Staff Software Engineer Vet Care

Job Description:

Our Opportunity

Chewy is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Practice Hub engineering team part of the Vet Clinics organization. The Practice Hub tech team is focused on building scalable reliable and intuitive prescription and marketplace platform with supporting APIs - for clinics to manage prescriptions approval and writing order prescription items for their clinic from multiple vendors and improve outcomes through datadriven insights and modern engineering practices. We empower veterinarians technicians and pet parents through innovative technology intelligent automation and seamless digital workflows.

As a Staff Engineer you will drive the architecture design and implementation of a suite of software services that support diverse operational workflows and deliver a fulfillment experience that delights our customers. This senior technical leadership role offers broad exposure across Chewys health products and services providing the opportunity to define the long-term engineering vision and practices that will scale and grow the Vet Care business.

About You

You excel at leading large engineering teams and guiding backend-focused architecture and design. Our systems leverage loosely coupled components real-time event processing AWS workflows a federated GraphQL API for unified data access and an aggregated data pipeline that ingests signals from predictive ML models and recommendation engines. You will work with technologies such as Java JavaScript GraphQL DynamoDB SNS/SQS AWS ECS/Fargate Kubernetes Kafka and AWS Lambda to build and scale the this role you will lead the creation and deployment of new prototypes applications systems and services that support the standardization optimization automation and process infrastructure of the Chewy Vet Care business and operations.

What Youll Do:

• Serve as the technical leader for your team driving project delivery system design and mentoring engineers across scrum teams.

• Design develop and implement solutions using a broad set of technologies with a strong emphasis on scalability low latency and resiliency.

• Conduct code and implementation reviews providing clear constructive feedback that enables engineers to build higher-quality services.

• Apply DevOps principles and best practices to deliver high-quality software with minimal technical debt.

• Build and maintain strong working relationships across all organizational levels and cross-functional teams.

• Own major components of the Chewy Vet Care platform spanning responsibilities across both development and operational domains.

What Youll Need:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Information Systems related field or equivalent experience.

• 15 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer and/or team lead.

• 10 years of experience building modern JavaScript applications and frameworks (React Vue Angular).

• 15 years of experience developing scalable distributed microservice applications using Java JavaScript and/or Spring Boot.

• Hands-on experience designing building and deploying scalable highly available systems.

• Ability to function as a hands-on engineercomfortable writing complex code and debugging challenging issues.

• Strong understanding of professional software engineering practices across the full development lifecycle including coding standards code reviews source control build processes testing and operations.

• Proficiency in core computer science fundamentals: object-oriented design data structures algorithms problem-solving and complexity analysis.

Bonus:

• Experience in e-commerce.

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or XP.

• Experience with configuration and deployment tools such as Terraform or Ansible along with knowledge of infrastructure networking compute storage and virtualization.

• Experience in data analysis or data mining within large-scale database environments.

• Experience with TypeScript and GraphQL.

• Familiarity with test-driven development and testing frameworks such as Jest and Cypress.

• Working knowledge of AWS services and cloud architecture.

• The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidates relevant experience education and work addition this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant. C08 positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.

We offer different types of insurance and benefits 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 .

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.

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