Software Engineer III - Backend
Software Engineer III - Backend
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Job Description
Our Opportunity:
Chewys Sponsored Ads business is growing rapidly and were looking for experienced Senior Backend Engineers to help drive the evolution of our advertising platform. This role focuses on building scalable high-performance systems that power key ad capabilities for both advertisers. Youll lead backend development efforts mentor junior engineers and play a critical role in shaping one of Chewys fastest-growing revenue streams.
About You:
As an experienced Software Engineer with a background in backend and full-stack development. You excel in working on backend services with technologies like Python Java 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 Chewys Sponsored Ads platform enables vendors to promote their products on-site and offsite significantly contributing to Chewys revenue growth. The Ads Demand team owns the frontend and backend of the Advertiser portal which enables advertisers create manage and optimize their ad campaigns. We are based in Boston and Seattle.
What Youll Do:
- Lead project delivery and system architecture for backend services while mentoring junior engineers and promoting engineering excellence across the team.
- Design and implement scalable low-latency services in Java and Python powering core advertising capabilities such as auction processing targeting and performance tracking.
- Develop robust and well-documented RESTful APIs to support campaign management reporting and integration with advertiser-facing tools.
- Build resilient systems with strong observability bringing to bear automated testing monitoring and CI/CD pipelines using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
- Collaborate closely with product managers data scientists and fellow engineers to build systems that support real-time and asynchronous workflows.
- Drive technical design reviews conduct code reviews and lead initiatives to improve platform reliability performance and scalability.
- Take ownership of project estimation and delivery partnering with Team Members to deliver high-impact features that improve the advertiser and customer experience on the Chewy Ads platform.
What Youll Need:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 10 years of experience as a Software Engineer with a strong focus on backend development using modern languages and frameworks including Java Python and SpringBoot
- Proven experience building scalable highly available systems.
- Experience integrating AI/ML models working alongside Data Science team.
- Ninja coding and debugging skills
- Passion for data-driven development observability and metrics.
- 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.
- Experience with full stack development
- Familiarity with AWS cloud services including serverless computing data processing and storage solutions.
Employment Type
Full Time
