Principal Software Engineer - Recommendations Team
Our Opportunity:
Do you want to actually do system design? Do actually want to see your ideas, your code, your experiment really affect the business? If so, the Chewy Discovery Tech team is hiring!
We use the best machine learning techniques and continuously test the outcomes to simplify product discovery for pet parents looking for their pet needs on Chewy.com. Our exceptional multi-disciplinary team of data scientists, data engineers, software/front-end engineers, and product managers work together to power personalized recommendations and product discovery for pet parents.
Our mission is to make Chewy a trusted partner who meets pet parents’ needs in an intuitively personalized and friction-free way. Our team has single-threaded ownership of the space allowing us to decide on impactful products that we can experiment with, measure with metrics, and deliver to maximize value to our customers.
We are hiring Principal Software Engineers. In this position, you will build a robust, resilient, and scalable platform that supports real-time machine learning applications. The goal is to make it extremely easy to build, deploy, and monitor data-science models in production. Your work will directly impact millions of customers who shop for their furry family members every day. Engineers in this team focus on learning, and on working together as a team to deliver technical products that our customers love.
What you'll do:
- You will partner & influence top engineers at Chewy to build reliable, scalable, and resilient micro-services to build machine learning applications for Chewy.com.
- You will work with product team to build “platform as a product” – not just an infrastructure.
- You will build architecture that scales well for offline, online, and personalized ML models.
- Conduct design and code reviews and raise the bar on engineering rigor and standards.
- Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
- Creates the technical roadmap for the platform while contributing to the overall Engineering roadmap.
- Work with a team of awesome people who are passionate about personalization.
What you'll need:
- 10+ years of experience designing, building, deploying, operating, scaling, testing, and evolving web services and high-volume transaction application in a 24/7 environment.
- 10+ years of industry experience in software development in Java or other object-oriented programming languages.
- Must possess a bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.
- Passion for writing code and delivering working software iteratively; You’ll spend significant amount of time creating frameworks to help the business/teams build intelligent services.
- Strong in CS fundamentals: OO/System Design, data Structures, algorithms, problem solving, complexity analysis.
- Experience with nodejs, Sprint Boot, docker containers, CI/CD, and developing and deploying RESTful services in production.
- Experience with AWS Services (ECS, DynamoDB, Redis, Kinesis, etc).
- Desire to learn and pickup new technologies easily.
Bonus:
- Experience in e-commerce building personalized applications.
- Experience with ML Services in AWS (SageMaker, Personalize).
- Experience building platform (like SageMaker) that can host ML applications.
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