Software Engineer I

Software Engineer I

Boston, MA– IT – Full time

Job Description:

What you’ll do:

• Design and build software components of services and/or platforms.

• Utilize algorithms, data structures, and design patterns to produce efficient and performant code.

• Develop, extend, and debug code within the scope of existing tools and services.

• Execute on design and debug tasks.

• Troubleshoot root cause and solutions for bugs and production issues.

• Contribute to best practices for logging, testing, instrumentation, metrics, monitors, alerts, practices, and processes.

• Make meaningful contributions to existing service architecture, data architecture, dev-ops, and infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and public cloud services as part of a software development team.

• Participate in on-call rotations and operational excellence.

What you’ll need:

• Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related field and, plus 1 year of experience in a Software Developers or a related position/occupation.

• Alternate Education and Experience: Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related field and no experience in a Software Developers or a related position/occupation.

• Experience or coursework must include:

  • Software engineering;

  • Designing, building, and deploying scalable, highly available systems;

  • Writing code or debugging tricky issues;

  • Professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations;

  • Object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis;

  • Scrum, XP, or other agile methodologies;

  • Configuration and deployment management;

  • Technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization;

  • Performing data analytics;

  • AWS;

  • Core web technologies, including ES6+ JavaScript and React;

  • Experience designing, building, deploying, testing, and evolving responsive user interfaces;

  • Experience integrating with RESTFUL APIS using Java or a similar backend language;

  • Automated testing frameworks such as Karate, Playwright, Cypress, Selenium;

  • Developing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, TeamCity or comparable tools;

  • And experience with containerized systems such as Docker.

Employer: Chewy, Inc.

Office Address: 343 Congress Street, Floor 5, Boston, MA 02210

Other: Telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week.

The base salary range for this role is$131,082.00 to $163,000.00 per year

• The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, education, and work location. In 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 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. 

Chewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact CAAR@chewy.com.

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