Chewy · 6 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer
Bellevue, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$166K/yr - $266K/yr
10+ years expChewy is a leading e-commerce company focused on pet products, seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Sponsored Ads team. This role involves developing innovative advertising solutions and optimizing the technology that supports Chewy’s advertising efforts, while mentoring junior engineers and driving technical strategy.
E-CommercePetRetail
Responsibilities
You will participate in working with all of the top engineers at Chewy and other partner technology teams to evolve architecture direction of all development at Chewy
You will have responsibility over major components of Chewy’s architecture – both development and operational needs. You will be the go-to engineer for your part of the platform
You will be responsible for ensuring your systems are fully CICD and have responsibility of a plan to get to CICD if not there yet
Limiting technical debt will be your key objective
Hiring, training, mentoring and growing new talent will be a major part of your job as Chewy is growing all teams at a record pace
Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development
Conduct design and code reviews and improve on engineering rigor and standard
Debug production issues across services and tech stack
Continuously measure and optimize the performance, effectiveness, and uptime of backend services
You will participate in setting guidelines for evolving development practices, as well as mentoring junior engineers
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in an object-oriented language such as Java and relevant Java ecosystem like Spring Boot based applications
Be a Hands-on Staff technical engineering lead who can work with technical stakeholders, product managers, data scientists and help evolve the technical roadmap of this new display ads-initiatives
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
Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals – object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Experience with designing, building and deploying scalable, highly available systems
Experience with cloud & orchestration technologies (AWS Services, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
Have or (more importantly) be willing to learn deep domain knowledge in the area of retail e-commerce
Position may require travel
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree (MIS or CS preferred) or equivalent work experience
Prior experience in Display ads engineering systems will be a huge plus
Experience in e-commerce, display ads engineering systems
Experience with Scrum, XP or other agile methodologies a plus
Good communication skills with both technical and business audiences
Experience with data analysis/mining in large scale database environments a plus
Benefits
401k
New hire and annual equity grant
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
Unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval
Six paid holidays per year
Paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations
Company
Chewy
Chewy is a pet store that offers products, services, supplies, and prescriptions for pet parents and partners with online services.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
Chewy has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (250)
2024 (164)
2023 (223)
2022 (305)
2021 (189)
2020 (161)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$951MKey Investors
Lone Pine CapitalWells Fargo Capital FinanceBlackRock
2024-09-19Post Ipo Secondary· $500M
2019-06-13IPO
2017-04-18Acquired
Leadership Team
Michael Hyman
Vice President
Soma Bulusu
Vice President, Engineering and IT
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