Our Opportunity:

Chewy is seeking a talented and motivated Software Engineer within the Payment Service Platform Team. As a Software Engineer, you will assist in innovating, designing, and building services and frameworks to provide solutions for several business and technology initiatives. At Chewy, Software Engineers are constantly innovating, developing frameworks, establishing governance, and defining the architecture for our next-generation platforms. They understand our business goals, collaborate with other leaders, and innovate rapidly, delivering high-quality and high-value functionality.

This role will allow you to use your technical expertise to accelerate the adoption of the best engineering practices while maintaining knowledge of industry innovations, trends, and practices. You will help drive innovation, scalability, and maintainability while working with our highly skilled engineering teams.

What You'll Do:

• Design, develop and implement large-scale distributed systems with large volumes of data focusing on scalability, latency, and fault tolerance.
• Develop Systems / Component architectures and APIs for a rapidly scaling platform while ensuring successful product delivery and operational excellence.
• Bring an expert understanding of the systems, and their dependencies, have the ability to forecast and mitigate challenges effectively.
• Be the expert in design principles, service-oriented architecture, and developing applications of scale in the cloud while maintaining knowledge of industry innovations, trends, and practices.
• Represent the Payment Service Platforms team in front of cross-functional business and technical initiatives.
• Debug critical hard-to-solve production issues across services and tech stack
• Continuously measure and optimize the performance, effectiveness, and uptime of services.
• Display excellent verbal and written communication and be able to convey dissenting opinions constructively, particularly in written communications

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree (Computer Science or similar technical field of study preferred), or equivalent work experience
• 4+ years of experience developing services with technologies like Spring/Spring Boot/Spring Data ecosystem
• Proven experience working with modern SQL/NoSQL databases
• Strong analytical abilities and a strong intellectual curiosity
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong time management and organization skills
• Ability to balance multiple priorities at a given time
• Must be team-oriented and have a customer service mindset
• Self-driven, able to work independently or within a team setting

Bonus:

• Strong engineering background building products that are eCommerce scale
• Experience with AWS Cloud. 
• Experience in building distributed, highly available and high performing systems