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Staff Full Stack Software Engineer - Experience Team (Discovery Technology)

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Our Opportunity:

Chewy is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to work on Chewy’s Discovery Platform and join our team. The Discovery team is responsible for the consumer journey across Chewy.com. This consumer journey is prominent across all of Chewy, enabling customers to discover products through browsing, search results and more. As a Senior member of the engineering team, you will own be responsible for the platform design, development and implementation. In this role, you will engage in iterative development, testing, and make contributions to the growth and development of one of Chewy's fastest growing areas. You will be involved in high-impact decisions and initiatives undertaken by the company, giving you a front row seat to shape Chewy’s growth.

To be successful in the role, you will need a proven track record of being a disruptor, innovator, and forward-looking engineer. Equally as important, you will need to operate at depth, understanding every detail of the organization’s product goals, as well as being able to “zoom out” to connect the dots across the technology stack. This energetic individual will partner with both technical and business teams on multiple initiatives and collaborate to deliver new features and enhancements. The role will have visibility in the product, technology & business organizations of Chewy.


What You’ll Do:

  • You will have responsibility over major components of Chewy’s search architecture and platform – both development and operational needs. You will be the go-to engineer for your part of the platform
  • Apply vision, strategy, and thought leadership to impact Chewy, at scale
  • Evolve and grow world-class Chewy search experience, serving millions of search queries
  • Immerse yourself in imagining and providing cutting-edge solutions to build high-performance, low-latency web and mobile-web experiences
  • Have a relentless focus on scalability, latency, performance robustness, and cost trade-offs -- especially those present in highly virtualized, elastic, cloud-based environments
  • Apply rigorous analysis to identify issues affecting customer experience and iterative improve features
  • Alongside a dedicated site reliability team to develop and support smooth 24x7 operation of our applications
  • Work with Engineering Leadership to drive best practices in software development, testing, and deployment
  • Hire, train, and mentor more junior engineers on the team


What You’ll Need:

  • 8+ years of experience designing, building, deploying, operating, scaling, and evolving distributed systems and high-volume transaction application in a 24/7 environment
  • 7+ years of industry experience in software development in one or more of Javascript, Typescript, React, Next.js
  • Must possess a bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
  • Passion for optimizing systems
  • Solid communication skills and ability to work well in a team are critical
  • AWS development experience
  • Experience in Agile/Scrum development process
  • Experience in Web/Product search for Information Retrieval or developing in Open-Source Lucene
  • Position will require travel between Seattle and Boston at least once per calendar year

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 [email protected].


If you have a question regarding your application, please contact [email protected].


Chewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members.


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What are Chewy Perks + Benefits

Chewy Benefits Overview

We offer competitive salaries and 401k, unlimited time off, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, in addition to wellness programs, online communities, and resources for improved physical and mental health... enabling you to be your best self - in and outside of work. With mentorship programs, employee resource groups, cross-functional job trainings, events, and customized development tracks for advancement, we're proud to help develop and promote our team members from within.

True to our business, we're pet-friendly and have fun pet-related perks like Paw-ternity leave for new pup parents and Chewy employee discounts. We offer countless volunteer opportunities, recreational club teams, company outings, happy hours, and team events to enable you to bond with fellow Chewtopians and have some fun!

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Pair programming
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
We're currently 100% remote due to caution and care for the health & well-being of our team. Post-pandemic, we plan to operate in a combination of onsite and remote, with logistics still being defined
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Highly diverse management team
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
We offer a commuter transit, parking, and dependent care FSA.
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Performance bonus
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Pet friendly
Recreational clubs
Chewy sponsors office sports leagues year-round.
Relocation assistance
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Cross-functional lunch and learns.
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks

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