Staff Software Engineer - Front End
Staff Software Engineer - Front End
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Job Description
Our Opportunity:
Chewy is seeking a Staff Software Engineer Front-End to join our fast-paced customer-first Sponsored Ads team. This role is instrumental in launching innovative customer-facing products crafted to delight and engage Chewys advertising partners while scaling our advertising technology and strengthening brand partnerships. As a senior member of the team youll help craft build and deliver intuitive performant and scalable front-end experiences that power ad creation campaign management creative tools and performance reporting across Chewys digital ecosystem.
Sponsored Ads at Chewy builds a situation where everyone is happy ecosystemoffering pet parents relevant product options and deals while enabling brand partners to improve transparency and reach through targeted placements. Advertising is a fast-growing strategically important component of Chewys e-commerce platform and a key driver of incremental revenue.
In this role youll leverage your deep expertise in front-end engineering to lead the development of engaging web experiences for both advertisers and internal users. As an early member of the team youll be part of shaping the technical strategy owning core areas of the system architecture and influencing the user experience across Chewys retail platform and advertiser portal. You will also help lead the team through ambiguous technical decisions and play a critical role in establishing front-end engineering best practices.
This is a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of a greenfield initiative delivering technology-driven business impact in a high-growth area of the company.
What Youll Do:
- Serve as a senior technical contributor on the Sponsored Ads engineering team focused on front-end architecture and implementation.
- Own and lead design development testing and deployment of high-quality front-end applications and features.
- Work closely with Product UX and Back-End Engineering to build seamless performant and accessible user experiences.
- Champion engineering excellence by writing clean modular and maintainable code with a strong emphasis on testing and performance.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers through design reviews code reviews and pair programming sessions.
- Decompose sophisticated problems into manageable components that can be driven incrementally and at scale.
- Help establish and implement best practices for front-end development including performance optimization accessibility and responsive design.
- Participate in sprint planning technical design sessions and retrospectives to improve development processes and team velocity and give to team culture by fostering collaboration innovation and accountability.
What Youll Need:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Information Systems or related fieldor equivalent industry experience.
- 10 years of experience developing front-end applications using modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React Vue Angular).
- Demonstrated expertise in building large-scale high-quality customer-facing web applications.
- Strong fundamentals in computer science including data structures algorithms and object-oriented design.
- Hands-on experience with TypeScript front-end state management (e.g. Redux Zustand) and component-based architectures.
- Proficiency with HTML5 CSS3 adaptable design and front-end performance tuning.
- Experience with GraphQL RESTful APIs and client-side data handling.
- Proficient in front-end testing tools and frameworks (e.g. Jest Cypress).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to articulate sophisticated ideas clearly and concisely.
- Ability to lead through ambiguity set technical direction and influence architecture decisions.
- Position may require occasional travel.
Bonus:
- Experience in e-commerce or advertising technology domains and familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or XP.
- Experience with AWS cloud services and infrastructure automation (e.g. Terraform Ansible).
- Familiarity with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Exposure to server-side rendering (SSR) or static site generation (SSG) concepts.
- Passion for pets and Chewys mission is a plus!
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
