code or debugging complex issues
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices across the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Proficiency in computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Knowledge of cloud technologies
Knowledge of databases and operating systems
Ability to conduct root cause analysis for bugs and production issues and develop solutions
Proficiency in popular coding languages including Python, Java, and C++, plus frameworks or systems such as Git

Technologies

Python
Java
C++
Git
Cloud technologies
Databases
Operating systems
AWS

Benefits

401k and a new hire and annual equity grant
C08+ positions may also be eligible for an annual bonus
Medical/Rx
Vision
Dental
Life
Disability
Hospital indemnity
Critical illness
Accident
Parental leave
Family services benefits
Backup dependent care
Flexible spending accounts
Telemedicine
Pet adoption reimbursement
Employee assistance program
10% off pet insurance
20% off at Chewy.com
Exempt salary 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

Bonus

Exposure in e-commerce
Experience with Scrum, XP, or other agile methodologies
Experience with configuration and deployment management and hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization
Experience with data analysis or mining in large scale database environments (plus)
Experience with AWS

Software Engineer I

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